Hi Jim,
On 12/18/2011 01:25 AM, Jim Lux wrote:
On 12/17/11 2:56 PM, Magnus Danielson wrote:
On 12/17/2011 09:57 PM, Jim Lux wrote:
L1 C/A
But the real question isn't how to generate the signals (that's straight
forward).. it's "how good does the oscillator have to be" to effectively
test the receiver, in the sense of measuring it's timing performance.
A decent OCXO should be able to pull it off. Your receiver should
long-term follow your OCXO. Take one of these 40 dollar rubidiums if you
are worried.
Any drift of a good OCXO will be way within the bandwidth of the GPS
channels. This drift would show up as added drift of the GPS oscillator,
which is then being tracked and compensated.
that is precisely what I was thinking.. I was just wondering if anyone
had run across a reason why it wouldn't be the case. (short of actually
doing the no doubt tedious analysis)
I can offer you several evidence of this:
1) None of the GPS simulators come with very special oscillator, but you
may hook up your cesium if you need to for some reason.
2) A typical channel bandwidth typically measures in the Hz range.
Tracking drift would not be too hard.
3) While we consider for all practical matter GPS time is stable and the
GPS internal reference has incorrect frequency complete with drift, the
GPS receiver uses the time-solution of the position to continuously
correct the time, frequency and drift of the TCXO (or OCXO). Now, if we
move a little of frequency error and drift over to the "GPS time" of the
GPS simulator the receiver won't be able to say as long as the GPS
simulator reference isn't drifting like a maniac so that the correction
routines can't keep up with it.
So, there is my rough analysis for you.
Cheers,
Magnus
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