I put my HP 58503A into an infinite loop where 1) Forced GPS receiver to do a survey (GPS:POS:SURVEY ONCE) 2) Waited until survey was complete (GPS:POS:HOLD? returns 1) This takes about 2 hour. 3) Recorded date (SYST:DATE?), time (SYST:TIME?) and location (GPS:POS?) For about 4 hours before the leap second, I stopped this, so the clock was right at the time of the leap second. Then I restarted some time after midnight. The actual data file is here http://www.kirkbymicrowave.co.uk/HP-58503A/gps.log which is being updated whenever a survey is complete, and new data collected - about once every 2 hours. A plot of the height from the first 19 data points is here. http://www.kirkbymicrowave.co.uk/HP-58503A/gps-height.pdf Unlike hte log, this is not being updated dynamically - I should have used another machine which has gnuplot on it for that. Anyway, based on the first 19 data points, the antenna height appears to be anywhere from 40 to 48.5 m. I'm pretty sure it is not bouncing up and down 8.5 metres! The latitude and longitude move too. I've not converted them into metres, so I don't know how much they represent. The antenna is about 3.5 m above ground level, mounted to the side of a garage, which is higher. I could push it another 2 m or so by mounting it on the garage, but not without drilling holes in the garage which will not exactly make the XYL happy, although I guess if I do it when she is not looking, its a bit late to moan then! I was thinking of telling the receiver the location is an "average" of the data points. Some thought would need to be given to averaging, although I would have thought in my latitude (51 deg, 39' N), and distance from the meridian (0 deg, 41' E), a simple mean would not be a bad figure. But I stand to be corrected. -- Dr. David Kirkby Ph.D CEng MIET Kirkby Microwave Ltd Registered office: Stokes Hall Lodge, Burnham Rd, Althorne, Essex, CM3 6DT, UK. Registered in England and Wales, company number 08914892. http://www.kirkbymicrowave.co.uk/ Tel: 07910 441670 / +44 7910 441670 (0900 to 2100 GMT only please)

My 58503A was showing an alarm when I came into the shack this morning. (I forgot to jot down the text on the display.) I cleared the alarm (Shift-Alt) and it otherwise seems 100% happy. -ch 73 de AI6KG On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 7:02 AM, Dr. David Kirkby - Kirkby Microwave Ltd < drkirkby@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk> wrote: > I put my HP 58503A into an infinite loop where > > 1) Forced GPS receiver to do a survey (GPS:POS:SURVEY ONCE) > 2) Waited until survey was complete (GPS:POS:HOLD? returns 1) This takes > about 2 hour. > 3) Recorded date (SYST:DATE?), time (SYST:TIME?) and location (GPS:POS?) > > For about 4 hours before the leap second, I stopped this, so the clock was > right at the time of the leap second. Then I restarted some time after > midnight. > > The actual data file is here > > http://www.kirkbymicrowave.co.uk/HP-58503A/gps.log > > which is being updated whenever a survey is complete, and new data > collected - about once every 2 hours. > > A plot of the height from the first 19 data points is here. > > http://www.kirkbymicrowave.co.uk/HP-58503A/gps-height.pdf > > Unlike hte log, this is not being updated dynamically - I should have used > another machine which has gnuplot on it for that. > > Anyway, based on the first 19 data points, the antenna height appears to > be anywhere from 40 to 48.5 m. I'm pretty sure it is not bouncing up and > down 8.5 metres! The latitude and longitude move too. I've not converted > them into metres, so I don't know how much they represent. > > The antenna is about 3.5 m above ground level, mounted to the side of a > garage, which is higher. I could push it another 2 m or so by mounting it > on the garage, but not without drilling holes in the garage which will not > exactly make the XYL happy, although I guess if I do it when she is not > looking, its a bit late to moan then! > > I was thinking of telling the receiver the location is an "average" of the > data points. Some thought would need to be given to averaging, although I > would have thought in my latitude (51 deg, 39' N), and distance from the > meridian (0 deg, 41' E), a simple mean would not be a bad figure. But I > stand to be corrected. > > -- > Dr. David Kirkby Ph.D CEng MIET > Kirkby Microwave Ltd > Registered office: Stokes Hall Lodge, Burnham Rd, Althorne, Essex, CM3 > 6DT, UK. > Registered in England and Wales, company number 08914892. > http://www.kirkbymicrowave.co.uk/ > Tel: 07910 441670 / +44 7910 441670 (0900 to 2100 GMT only please) > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/ > mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. >