Hi Mike:
For quite a while I was heavily into "chirp" transmissions. These are HF ionosphere radio transmissions that sweep from
2 to 30 MHz at 100 kHz/sec.
In order to "tune" the radio to a specific station (you can not tune by frequency) you need to know the start time
schedule for that specific station (time nuts content).
When GPS became popular the transmitters switched to GPS.
http://www.prc68.com/I/RCS-5A.shtml
You can use a pulse of RF to calibrate the time delay through your HF receiver to get a more accurate time of reception
value. That helps because with a GPS synchronized transmitter you can determine it's great circle distance from you.
Under some conditions you can see a transmission going around the Earth 2 or 3 times.
In a similar way if you used a pair non amplified versions of a GPS antenna back to back you could determine the time
delay of the pair and then divide by two.
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Have Fun,
Brooke Clarke
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Le 29 juin 2016 à 22:18, Poul-Henning Kamp <p...@phk.freebsd.dk> a écrit :
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In message <20160629192850.19c29406...@ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net>, Hal Mu
rray writes:
At one point they were looking into making a GPS time receiver where the
cable length calibration would be built-in.
How would you do that?
TDR ?
If it wasn't behind a choke, the inrush current to the antenna
preamp power filtering capacitor could be measured, but the choke
ruins that.
The trouble is how to do it without frying the antenna preamp...
Seriously...
GPS antennas and receivers are cheap, I would just use two GPS antennas
with a known difference in cable-length.
Sounds simple, but even after a days reflection I don’t see how you
find the complete path delay. You would get the cable delay (OPs concern)
provided they were the same antenna/cable type combinations, but not delay
induced by the antenna electronics. From another post that delay seems to be
non-negligable. I find it curious that antenna manafacturers don’t seem to give
this parameter. I looked at some datasheets on Trimble and Leica sites but they
don’t have it.
As for me, I measure cable delay by injecting a 1PPS into it through a T and
for the RG174 attached to the patch antennas, just sacrificed one by cutting
the head off and measuring that.
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