[time-nuts] Cesium C Field Set?

[John Ackermann N8UR]

I cut-and-pasted wrong in my earlier message.  The last two sentences 
(about the absolute difference between the start and stop pulses being 
1.5us, and the averaging being 600 seconds) refer to the GPS setup, not 
the LORAN one.

Sorry about that.

John
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John Ackermann N8UR wrote:
> Brooke Clarke wrote:
> 
>> Hi:
>>
>> Here's a plot of the time interval between a zero crossing of the 1 
>> MHz cesium output vs. an average of 1,000 GPS 1 PPS.  It's been going 
>> for over 10 days and I think the wanderings are due to using different 
>> satellites in the GPS constellation.  Has anyone else plotted GPS vs. 
>> Cesium, i.e. are these results reasonable?
>> http://www.pacificsites.com/~brooke/pdf/sn1227_CF544.pdf
>>
>> I have the ionospheric correction turned off on the GPS receiver, 
>> should it be on?
> 
> 
> Hi Brooke --
> 
> You seem to have quite a bit more noise on your plot than I am getting 
> with mine, though my current run isn't as long as yours (and I'm 
> obviously still trimming the C field).
> 
> My current run versus GPS is at 
> http://www.febo.com/time-freq/plots/hp5061a.html and versus LORAN-C is 
> at http://www.febo.com/time-freq/plots/hp5061a-loran.html.  The script 
> updates the plots every 15 minutes.
> 
> My GPS measurement setup is a Motorola UT+ receiver mounted on a TAC-2 
> board driving the stop input of a 5370B counter, with the 1pps from the 
> 5061A driving the start input.  The reference for the counter is my 
> 5065A Rb.
> 
> The LORAN measurement setup reads an Austron 2100F chart output in 1us 
> FS mode.  I'm tracking 8970M from Dana, Indiana, which is something like 
> 150 miles from my location.  An HP 3421A data acquisition box 
> (essentially, a multiplexer coupled to a 5 1/2 digit DMM and GPIB 
> interface) reads the chart output.  I use minimum GRI averaging in the 
> receiver and take readings once per second, averaging for 100 seconds.
> The absolute offset between the two pulses is about 1.5us; my plotting 
> software normalizes from that.  I'm averaging for 600 seconds.
> 
> John
> 
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