[time-nuts] GPS fade out, Sat/Sun

David davidwhess at gmail.com
Mon Feb 13 05:19:52 UTC 2012


I do not see any space weather anomalies that would explain it so my
guess is a local problem.

On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:52:54 -0800, Hal Murray
<hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:

>
>Did anybody else notice nything?  It might have been local noise/RFI.
>
>I'm in California (Silicon Valley).  It was about Sat noon-midnight local 
>time, 8PM Sat to 8AM Sun UTC.
>
>A TBolt and Z3801A went into holdover.  The TFOM on the Z3801A jumped up to 4 
>for a while.
>
>Most of my low cost GPS/NMEA units gave up.
>
>The thing that clued me in before I looked at the graphs of the log files was 
>the bright blue LED on a pair of Sure units stopped blinking.  (It really is 
>bright.  I normally run with a sheet of paper on top of them.)



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