Ulrich Bangert wrote: > Hi Didier, > > you may use the DRIFT section of the graphic editor of PLOTTER to remove > a phase drift due to a constant frequency offset as seen in this data, > with the result that you get more "visual resolution" out of it, as in > the attached PDF. > > 73 de Ulrich, DF6JB > > Ulrich,
I ran the OCXO with the new antenna location overnight, except that the laptop went to sleep some time in the night, so I have lost several hours of data, which may explain the sudden slope change in the plot below (I need to save timestamps I guess). However, the remaining data is good I think. There was no sudden noise, and about 5 phase jumps due to the OCXO drifting during the observation period. I downloaded the latest version of Plotter (10-27) and it's all there. I was able to quickly remove the phase jumps when the OCXO drifted past the divided down period, and then remove the remaining slow drift. What a nice piece of software! (even the menu now has a *normal* File->Open :-) The latest plots are at the usual place: http://www.ko4bb.com/Test_Equipment/HP10811-GPS_10-29-2.png http://www.ko4bb.com/Test_Equipment/HP10811-GPS_10-29-2_Allan.png Now that the data collection method seems to be getting close, I wonder how I should use the data, and what it means. The Allan deviation seems to taper around e-10 at 1000 seconds, then it looks like it wants to keep getting lower. As a reminder, this is the HP10811 against the GPS receiver. I am not sure what I should expect? Didier PS: I am still planning to measure ambient temperature at the same time as I collect TI, via the GPIB, using a HP 3478A voltmeter and a thermistor. This way, I should be able to correlate frequency changes and temperature changes. I assume I can tell Plotter to ignore the temperature field or display it with its own scaling. Should I use a specific character as field delimiter? (such as a comma, or just spaces?) (In the short term, temperature data will be thermistor values, until I write the code to convert in degrees. ) Also, if I use time stamps, should I use field delimiter between the time stamp and the data? What is the time stamps are discontinuous (as if the laptop falls asleep again), will that mess up Plotter? _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
