[time-nuts] Turning off PPS when not enough satellites

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue Aug 1 07:20:27 EDT 2006


In message <000401c6b55b$fe7a7f10$03b2fea9 at athlon>, "Ulrich Bangert" writes:

>b) I never saw a timing receiver featuring a "navigate forever" mode.
>Everything that i had in my hands had a "automatic site survey" mode
>after which it would return to "position hold". That's why i think the
>formulation that it depends on the receiver's primary purpose is not
>that wrong!

The motorola timing receivers can also run in navigation mode
and I belive they do so by default.

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