[time-nuts] Some GPS performance plots

John R. Ackermann N8UR jra at febo.com
Wed Nov 3 10:24:37 EST 2004


Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <4188F665.5090502 at febo.com>, "John R. Ackermann N8UR" writes:
> 
>>Nothing sexy here, but in response to some serious confusion on the NTP 
>>mailing list, I put together some plots of the 1pps output from a 
>>Motorola M12+ Timing Oncore versus an Rb standard.  It may be helpful if 
>>you want to point people to info about GPS timing capabilities.
>>
>>http://www.febo.com/time-freq/gps/performance/index.html
> 
> 
> You're not being fair to the M12+ here.  You should correct the timestamp with the
> "negative sawtooth correction" field from the serial data stream.

I know, and I should (and will) note to that on the page.  Since I'm 
capturing the 1pps output from the receiver and feeding it into a 
counter, I can't apply the sawtooth correction value the way I could if 
I were processing the data in a PC.

John




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