Chris: If you did a cold reset I *think* it should have already done that, you would have known because it would have said conducting survey or something like that as opposed to "Overdetermined clock". To be safe and force it,use the following keystrokes in LH
S and then P -=Bryan=- > Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 04:58:39 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] A few questions about Tboltmon > > Hi Bryan, > > > > > I didn't do that. Is this something accessible under one of the tabs? > > > > > Chris > > > > — > Sent from Mailbox > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 5:21 AM, Bryan _ <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Did you do 48 hour precision first survey first to get an accurate > > Lat/Long/ altitude?. You will probably need to start with a cold reset to > > erase any previously stored data and then perform the survey. > > -=Bryan=- > >> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 19:16:23 -0700 > >> From: [email protected] > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: [time-nuts] A few questions about Tboltmon > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> > >> I got my new Thunderbolt up and running this past weekend but I have a few > >> questions. I understand Lady Heather is a better program, and I have > >> downloaded it. However right now I am trying to get things right with > >> Tboltmon first. I had used it with my previous GPSDO, a Starloc II. I hate > >> to say but the Starlic just worked, so I didn't pay much attention to > >> Tboltmon other than to see that I was seeing satellites. Please forgive me > >> if some of the questions may sound simplistic, but I'm sort of new to > >> being a time nut. > >> The Thunderbolt is brand new in package. I purchased a Power One open > >> frame supply from EBay that was also new old stock. Before connecting it > >> to the Thunderbolt, I went ahead and ordered new electrolytic caps from > >> Mouser and spent last Friday night recapping the Power One box. I measured > >> the outputs with a DMM to make sure I had 5 V, -12 V and 12 V. > >> Noticing that in my old antenna location I could now only see 1-2 > >> satellites (trees have grown a bit) I moved the antenna to the roof of my > >> house, attached to a plumbing vent pipe, with a completely open view of > >> the sky here on top of a mountain in Tennessee. > >> > >> > >> Here's what I am noticing: > >> To start with I simply turned on the Thunderbolt on Saturday morning > >> without doing a warm or cold reset. Within a few minutes, I was seeing six > >> or seven satellites, with the SV boxes lit up green with various numbers > >> which I assume are satellite ID numbers. When I woke up Sunday I was down > >> to seeing only two satellites. The numbers listed were different than the > >> ones I saw before I went to bed Saturday. But when I unplugged the AC > >> power from the Thunderbolt and plugged it back in, I was back to six > >> satellites. > >> I had thought that the GPS satellites I am able to see from my location > >> are fixed 24/7. Do they move and different satellites come into view with > >> rotation of the earth? > >> I did a warm reset when I got up at 4:45 this morning and when I got home, > >> four satellites were still green on Tboltmon. About an hour ago I went > >> ahead and did a cold reset. > >> I now have 6 satellites where the SV is green, and one with a yellow SV > >> with a value of 7.0. > >> All critical alarms are green, and all minor alarms are green except > >> position questionable which is yellow. That has been yellow since > >> Saturday. > >> Under the Disciplining status, Mode is (0) Normal and Activity is (0) > >> Phase Locking. > >> The Timing Outputs are all over the place and have been since Saturday. > >> Twenty minutes ago I got: > >> PPS -106588.28 ns GPS > >> 10 MHz 166.08 ppb > >> > >> > >> So far today I have gotten the following ppb readings: > >> -41.48 > >> 374.30 > >> 0.48 > >> 0.70 > >> > >> > >> Should the Timing output variance concern me? > >> > >> > >> Thanks in advance for any help or advice. > >> > >> > >> Chris > >> KD4PBJ > >> Monteagle, TN > >> > >> > >> > >> — > >> Sent from Mailbox > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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. > _______________________________________________ > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
