Re: [time-nuts] What position is measured?

2010-09-08 Thread Pierpaolo Bernardi
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 02:16, jimlux jim...@earthlink.net wrote: Mark J. Blair wrote: On Sep 7, 2010, at 6:30 AM, jimlux wrote: Yes.. except that the cable's physical and electrical length *do* vary with temperature, so if you're looking at the gnat's eyelash sort of thing, you need to take

Re: [time-nuts] What position is measured?

2010-09-08 Thread Bob Camp
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] What position is measured? On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 02:16, jimlux jim...@earthlink.net wrote: Mark J. Blair wrote: On Sep 7, 2010, at 6:30 AM, jimlux wrote: Yes.. except that the cable's physical

Re: [time-nuts] What position is measured?

2010-09-08 Thread Rob Kimberley
...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Pierpaolo Bernardi Sent: 08 September 2010 11:36 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] What position is measured? On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 02:16, jimlux jim...@earthlink.net wrote: Mark J. Blair wrote: On Sep 7, 2010, at 6:30

Re: [time-nuts] What position is measured?

2010-09-08 Thread jimlux
Tom Holmes wrote: One other delay contributor would appear to be processing delay in the receiver, which thus begs the question of how the PPS signal is actually synchronized to the GPS system. The GPS nav messages is synchronized to the seconds, so it's a matter of making sure the output

Re: [time-nuts] What position is measured?

2010-09-08 Thread jimlux
Pierpaolo Bernardi wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 02:16, jimlux jim...@earthlink.net wrote: Mark J. Blair wrote: On Sep 7, 2010, at 6:30 AM, jimlux wrote: Yes.. except that the cable's physical and electrical length *do* vary with temperature, so if you're looking at the gnat's eyelash sort

Re: [time-nuts] What position is measured?

2010-09-08 Thread Tom Holmes
City, OH EM79 -Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of jimlux Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 9:42 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] What position is measured? Tom

Re: [time-nuts] What position is measured?

2010-09-08 Thread jimlux
Tom Holmes wrote: Thanks, Jim. I assume that neither the satellite nor the receiver knows what the variation in the light time delay is, so it must be small enough to allow the claimed nanosecond accuracy of the PPS edge. Well.. that's the difference between a L1 only and a L1/L2 receiver.

Re: [time-nuts] What position is measured?

2010-09-08 Thread Bob Camp
[mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Tom Holmes Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 10:19 AM To: 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement' Subject: Re: [time-nuts] What position is measured? Thanks, Jim. I assume that neither the satellite nor the receiver knows what

Re: [time-nuts] What position is measured?

2010-09-08 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 09/08/2010 04:51 PM, jimlux wrote: Tom Holmes wrote: Thanks, Jim. I assume that neither the satellite nor the receiver knows what the variation in the light time delay is, so it must be small enough to allow the claimed nanosecond accuracy of the PPS edge. Well.. that's the difference

Re: [time-nuts] What position is measured?

2010-09-08 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 09/08/2010 05:34 PM, Bob Camp wrote: Hi Actually they do know a bit about the light delay. They include that data in the information the stat's broadcast. The data is fairly coarse grained. I posted some links a week or so back that go into all the grubby details. Coarse grain is certainly

[time-nuts] What position is measured?

2010-09-07 Thread Peter Krengel
Hi nuts, have got some interesting question from friends. They asked What coordinates are measured and registrated by a GPS. Is it the position of the antenna, it could be 100m (300ft) away from me or is it the position of the GPS RX as this is the position of the µC where signals are

Re: [time-nuts] What position is measured?

2010-09-07 Thread jmfranke
...@gmx.de Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 1:57 AM To: time-nuts@febo.com Subject: [time-nuts] What position is measured? Hi nuts, have got some interesting question from friends. They asked What coordinates are measured and registrated by a GPS. Is it the position of the antenna, it could

Re: [time-nuts] What position is measured?

2010-09-07 Thread jimlux
Peter Krengel wrote: Hi nuts, have got some interesting question from friends. They asked What coordinates are measured and registrated by a GPS. Is it the position of the antenna, it could be 100m (300ft) away from me or is it the position of the GPS RX as this is the position of the µC

Re: [time-nuts] What position is measured?

2010-09-07 Thread Mark J. Blair
On Sep 7, 2010, at 6:30 AM, jimlux wrote: Another analogy is that if you had a machine that recorded all the signals, mounted right at the antenna, and then carried the recording half way around the world, and then ran the recording into a receiver, it would give you the position of the

Re: [time-nuts] What position is measured?

2010-09-07 Thread jmfranke
Exactly, well put. John WA4WDL -- From: Mark J. Blair n...@nf6x.net Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 12:24 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] What position is measured

Re: [time-nuts] What position is measured?

2010-09-07 Thread Bob Camp
and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] What position is measured? On Sep 7, 2010, at 6:30 AM, jimlux wrote: Another analogy is that if you had a machine that recorded all the signals, mounted right at the antenna, and then carried the recording half way around the world, and then ran

Re: [time-nuts] What position is measured?

2010-09-07 Thread Brooke Clarke
Hi Mark: Exactly. Have Fun, Brooke Clarke http://www.PRC68.com Mark J. Blair wrote: On Sep 7, 2010, at 6:30 AM, jimlux wrote: Another analogy is that if you had a machine that recorded all the signals, mounted right at the antenna, and then carried the recording half way around the

Re: [time-nuts] What position is measured?

2010-09-07 Thread Didier Juges
@febo.com Reply-To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] What position is measured? On Sep 7, 2010, at 6:30 AM, jimlux wrote: Another analogy is that if you had a machine that recorded all the signals, mounted right at the antenna

Re: [time-nuts] What position is measured?

2010-09-07 Thread Hal Murray
Does this mean that while the antenna feedline cable length does not influence the measured position (at the phase center of the antenna), and it does not influence the accuracy of a disciplined frequency reference output, it does introduce an error into the absolute time output (i.e., adding

Re: [time-nuts] What position is measured?

2010-09-07 Thread jimlux
Mark J. Blair wrote: On Sep 7, 2010, at 6:30 AM, jimlux wrote: Another analogy is that if you had a machine that recorded all the signals, mounted right at the antenna, and then carried the recording half way around the world, and then ran the recording into a receiver, it would give you the

Re: [time-nuts] What position is measured?

2010-09-07 Thread Mark J. Blair
On Sep 7, 2010, at 5:16 PM, jimlux wrote: Yes.. except that the cable's physical and electrical length *do* vary with temperature, so if you're looking at the gnat's eyelash sort of thing, you need to take that into account. Maybe 10 ppm/degree, so a 20 meter run will change a bit less

Re: [time-nuts] What position is measured?

2010-09-07 Thread Tom Holmes
-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Hal Murray Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 5:33 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] What position is measured? Does this mean that while the antenna feedline cable length does not influence the measured