Hi Bob,

On 13/03/2019 1:30 am, Bob kb8tq wrote:
Sorry if this is an ongoing / somewhat random dump of a bunch of things … I am 
not doing the
same sort of thing you are doing. That makes a lot of this a bit less focused 
than maybe
it could be.

Thanks for your suggestions - they have been most helpful.  It was just when the discussion turned to Maser clocks and interferometry that I was concerned that the discussion had "dropped out of lock and drifting with many ppm" :-)

I simply want to know about the behaviour of the GPS 16 HVS under no-lock conditions.   I need that information to optimise a fail-safe mechanism in my software.  Basically, if there is a loss of lock I need to account for that.   In my application, it doesn't matter if the GPS unit drops out of lock as I can re-schedule the timing event to a slightly later time when a valid fix is present.  All that matters is that I have an accurate time-stamp.  It doesn't matter if that time-stamp is re-scheduled for a minute or two later.   However, if I know the drift of the 1 PPS output under invalid fix conditions I might not need to reschedule the timing event at all as long as the (tdrift/dt) * (how long the invalid fix has lasted) < 1 ms.  The value of tdrift/dt is the key to implementing this.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Cheers

Steve

HawkRAO


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