Or if your in Australia, a cockatoo. I've had to rerun my coax twice over the past 12 months ðŸ˜
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 9:18 AM, William Beam <wb...@gci.net> wrote: > A nearby thunderstorm could have taken out the preamp in the antenna. > > 73 Bill Beam > NL7F > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" > To: > Cc: > Sent:Wed, 12 Aug 2015 23:29:45 +0200 > Subject:Re: [time-nuts] Has my TBolt gone south ? > > 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 -- 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. > -- -- Teach your kids Science, or somebody else will :/ ja...@ball.net vk2...@google.com <vk2f...@google.com> callsign: vk2vjb _______________________________________________ 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.