Hi

> On Apr 25, 2021, at 9:31 AM, Lux, Jim <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 4/25/21 6:02 AM, Bob kb8tq wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> The thing that I find useful about a GPS simulator is it’s ability to 
>> calibrate the
>> time delay through a GPS based system. In the case of a GPSDO, there may be
>> things beyond the simple receiver delay that get into the mix. Getting the 
>> entire
>> offset “picture” all at once is nice thing. Yes, that’s a Time Nutty way to 
>> look at it…..
>> 
>> So far, I have not seen anybody extending this sort of calibration to the 
>> low cost
>> SDR based devices. Without digging into the specific device, I’m not sure how
>> well a “generic” calibration would do. Indeed, it might work quite well. 
>> Without
>> actually doing it … no way to tell.
>> 
>> So if anybody knows of the results of such an effort, I suspect it would be 
>> of
>> interest to folks here on the list.
>> 
>> Bob
> 
> 
> A double difference kind of relative measurement might be useful - compare 
> two (or three) GNSS receivers.  Then the absolute timing of the test source 
> isn't as important.

Well …. it is and it isn’t. If you are trying to get “UTC in the basement” (or 
even 
GPS time)  to a couple nanoseconds, then you do need to know absolute delays 
of a number of things. Is this a bit crazy? Of course it is :) 

Bob

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