Datacenter GNSS Time Best Practices
Eight things worth doing, from the closing slide of a talk on getting the last nanoseconds to UTC. Most cost nothing but attention, and most of the error they remove is invisible until somebody checks.
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How to configure antenna position for datacenter GNSS receivers?
If you don't know your exact location, you can't know the exact time — about a nanosecond of error for every foot you are off vertically. Here is how to get it right.
How to configure feedline length for datacenter GNSS receivers?
An uncalibrated feedline is likely your largest source of error to UTC — tens of nanoseconds from a cable nobody measured. Here is how to find the number and configure it.