[email protected] said: > As I think about the geometry of satellite position and path length, it > seems to me that, since the geometry is determined by the antenna position > and not the receiver position, additional antenna cable introduces a fixed > delay value and hence a fixed constant that gets added to each path > regardless of direction. It seems to me that this would produce a much > "fuzzier" solution to position and/or variation in timing. Knowing cable > length and propagation velocity, would allow the software to subtract that > constant from all ranges and thus provide a more correct position and time > solution. Is this not the case? Does it do something simpler but "good > enough"?
If you just do the normal calculations, you get the location of the antenna as though you were there a while ago. If you know the delay in the cable, you can correct the time. There is no way to correct the position. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ 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.
