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Arbiter 1088A/B GPS Receiver</H3>
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<H4>
Synopsis</H4>
Address: 127.127.11.<I>u</I>
<BR>Reference ID: <TT>GPS</TT>
<BR>Driver ID: <TT>GPS_ARBITER</TT>
<BR>Serial Port: <TT>/dev/gps<I>u</I></TT>; 9600 baud, 8-bits, no parity
<BR>Features: <TT>tty_clk</TT>
<H4>
Description</H4>
This driver supports the Arbiter 1088A/B Satellite Controlled Clock. The
claimed accuracy of this clock is 100 ns relative to the PPS output when
receiving four or more satellites.
<P>The receiver should be configured before starting the NTP daemon, in
order to establish reliable position and operating conditions. It does
not initiate surveying or hold mode. For use with NTP, the daylight savings
time feature should be disables (<TT>D0</TT> command) and the broadcast
mode set to operate in UTC (<TT>BU</TT> command).
<P>The timecode format supported by this driver is selected by the poll
sequence <TT>B5</TT>, which initiates a line in the following format to
be repeated once per second until turned off by the <TT>B0</TT> command.
<P>Format <TT>B5</TT> (24 ASCII printing characters):
<PRE>&lt;cr>&lt;lf>i yy ddd hh:mm:ss.000bbb
on-time = &lt;cr>
i = synchronization flag (' ' = locked, '?' = unlocked)
yy = year of century
ddd = day of year
hh:mm:ss = hours, minutes, seconds
.000 = fraction of second (not used)
bbb = tailing spaces for fill</PRE>
The alarm condition is indicated by a '?' at i, which indicates the receiver
is not synchronized. In normal operation, a line consisting of the timecode
followed by the time quality character (TQ) followed by the receiver status
string (SR) is written to the clockstats file.
<P>The time quality character is encoded in IEEE P1344 standard:
<P>Format <TT>TQ</TT> (IEEE P1344 estimated worst-case time quality)
<PRE>0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; clock locked, maximum accuracy
F&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; clock failure, time not reliable
4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; clock unlocked, accuracy &lt; 1 us
5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; clock unlocked, accuracy &lt; 10 us
6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; clock unlocked, accuracy &lt; 100 us
7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; clock unlocked, accuracy &lt; 1 ms
8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; clock unlocked, accuracy &lt; 10 ms
9&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; clock unlocked, accuracy &lt; 100 ms
A&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; clock unlocked, accuracy &lt; 1 s
B&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; clock unlocked, accuracy &lt; 10 s</PRE>
The status string is encoded as follows:
<P>Format <TT>SR</TT> (25 ASCII printing characters)
<PRE>V=vv S=ss T=t P=pdop E=ee
vv = satellites visible
ss = relative signal strength
t = satellites tracked
pdop = position dilution of precision (meters)
ee = hardware errors</PRE>
A three-stage median filter is used to reduce jitter and provide a dispersion
measure. The driver makes no attempt to correct for the intrinsic jitter
of the radio itself.
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Monitor Data</H4>
When enabled by the <TT>flag4</TT> fudge flag, an additional line containing
the latitude, longitude, elevation and optional deviation data is written
to the <TT>clockstats</TT> file. The deviation data operates with an external
pulse-per-second (PPS) input, such as a cesium oscillator or another radio
clock. The PPS input should be connected to the B event channel and the
radio initialized for deviation data on that channel. The deviation data
consists of the mean offset and standard deviation of the external PPS
signal relative the GPS signal, both in microseconds over the last 16 seconds.
<H4>
Fudge Factors</H4>
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<TT>time1 <I>time</I></TT></DT>
<DD>
Specifies the time offset calibration factor, in seconds and fraction,
with default 0.0.</DD>
<DT>
<TT>time2 <I>time</I></TT></DT>
<DD>
Not used by this driver.</DD>
<DT>
<TT>stratum <I>number</I></TT></DT>
<DD>
Specifies the driver stratum, in decimal from 0 to 15, with default 0.</DD>
<DT>
<TT>refid <I>string</I></TT></DT>
<DD>
Specifies the driver reference identifier, an ASCII string from one to
four characters, with default <TT>GPS</TT>.</DD>
<DT>
<TT>flag1 0 | 1</TT></DT>
<DD>
Not used by this driver.</DD>
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<TT>flag2 0 | 1</TT></DT>
<DD>
Not used by this driver.</DD>
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<TT>flag3 0 | 1</TT></DT>
<DD>
Not used by this driver.</DD>
<DT>
<TT>flag4 0 | 1</TT></DT>
<DD>
Enable verbose <TT>clockstats</TT> recording if set.</DD>
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Additional Information
<P><A HREF="refclock.htm">Reference Clock Drivers</A>&nbsp;
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<ADDRESS>
David L. Mills (mills@udel.edu)</ADDRESS>
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