On Saturday 27 October 2007, Simon Arlott wrote:
> On 27/10/07 07:35, Dennis Hilberg, Jr. wrote:
> > I had a similar discussion on the list recently about the GPS 18 LVC.  
Here 
> > is what Rob Janssen had to say about gpsd:
> > 
> > Rob wrote:
> >  > The message-based time (SHM(0)) is very inaccurate because of 
> > deficiencies > in most GPS receivers and their comms protocols.  It is 
> > completely unclear > what time the timestamp in the message refers to, and 
> > usually it jitters
> >  > wildly.
> >  > The PPS output pulse is accurate, and the message-based time is only
> >  > required to bring the local clock well within one second, at which time
> >  > the PPS should take over.
> >  > Indeed, the whole operation is much more reliable when you have a 
couple
> >  > of references for NTP to choose from.
> 
> In my experience, when the GPS 18 has a fix, the GPRMC sentence received 
> after the PPS signal starts is correct and in sync with the PPS enough to 
> ensure it's received after it. When there's no fix the PPS signal is still 
> accurate compared to external servers also using GPS, but the GPRMC 
> sentence following PPS can reference the previous second...
> 
> Also, it's rather bizarre to claim the SHM refclock itself is inaccurate, 
> it's not and can receive time from any source :P (although I would like to 
be 
> able to automatically change refid from GPS to PPS when appropriate).
> 
>      remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  
jitter
> 
==============================================================================
>  LOCAL(0)        .LOCL.           8 l    8   16  377    0.000    0.000   
0.001
> *SHM(0)          .GPS.            0 l   11   16  377    0.000    0.177   
0.034
>  SHM(1)          .DCF.            0 l  98m   64    0    0.000  -29.925   
9.547
>  SHM(2)          .MSF.            0 l    8   64  377    0.000  -48.509   
0.294
> -ntp0.nl.uu.net  .GPS.            1 u   32   64  377   37.850   -0.902   
4.009
> -ntp1.nl.uu.net  .GPS.            1 u   30   64  377   35.372   -0.768   
3.456
> -tik.cesnet.cz   .GPS.            1 u   49   64  377   53.346   -1.301   
0.535
> -ntp2.sp.se      .PPS.            1 u   61   64  377   58.531    0.972   
0.846
> +ntp-galway.hea. .GPS.            1 u   62   64  377   37.547    0.197   
0.329
> +ntps1-0.cs.tu-b .PPS.            1 u   53   64  377   55.847    0.236  
12.696
> 
> I'm using my own code (http://svn.lp0.eu/simon/gps_nmea/, based on gpsd, 
> radioclkd) since I want to be able to do other things with the NMEA data 
too.
> 

if gpsd based does it still allow retrieving nmea strings via telnet?

> (I'm currently recalibrating my radio clocks directly to the PPS signal, 
which 
> takes a while to get enough samples to do so...)
> 
> -- 
> Simon Arlott
> 



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