Hello fellow nuts.
Long time.
This is 14 years in the making as my notes when I put this away are dated
2009, but I finally figured a few things out and got the Z3817A to
discipline the E1938:
SYNCHRONIZATION ............................ [ Outputs Valid/Reduced
Accuracy ]
SmartClock Mode ___________________________ Reference Outputs
Locked to TIMEREF2: stabilizing freq TFOM 3 FFOM
1
Recovery 1PPS TI +0 ps rel to TIMEREF2
Holdover HOLD THR 1.000 us
Power-up Holdover Uncertainty
Predict 432.0 us/initial 24
hrs
ACQUISITION ........................................... [ TIMEREF2 1PPS
Valid ]
Tracking: 0 ____ Not Tracking: 0 ________ Time
TIME --:--:-- [?] -- ---
GPS 1PPS Invalid: not tracking
ANT DLY --
Position
MODE Hold
LAT --
LON --
ELEV MASK -- HGT --
HEALTH MONITOR ......................................................... [
OK ]
Self Test: OK | Int Pwr: OK Oven Pwr: OK OCXO: OK EFC: OK GPS Rcv:
OK
I documented my findings here:
https://github.com/charlieh0tel/ee_stuff/tree/main/projects/z3817a
and here (partial schematic of the power/interface board):
https://github.com/charlieh0tel/ee_stuff/tree/main/projects/z3817a
Thanks to Peter Grounds for help back in 2009.
I suspect it wants Motorola/i.Lotus on the RXD, but I didn't have a chance
to try that. NMEA sentences from a Furuno from a 58503A didn't do anything.
I still would like to dump the MPU Flash.
-ch
ES 73 DE AI6KG