Long term time stability of conventional GPS receivers

The most important feature of GPS-receivers in time keeping is long-term phase stability and reliability. MIKES and Nokia have studied in cooperation the performance of medium price commercial GPS receivers both in the short term and long-term sense. By comparing time differences of the receivers, b...

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Main Authors: Kalliomaki, K., Mansten, T., Koivula, H., Mannermaa, J.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Clocks
Delay
Global Positioning System
Humidity
Laboratories
Masers
Phase detection
Phase measurement
Stability
Temperature
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Summary:The most important feature of GPS-receivers in time keeping is long-term phase stability and reliability. MIKES and Nokia have studied in cooperation the performance of medium price commercial GPS receivers both in the short term and long-term sense. By comparing time differences of the receivers, both short term and long-term stability can be evaluated assuming that all receivers do not drift into the same direction. A long term stability seems to be from < 1 ns/yr to about 10 ns/yr. Due to operational interrupts unexpected transient phase changes occur in some receivers. The magnitude of these permanent jumps varies from 10 ns to 50 ns. The older receivers show a diurnal phase variation of 10..20 ns. Temperature effects seem to be small though the ambient temperature can vary from -20degC to +30degC.
ISSN:2327-1914
DOI:10.1109/FREQ.2009.5168279