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Re: [time-nuts] My Garmin 18x, Ver 3.50, currently 1 second slow to UTC

DJ
David J Taylor
Thu, Jan 13, 2011 7:50 AM

This agrees with what Kasper Pedersen wrote earlier:

3.10 starts transmitting 350ms .. 480ms after PPS
3.30 starts transmitting 920ms .. 1220ms (!) after PPS
3.50 starts transmitting 700ms .. 1220ms (!) after PPS

Folks,

With some help from Hal Murray who knows more of NTP than I do, we have
worked round this problem as described here:

http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/FreeBSD-GPS-PPS.htm#gps-18x

The basic steps were:

  • make the GPX18x LVC "noselect" so that NTP would not use it

  • enable the peerstats to measure where NTP thought the 18x end of message
    occurred

  • analyse the peerstats file to determine the apparent offset (which
    was -1.000 seconds, as it happened)

  • add that offset (as +1.000 seconds) to the fudge time2 value for the 18x
    in the ntp.conf

  • restart NTP

I hope that helps someone.

Cheers,
David

SatSignal software - quality software written to your requirements
Web:  http://www.satsignal.eu
Email:  david-taylor@blueyonder.co.uk

> This agrees with what Kasper Pedersen wrote earlier: >> 3.10 starts transmitting 350ms .. 480ms after PPS >> 3.30 starts transmitting 920ms .. 1220ms (!) after PPS >> 3.50 starts transmitting 700ms .. 1220ms (!) after PPS Folks, With some help from Hal Murray who knows more of NTP than I do, we have worked round this problem as described here: http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/FreeBSD-GPS-PPS.htm#gps-18x The basic steps were: - make the GPX18x LVC "noselect" so that NTP would not use it - enable the peerstats to measure where NTP thought the 18x end of message occurred - analyse the peerstats file to determine the apparent offset (which was -1.000 seconds, as it happened) - add that offset (as +1.000 seconds) to the fudge time2 value for the 18x in the ntp.conf - restart NTP I hope that helps someone. Cheers, David -- SatSignal software - quality software written to your requirements Web: http://www.satsignal.eu Email: david-taylor@blueyonder.co.uk