Hi Guido and mc235960, It stopped doing it all of a sudden and is now accepting the date properly. I did numerous CPU resets on it and one power down/power up and it still did it. Telling the unit the date was old (1/1/1994) took fine so I kept increasing the year 1999, 2000, 2005, 2015 and finally back to 2013 and it stayed ok.
The Motorola @@ea command doesn't have the GPS week in it so I'm not sure how the unit got where it was, but it does seem related to that somehow. I did try to send it 2050 to see how far it would go because the Motorola spec ends at 2017. Perhaps this triggered a "fix gps date" function in eeprom that added to the date to try to correct for the number of week rollover issue? Thanks, Alan -----Original Message----- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Guido Küppers Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 1:25 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] RFTGm-II-Rb - can you gps discipline it without the XO module? Hi Alan, I haven't seen this behaviour yet, but then I have RFTG shut off for a couple of months since. 7168 is dividible by 7 and the result is 1024. You know the gps week wraps over from 1023 (0x3ff) to 0. Perhaps what you see is the consequence of some software workaround of this problem, in other words the RFTG thinks a gps week rollover must have happened and tries to correct the date. Have fun Guido Von Samsung Mobile gesendet Alan Kamrowski II <ala...@earthlink.net> hat geschrieben: Hi Guido, Do you have any idea why the unit interprets the date 7168 (0x1c00) days into the future? If I send it today's date in the correct Motorola format, this is how many days it adds to it. If I change the date to try another, it does the same thing. Any idea why? I can correct for it by subtracting 0x1c00 days before sending it, this just seems very odd. Thanks, Alan _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
