[time-nuts] NTP and Oncore UT+

Bob Camp lists at rtty.us
Sat Apr 19 20:03:41 EDT 2014


Hi

There are a series of init strings you send to any of these modules to get them into the “right” mode. There’s nothing secret about it. It’s all in the manuals for what ever board you have. You decide what you want it to send you and then tell it what to do.

Bob

On Apr 19, 2014, at 6:41 PM, Bob Stewart <bob at evoria.net> wrote:

> Hi Bob,
> 
> There seems to be some issue 
> with this UT+ that I haven't dealt with.  After a cold boot it does not 
> like to start up the comms.  There is apparently some handshake 
> procedure to get it all up properly, as the demo version of SynTac's 
> software didn't have any problem with getting it going last summer.  I 
> just don't know what the proper sequence of probes is to boot it.  Since
> it's been off of battery power for many months, I assume it's going to 
> come up mute when I wire it in again.  It always has before when the 
> battery is disconnected.  My assumption was that NTP would know the 
> secret handshake.  Writing the software to extract the sawtooth is no 
> big deal.  It has version 2.2 of the firmware.
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> 
>> ________________________________
>> From: Bob Camp <lists at rtty.us>
>> To: Bob Stewart <bob at evoria.net>; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <time-nuts at febo.com> 
>> Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2014 5:17 PM
>> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] NTP and Oncore UT+
>> 
>> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> If you have a serial “thing” hooked to the GPS, pulling the sawtooth data out of it is not very hard. They all have some sort of repeating message that contains time / date / sawtooth information. 
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
>> 
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