[time-nuts] Trimble GPS board

[Arthur Dent]

Here is an update on the 57964-60 GPSDO board that I
bought. After figuring out what it needed for power
(it is definitely 5.6-6.0VDV) and communications as I
previously posted, I built it into a nice enclosure
and fed the 10 Mhz output into my modified Tbolt so
I could get a graph of the output. The graph doesn't
show the first 10 minutes after power-up because the
10 Mhz isn't active until the GPS locks. It looks to
be a pretty reasonable GPSDO in a small package. The
labels on the front and back panels are just in the
photoshop pictures shown in the link below and I haven't
made the physical labels yet. Note that I did remove
the on-board LEDs and reset switch and then mounted
replacements on the front panel where they would be
useful.

I have no idea what equipment these GPSDOs were used in
so I have no idea whether there is going to be a lot of
them appearing for sale in the future or just a few. I
hope that if there are a lot of these available someone
with the knowledge can make a Lady Heather type program
to see what the thing is doing. Using a terminal emulator
program works but is really clunky.

http://i906.photobucket.com/albums/ac262/rjb1998/GPSDOx4_zpsu2cugpwg.jpg

-Arthur