[time-nuts] "GPS once a day issues" ?

Magnus Danielson magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Mon Oct 20 07:43:05 UTC 2014


Bob,

Since the satellite orbit the earth with a period of 11 hours and 58 
minutes, it is actually twice a day.

Cheers,
Magnus

On 10/20/2014 03:50 AM, Bob Camp wrote:
> Hi
>
> The GPS constellation repeats roughly once a day. It is not at all uncommon to have a “worst case” sattelite  geometry for a given antenna location. If you have one, it will repeat once a day and show up as a bump in the timing out of your GPS module. If you track long term data, it will / may / can keep you from getting to the sort of stability you would expect in the 100,000 second range. It’s one of the main reasons that things like GPSD-Rb’s lock up with time constants much longer than 100K seconds. Yes having a Cs or something similar helps a lot looking for this sort of thing.
>
> Bob
>
>> On Oct 19, 2014, at 9:26 PM, Bob Stewart <bob at evoria.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Bob Camp,
>>
>>
>> In your response to Chris, you said: "Once you have it “right” you really need to check it over a month or two to watch for GPS “once a day” issues. "
>>
>> Could I ask you what you meant by these "once a day issues"?  Was this a general comment, or was it about something specific?  As you know I'm working on a GPSDO and am doing a lot of testing, so if there's something else I should be looking for, please let me know.
>>
>>
>> Bob - AE6RV
>>
>>
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