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Symmetricom S250 problems

MW
Michael Wouters
Wed, Sep 28, 2022 12:36 AM

Hello

We recently got in a Symmetricom S250 for calibration. There was an
advisory a few months ago about this unit having the usual GPS week number
problem with TOD rolling back 1024 weeks. The advisory says that 1 pps, 10
MHz should still be Ok but this is not the case. The receiver appears to be
Ok - it goes into ‘position hold’ and comes up with good  coordinates and
is tracking 8 to 10 satellites.
The timing outputs are clearly not GPS locked though.

Has anyone else experienced problems?

Cheers
Michael

Hello We recently got in a Symmetricom S250 for calibration. There was an advisory a few months ago about this unit having the usual GPS week number problem with TOD rolling back 1024 weeks. The advisory says that 1 pps, 10 MHz should still be Ok but this is not the case. The receiver appears to be Ok - it goes into ‘position hold’ and comes up with good coordinates and is tracking 8 to 10 satellites. The timing outputs are clearly not GPS locked though. Has anyone else experienced problems? Cheers Michael