Command line interface
system may, for example, be configured for GPS power-cycling and the receiver may
be powered down - the digitiser will produce data with incorrect time-stamps until it
can resynchronise to the GPS receiver again. If the digitiser is notified in advance
about an upcoming leap-second, this situation can be avoided and the leap-second
will be handled correctly even if GPS data are unavailable at the time.
In addition, some older GPS receivers - those based on Trimble Lassen SQ modules -
were supplied with a firmware revision that did not properly implement leap-
seconds. See
SQPATCH
, below.
Note:
The leap second is taken to be at the
end
of the day
yyyy-mm-dd
.
6.4.8 SQPATCH
Syntax:
SQPATCH ENABLE
or
SQPATCH DISABLE
Enables or disables the internal patch for older GPS receivers based on Trimble
Lassen SQ units with faulty firmware. These units misinterpreted the GPS system's
advance notification of a leap second and, consequently, reported times which were
one second out during the period between the leap second announcement and the
actual leap second itself.
With
SQPATCH
enabled, the time reported by the digitiser is offset by 1 second to
counteract this problem. If you have set
LEAPSECOND
, above,
SQPATCH
will
automatically be disabled when the leap second occurs and the digitiser will then
run normally. GPS receivers with the latest firmware do not suffer from this
problem.
To find out whether
SQPATCH
is currently enabled, issue the command
.SQPATCH
6.5 Port configuration
6.5.1 BAUD
Syntax:
port baud-rate BAUD
Sets the baud rate for one of the serial ports on the DM24, in bytes per second.
port
can be:
•
0
, for the DATA OUT port;
•
1
, for the GPS port; or
•
2
, for the DATA IN port.
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