You can use the external SYNC input to feed in a common 1PPS signal. 

Then set your time source to “external”. I suspect you’ll only do a little 
better than the two independent GPS receivers. 



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> On Dec 23, 2020, at 4:50 PM, Ofer Saferman via USRP-users 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I asked a few weeks ago about the possibility to use the internal GPS 
> receivers of the E310 to synchronize multiple units.
> Someone explained that the internal GPS receiver and its associated 
> synchronization algorithm are not good enough and I will not get 
> synchronization that is better than several tenths of microseconds.
> 
> What would you suggest is the best way to synchronize E310 units so that they 
> will be synchronized at base-band sample level? I mean that when transmitting 
> from 2 (or more) different E310 units the Tx samples will be perfectly 
> time-aligned on different units.
> 
> I noticed there is a SYNC input and somewhere I read that it is possible to 
> provide an external 1PPS signal. Could someone comment on this feature? 
> Explain if it works? How to make it work in terms of software setup?
> Maybe the SYNC input can be used differently for synchronization?
> 
> Is there another way to achieve the synchronization that I want, given that 
> the E310 has no external reference clock input?
> 
> Regards,
> Ofer Saferman
> 
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