[time-nuts] GPS: ADEV or MDEV?
Peter Schmelcher
nebula at telus.net
Fri Apr 13 02:43:44 EDT 2007
> >> Surely it would be much simpler (in principle at least) to just to add
> >> sufficient Gaussian phase noise to the GPS receiver clock so that
> >> potential coherence problems are virtually eliminated.
>
>
>The noise only really needs to be added to the PPS positioning
>algorithm/hardware.
My two cents. Masking the sawtooth is bad news. If you log the pps output
from a Z3816A you get the incorrect impression that the OCXO and/or the
atmosphere is unstable for time spans of tens of minutes. My Z3816A pps
logs look typical sd=10ns a few 50ns spikes the EFC ad=2 sd=5 etc. But use
the OXCO to synthesize a low noise LO for a second gps and the pps becomes
very stable a couple of ns. In the Z3816A the gps LO crystals 0.1 second
tau and the sawtooth interact and do bad things. It is best to eliminate
the problem and then to move on to new things. I am attenuating my HP
hockey puck antenna approximately 10dB to remove SV with range instability
from the gps pps solution. The current setup acquires SV at about 30 degree
and can then track them down to about 20 degree. The idea is that transit
time instability modulates the SV signal requiring a greater tracking
filter bandwidth which reduces the SNR hopefully below tracking. It is not
perfect - testing continues.
Peter
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