1 = Arbiter 1088A/B GPS Receiver
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6 ["verse",subs="normal"]
10 Serial Port: /dev/gps__u__; 9600 bps 8N1
13 == Deprecation warning
15 This refclock is deprecated and obsolete. The NTPsec maintainers plan
16 to remove it in a future release. If you have a requirement for it,
17 please make this known to us.
19 This driver reports only two-digit years, and is thus reliant on the
20 system clock to be near correct before samples will be processed
21 properly. You will not be able to use it to run autonomously, nor will
22 it reliably recover from a trashed or zeroed system clock.
24 It is likely any surving instances of this hardware will have
25 era-rollover issues when reporting dates. One or more "g" suffixes
26 on your 'time1' option may be useful as a workaround.
30 This driver supports the Arbiter 1088A/B Satellite Controlled Clock. The
31 claimed accuracy of this clock is 100 ns relative to the PPS output when
32 receiving four or more satellites.
34 The receiver should be configured before starting the NTP daemon, in
35 order to establish reliable position and operating conditions. It does
36 not initiate surveying or hold mode. For use with NTP, the daylight
37 savings time feature should be disables (+D0+ command) and the broadcast
38 mode set to operate in UTC (+BU+ command).
40 The timecode format supported by this driver is selected by the poll
41 sequence +B5+, which initiates a line in the following format to be
42 repeated once per second until turned off by the +B0+ command.
44 Format +B5+ (24 ASCII printing characters):
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47 <cr><lf>i yy ddd hh:mm:ss.000bbb
50 i = synchronization flag (' ' = locked, '?' = unlocked)
53 hh:mm:ss = hours, minutes, seconds
54 .000 = fraction of second (not used)
55 bbb = tailing spaces for fill
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58 The alarm condition is indicated by a \'?' at i, which indicates the
59 receiver is not synchronized. In normal operation, a line consisting of
60 the timecode followed by the time quality character (TQ) followed by the
61 receiver status string (SR) is written to the clockstats file.
63 The time quality character is encoded in IEEE P1344 standard:
65 Format +TQ+ (IEEE P1344 estimated worst-case time quality)
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68 0 clock locked, maximum accuracy
69 F clock failure, time not reliable
70 4 clock unlocked, accuracy < 1 us
71 5 clock unlocked, accuracy < 10 us
72 6 clock unlocked, accuracy < 100 us
73 7 clock unlocked, accuracy < 1 ms
74 8 clock unlocked, accuracy < 10 ms
75 9 clock unlocked, accuracy < 100 ms
76 A clock unlocked, accuracy < 1 s
77 B clock unlocked, accuracy < 10 s
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80 The status string is encoded as follows:
82 Format +SR+ (25 ASCII printing characters)
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85 V=vv S=ss T=t P=pdop E=ee
87 vv = satellites visible
88 ss = relative signal strength
89 t = satellites tracked
90 pdop = position dilution of precision (meters)
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94 A three-stage median filter is used to reduce jitter and provide a
95 dispersion measure. The driver makes no attempt to correct for the
96 intrinsic jitter of the radio itself.
100 When enabled by the +flag4+ option, an additional line containing
101 the latitude, longitude, elevation and optional deviation data is
102 written to the +clockstats+ file. The deviation data operates with an
103 external pulse-per-second (PPS) input, such as a cesium oscillator or
104 another radio clock. The PPS input should be connected to the B event
105 channel and the radio initialized for deviation data on that channel.
106 The deviation data consists of the mean offset and standard deviation of
107 the external PPS signal relative the GPS signal, both in microseconds
108 over the last 16 seconds.
113 The driver unit number, defaulting to 0. Used as a distinguishing
114 suffix in the driver device name.
116 Specifies the time offset calibration factor, in seconds and fraction,
119 Not used by this driver.
121 Specifies the driver stratum, in decimal from 0 to 15, with default 0.
123 Specifies the driver reference identifier, an ASCII string from one to
124 four characters, with default +GPS+.
126 Not used by this driver.
128 Not used by this driver.
130 Not used by this driver.
132 Enable verbose +clockstats+ recording if set.
134 Not used by this driver.
136 Not used by this driver.
138 Overrides the default device path.
139 +ppspath+ 'filename'::
140 Not used by this driver.
142 Overrides the default baud rate.
144 == Configuration Example
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152 David L. Mills <mills@udel.edu>
154 == Additional Information
156 link:refclock.html[Reference Clock Drivers]
160 If your Arbiter has firmware made more than 1024 weeks (19 years and 36
161 weeks) in the past, its internal date counter may wrap around
162 and generate spurious timestamps.
164 This problem is fundamental and cannot be compensated for in code
165 without relying on the accuracy of the local system clock, which
166 is exactly what an NTP implementation may not do without risking
167 perverse failure modes (especially at startup time).
169 The only sure remedy is to be sure the Arbiter's firmware has been
170 updated within the current GPS era.
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