[time-nuts] Crude Survey Technique

[David J Taylor]

The Thunderbolt uses single precision floating point and digital filtering 
for temperature so yes, you are going to see values like this. This is not 
unusual (precision clearly out of step with accuracy), like the HP network 
analyzers returning gain in dB with 4 decimals at microwave frequencies.
Not sure what your point is?
Should Lady Heather pretend to know better and muck with what's sent by the 
receiver?
I prefer not but it's a matter of opinion.

Didier KO4BB
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Oh, if that's what the Thunderbolt sends, then that's what should be 
reported.  I hadn't appreciated that.  Makes you wonder why the designers 
did that, though.

More modern equipment I've seen uses (for example) integers to report dB x 
10, so tenths of a dB resolution.  I do see computer temperature sensors 
reporting in millidegrees, with an accuracy of +/-  2°C!

73,
David GM8ARV
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