[time-nuts] Three-cornered hat on timelab?

Bob Stewart bob at evoria.net
Thu Apr 27 12:48:37 EDT 2017


Hi Magnus,
Try as I might, the weather and the local power company had other ideas about my long term capture.  I'm running everything but the 5370 from a UPS.  I guess I'm going to have to get batteries for my other UPS and run the 5370 from that.  A one second power loss was all it took to stop the test.

Anyway, I did manage to get 376,238 points of data.  The data is captured on a 5370A.  The external clock input and the STOP channel are fed by the 10MHz from my PRS-45A.  The START channel is fed by the 10MHz from one of my GPSDOs.  The EXT channel is fed by the 1PPS from another of my GPSDO units.  "EXT ARM" is enabled.  So, essentially, at every 1PPS pulse, the phase difference between the two 10MHz feeds is captured.

I've attached a screenshot of the phase plot which can also be found here:http://evoria.net/AE6RV/Timelab/Screenshot.png
I've also made the timelab file (compressed by 7z) available here:
http://evoria.net/AE6RV/Timelab/GFSvsCS.4.22.17.7z

So, back to my question:  Where are the large ionospheric phase moves?  This question has been causing me doubt since I started on this project.  Or don't I still have enough data collected for this to happen?

Bob

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      From: Magnus Danielson <magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org>
 To: Bob Stewart <bob at evoria.net>; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <time-nuts at febo.com> 
Cc: magnus at rubidium.se
 Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2017 1:09 AM
 Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Three-cornered hat on timelab?
   
Hi Bob,

That is a good solution indeed. Good luck with that measurement run!

One of the fun stuff with Timelab is that you can walk by and check the 
developments. I've found that very useful for long measurements (as in 
hours and days).

I prepared a cesium for one vendor, and initially they did not care so 
much, but then they saw more deviations between the receivers, so they 
wanted to sort it out, but discovered that they could not cancel out the 
common mode of GPS signals (and its shifts), so then firing up that 
cesium was the right thing. I remember writing support emails while 
waiting for the airplane in Madrid airport, happy that they was doing a 
first run for the right measurement reason. :)

Cheers,
Magnus

On 04/18/2017 04:25 AM, Bob Stewart wrote:
> Hi Magnus,
> Today I started a long run against my PRS-45A.  Maybe this time I won't have a power outage.  I'll see what it tells me in a few days.
> Bob

   
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