<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal">Thank you, Lee. </span><div style="font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br></div><div style="font-variant-ligatures:normal">You did some digging there and spent some time at it. That's really great of you. Much appreciated!</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Lee Woldanski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ve7fet@tparc.org" target="_blank">ve7fet@tparc.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Tim,<div><br></div><div>I dug in to the source to help figure this out... someone should put this in a wiki somewhere...</div><div><br></div><div>The VOTER/RTCM when in TSIP mode (Trimble), assumes it is a Trimble Thunderbolt and is looking for two packets:</div><div><br></div><div>0x8F-AB - Primary Timing Packet</div><div>0x8F-AC - Supplemental Timing Packet </div><div><br></div><div>Grab a copy of the Thunderbolt User Guide: <a href="http://leapsecond.com/pages/tbolt/Thunderbolt-2012-02.pdf" target="_blank">http://leapsecond.com/<wbr>pages/tbolt/Thunderbolt-2012-<wbr>02.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>Pages 78-83 are the important ones.</div><div><br></div><div>Packet 0x8F-AB is what grabs the timing information, and packet 0x8F-AC is what it looks at for everything else (including debug).</div><div><br></div><div>The debug string that the VOTER/RTCM reports:</div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>printf("GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok %d, 9 - 14: %02x %02x %02x %02x %02x %02x\n",</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>happy,gps_buf[9],gps_buf[10],<wbr>gps_buf[11],gps_buf[12],gps_<wbr>buf[13],gps_buf[14]);</div></div><div><br></div><div>So, the 1 after ok is the "happy.gps" flag. The other 5 bytes are supposed to be bytes 9-14 from the packet... sort of. They are bytes 9-14 of the buffer, but they are actually bytes 8-13 of the message.</div><div><br></div><div>Looking at the message structure, bytes 8-13 are:</div><div><br></div><div>8-9 Critical Alarms</div><div>10-11 Minor Alarms</div><div>12 GPS Decoding Status</div><div>13 Disciplining Activity</div><div><br></div><div>Therefore, the messages you are seeing break down as follows:</div><div><br></div><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 1, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 00 - everything is good in the 'hood, Doing Fixes, Phase Locking<br></div><div><br></div><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 0, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 18 08 06 - not happy, Not Tracking Satellites, Not Disciplining Oscillator (0x18 --> 0b000000011000), No Usable Sats, Inactive<br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 0, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 08 08 05 - not happy, Not Tracking Satellites, No Useable Sats, Compensating OXCO (holdover)</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 0, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 05 - not happy, Compensating OXCO (holdover)</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 1, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 08 - happy, Recovery Mode</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 0, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 04 - not happy, Initializing Loop Filter</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Why you are losing lock... can't help you there. Perhaps you have an antenna going bad, wet feedline, LNA in the antenna not receiving voltage, sky obstruction, or interference.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Cheers!</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Lee</span></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Tim Sawyer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tisawyer@gmail.com" target="_blank">tisawyer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>There is a pattern to the debug out put which looks like below. Sure would like to decode this:<br></div><div><br></div><div>It's happy when there are all zeros. Then it does 18 08 06</div><span><div><br></div><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 1, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 00</div><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 1, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 00</div></span><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 0, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 18 08 06</div><div>07/10/2017 20:35:42.100 GPS signal lost entirely. Starting again...</div><div>07/10/2017 20:35:42.100 Host Connection Lost (Pri) (192.168.1.6)</div><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 0, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 08 08 05</div><span><div>GPS Receiver Active, waiting for aquisition</div></span><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 0, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 08 08 05</div><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 0, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 08 08 05</div><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 0, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 08 08 05</div><div><br></div><div>Repeats, trimmed for brevity.</div><div><br></div><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 0, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 08 08 05</div><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 0, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 08 08 05</div><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 0, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 05</div><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 0, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 05</div><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 0, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 05</div><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 0, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 05</div><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 0, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 05</div><span><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 1, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 08</div></span><div>GPS signal acquired</div><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 1, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 08</div><div>07/10/2017 20:36:03.100 Time now syncronized to GPS</div><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 1, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 08</div><div>07/10/2017 20:36:03.500 Host Connection established (Pri) (192.168.1.6)</div><span><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 1, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 08</div><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 1, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 08</div><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 1, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 08</div><div><br></div></span><div>Repeats, trimmed for brevity.</div><span><div><br></div><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 1, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 08<br></div><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 1, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 08</div><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 1, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 08</div><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 1, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 08</div><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 1, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 08</div><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 0, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 04</div></span><div>07/10/2017 20:36:52.200 GPS signal lost entirely. Starting again...</div><div>07/10/2017 20:36:52.220 Host Connection Lost (Pri) (192.168.1.6)</div><span><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 0, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 04</div><div>GPS Receiver Active, waiting for aquisition</div><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 1, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 00</div><div>GPS signal acquired</div><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 1, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 00</div></span><div>07/10/2017 20:36:56.220 Time now syncronized to GPS</div><span><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 1, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 00</div></span><div>07/10/2017 20:36:56.500 Host Connection established (Pri) (192.168.1.6)</div><span><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 1, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 00</div><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 1, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 00</div></span><span><div>GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 1, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 00</div><div><br></div></span><div>Now it will have all zeros until the next loss, which could be minutes or hours. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="m_4216046772936221903h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Jesse Lloyd <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ve7lyd@gmail.com" target="_blank">ve7lyd@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>I've had problems with the VHF transmitter antennas being too close to the GPS antenna and RF swamping it. If you go to site and use the Trimble software to see satellite signal data then key the transmitter, mine would show a loss of almost all the satellites. </div><div id="m_4216046772936221903m_-2958333252463375783m_-1081475487602878685AppleMailSignature"><br>Cheers,<div>Jesse</div></div><div><div class="m_4216046772936221903m_-2958333252463375783h5"><div><br>On Jul 10, 2017, at 1:17 PM, Tim Sawyer <<a href="mailto:tisawyer@gmail.com" target="_blank">tisawyer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>My RTCM, two of then actually on the same Trimble, are loosing lock of late. The output from the RTCM Debug mode 40 is shown below. I read that all zeros was good but I'm wondering 08 and 04 in the last byte mean. Does any know how to decode this?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 1, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 08</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 1, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 08</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 1, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 08</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 1, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 08</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 1, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 08</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 1, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 08</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 0, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 04</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">07/10/2017 20:08:22.160 GPS signal lost entirely. Starting again...</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">07/10/2017 20:08:22.160 Host Connection Lost (Pri) (192.168.1.6)</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 0, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 04</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">GPS Receiver Active, waiting for aquisition</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 1, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 00</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">GPS signal acquired</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 1, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 00</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">07/10/2017 20:08:26.160 Time now syncronized to GPS</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 1, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 00</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">07/10/2017 20:08:26.500 Host Connection established (Pri) (192.168.1.6)</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 1, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 00</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">GPS-DEBUG: TSIP: ok 1, 9 - 14: 00 00 00 00 00 00</span></p><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_4216046772936221903m_-2958333252463375783m_-1081475487602878685gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--<br></div><div>Tim</div></div></div></div></div>
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