> Very Important note, The above is NOT available directly from > LadyHeather's > ADEV plots (at least not yet - Mark is a revision coming?), > What one needs to do is to log the Tbolt's Freq and Phase data at the 1 sec > rate and then use that data with an external ADEV program such as Ulrich's > Plotter or John's TimeLab. > Note for TimeLab users. LH adds some extra comment data lines in it's log > file that need to be manually removed before using the data file with some > versions of TimeLab.
I had a 'native' Thunderbolt driver in the old TI.EXE program that I could probably bring across to TimeLab without much trouble. It didn't work with the COM port directly, but with a Heather TCP/IP server. That means that it takes some extra work to set up since you have to run two programs, but it also means that you can run LH and TimeLab on the same Thunderbolt at the same time, with no need to monkey around with logfiles. I'll have a look at it to see if I can bring that code back from cold storage. > . . . > If you want even more accuracy, watch the PHASE change over a few days. > This > can check your best Primary Cs standard's frequency. Eventually a GPS clock will reach something like a "flicker floor" where the ADEV trace flattens out and stops decreasing over time. I don't really know where the flicker floor is on a Thunderbolt-class clock versus where it will be on a local cesium standard. The sigma-tau statistics for the more common HP 5061-era clocks were never really specified for periods more than a day, while at the same time, there don't seem to have been many long-term tests run on Thunderbolts and other GPS clocks to see where their performance flattens out. It would be good to see some more long-term trials. Said, do you have data for the long-term (multi-week) floors of the various Jackson Labs GPSDOs? Intuitively, I don't believe a GPSDO can outperform an HP 5071A-era clock over periods greater than a few hours. But it may be reasonable to benchmark 5061A-class standards with a good GPSDO setup. We really need some more data from trials lasting multiple weeks. -- john _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
