Re: [time-nuts] GPS tick all over the place. Suspect aurora effects

2012-01-26 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Tom Van Baak said the following on 01/26/2012 08:24 PM: google for "Space Weather Effects on GPS" there's a presentaton by Thomas Bogdan at the Space Weather Prediction Center that gives you some numbers to work with. 10s of meters effects aren't unusual. There's a wonderful example of GPS ti

Re: [time-nuts] GPS tick all over the place. Suspect aurora effects

2012-01-26 Thread Tom Van Baak
google for "Space Weather Effects on GPS" there's a presentaton by Thomas Bogdan at the Space Weather Prediction Center that gives you some numbers to work with. 10s of meters effects aren't unusual. There's a wonderful example of GPS timing and space weather in a paper by fellow time-nuts R

Re: [time-nuts] GPS tick all over the place. Suspect aurora effects

2012-01-26 Thread Chuck Harris
You might try compressing the file with something like 7z, or zip. That should reduce it about 10x in size. -Chuck Harris paul swed wrote: Sent u the file directly timenuts says to big a file and fair enough On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 6:40 PM, paul swed wrote: Sun of a gun I could save it as a

Re: [time-nuts] GPS tick all over the place. Suspect aurora effects

2012-01-26 Thread paul swed
From: paul swed >>> Sender: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com >>> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:15:27 >>> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement< >>> time-nuts@febo.com> >>> Reply-To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement >

Re: [time-nuts] GPS tick all over the place. Suspect aurora effects

2012-01-26 Thread paul swed
> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:15:27 > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement< > time-nuts@febo.com> > Reply-To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] GPS tick all over the place. Suspect aurora > effects

Re: [time-nuts] GPS tick all over the place. Suspect aurora effects

2012-01-26 Thread lists
measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] GPS tick all over the place. Suspect aurora effects Yup just the first time I have seen the pps this crazy But as we speak its settling down. So it was an effect for about an hour. Regards Paul. On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Jim Lux wrote: > On 1

Re: [time-nuts] GPS tick all over the place. Suspect aurora effects

2012-01-26 Thread paul swed
Yup just the first time I have seen the pps this crazy But as we speak its settling down. So it was an effect for about an hour. Regards Paul. On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Jim Lux wrote: > On 1/26/12 2:08 PM, paul swed wrote: > >> We are talking parts in the -9th but I am using a hp3801 and

Re: [time-nuts] GPS tick all over the place. Suspect aurora effects

2012-01-26 Thread Jim Lux
On 1/26/12 2:08 PM, paul swed wrote: We are talking parts in the -9th but I am using a hp3801 and the general software that lets you see the 1 sec variation. I had never seen this behavior before and thought the oscillator must be in trouble. Measured it against a local RB and it was stable. Then

[time-nuts] GPS tick all over the place. Suspect aurora effects

2012-01-26 Thread paul swed
We are talking parts in the -9th but I am using a hp3801 and the general software that lets you see the 1 sec variation. I had never seen this behavior before and thought the oscillator must be in trouble. Measured it against a local RB and it was stable. Then it hit me, could this actually be the