GPS 10 MHz and Local 10 MHz ------------------------------- Date: 11-Oct-2012 This scope picture shows the 10 MHz signal from the GPS receiver on channel #1 and a locally generated 10 MHz signal from an ovenized quarts oscillator on channel #2. At the time of this picture the locally generated 10 MHz quarts oscillator was smoothly running about 0.2 Hz faster than the GPS 10 MHz signal. The local 10 MHz was just used as a reference to trigger the scope and it is assumed and verified to be rather jitter free. The point of this scope picture is to see the 5 nsec adjustments that the GPS receiver makes to the phase of its 10 MHz reference output signal to keep this signal locked to "absolute" time. The intent was to confirm that we correctly understand the characteristics of the GPS receiver's 10 MHz output and thus are correctly treating this GPS reference in the Clock H-Clk card. Steps in phase like this are characteristic of numerically controlled oscillators such as the one used in the GPS receiver. These steps in phase are spread out over a couple of msec by the quarts based voltage controlled oscillator in the phase locked loop 40 MHz generator in the Clock H-Clk card.