[time-nuts] Jupiter GPS receiver

Geoff geoff36 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 1 15:46:31 EST 2006


"Didier Juges" wrote:
> I am planning to let the GPS receiver run a while longer to see if it
> corrects itself at some point, and if it does not, I'll reboot it.

Hello Didier,

The Jupiter GPS receiver (if used in NMEA and not binary mode) has a known 
fault, that it can be 1 or 2 seconds delta to UTC, this is independent of 
the "leap-second" situation.

The 1pps is very good - but the NMEA time-marking is the big weakness in the 
Jupiter GPS.

Regards, Kiwi Geoff.
http://www.geocities.com/kiwi_36_nz






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