[ntp:questions] Accuracy of GPS satellite signal ?
Richard B. Gilbert
rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Wed Jan 24 15:02:35 UTC 2007
Richard Eich wrote:
> If I were to set up five or six global locations, each time-
> synchronized to a local GPS receiver, how much variability would I
> expect there to be between the time as indicated by the GPS
> satellites used by each local GPS receiver.
>
> I'm happy to click on a link and do my own reading. Just haven't
> been able to find the right link yet (still looking, though).
>
> Thx
If you are using a GPS TIMING receiver with PPS output, the leading edge
of the PPS signal should be within about 50 nanoseconds of UTC. How
accurately your computer can read that PPS signal is another story.
Note that is extremely important to use a receiver designed for timing
service; navigation receivers are optimized for navigation rather than
timing.
I have experience with only one such receiver, the Motorola Oncore
M12+T. I use it with a Sun Ultra 10 Workstation and Solaris 8. I get
microsecond accuracy. YMMV
It should not matter which satellites your site is using, they all keep
the same time to within nanoseconds!
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