[time-nuts] Lucent KS-24361/Z3812A GPSDO initial setup
Bob Stewart
bob at evoria.net
Sat Oct 25 04:57:57 UTC 2014
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Hi Hal,
That should have been Satstat, and yeah, after looking through the Z3801 User's Guide, I decided to just let it play by itself. It found the right date after it started acquiring sats, so I guess all is good.
I think I figured out why only the REF-0 unit was responding. And that's because there are two units, and the one that's not active doesn't reply. At the moment, REF-0 which is responding has the ON light lit, and REF-1 says it's in STBY.
So I think I finally have a better phase reference than the 10811 I've been using. At least the phase plot against my GPSDO project is pretty stable over the last 2500 seconds, and a proper ADEV curve is starting to develop. Unfortunately, I've been battling what I think is a thermal problem, so it could all fall over sometime tonight. OTOH, the survey isn't complete, and I have no idea about the performance of this Z3812A during survey.
And thanks for the Linux ideas.
Bob
From: Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>
To: Bob Stewart <bob at evoria.net>; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <time-nuts at febo.com>
Cc: hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 10:55 PM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lucent KS-24361/Z3812A GPSDO initial setup
bob at evoria.net said:
> The mode says "Power-Up: GPS Acquisition", so I guess that's OK. I think
> things are progressing. It's attempting to survey, but reporting
> "Suspended: poor geometry". I suppose with a little more time this will
> work itself out? It seems to be slowly tracking more sats, as it's now up
> to 5. I wonder if there's a way to shortcut the survey process using
> Satstat? I've got a 48 hour survey done on this antenna with the LEA-6T, so
> I should be able to input those figures, right? I'll see if I can find
> anything in a Satstat manual I found.
Or just wait and see how well the location it finds matches your current data.
The Z3801A manual is easy to find and contains a good description of the SCPI
commands. Yes, I think there is a way to load the location and bypass the
survey. I think there is a slot in Satsat where you can type in commands by
hand.
You don't need Satsat. You can talk to it from the command line. On Linux,
for a Z3801A, I do things like:
ln -s /dev/ttyS2 /dev/hpgps1
stty -F /dev/hpgps1 19200 cs7 parodd parenb igncr
stty -F /dev/hpgps1 19200 oddp igncr -echo
On one window:
cat /dev/hpgps1
On another window:
echo -e ":ptime:tcode:format F2" > /dev/hpgps1
echo -e ":diag:gps:utc 1" > /dev/hpgps1 # Needs reboot?
echo -e ":SYSTEM:STATUS?" > /dev/hpgps1
# fix for week wrap - maybe only works before survey
echo -e ":GPS:INIT:DATE 2011,12,26" > /dev/hpgps1
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