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Bob > On Aug 12, 2015, at 5:29 PM, Alberto di Bene <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 8/12/2015 8:29 PM, Hal Murray wrote: > >> How long did you wait after turning it on? >> How good is your antenna position? >> Did you tell it to remember the location after a survey finished? >> >> If it's been off for a few weeks, it doesn't know where the satellites are. >> To get started, it has to find one by a brute force search. With a good >> antenna, that doesn't take very long. Then it takes 15 minutes to collect >> the satellite info. With a poor antenna location, it takes longer, maybe a >> lot longer. > > Thanks Hal for your answer. > > My TB now is switched on since yesterday, but no satellites are acquired... > Last time I switched it on, it worked, and, even after a long off period, it > did take not more than > a few minutes to acquire the first satellite. > > Yesterday, after I saw that no satellites did show up in LH, I issued the ! > command to do a cold reset, > just to see if it could be of help. > > My antenna is a timing antenna, on the chimney of my house, completely free > from obstacles. > There is the possibilities that a thunderstorm has broken its small mast, > tomorrow I will check. > This seems to be the only reasonable cause of the malfunction... the TB > accepts commands > and sends back status info. Unless its GPS receiver has developed a fault... > > 73 Alberto I2PHD > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
