EURAMET Project 1156, GPSCALEU: Results of two years GPS receiver calibration campaign

Since 2010 ROA has supported the coordination of the EURAMET Technical Committee for Time and Frequency (TC-TF) Project 1156, GPSCALEU, a reaction from EURAMET TC-TF to Recommendation 2 of CCTF 2009: to study the characterization of GNSS equipment in use for establishing the time links between institutes contributing with their clocks to TAI. Starting that year, it was organized a GPS calibration campaign between three contributing laboratories: ROA (Spain), PTB (Germany) and INRIM (Italy). The time transfer results were achieved by using P3, and also carrier phase PPP comparison techniques. These results were also used to re-calibrate the TWSTFT (Two-Way Satellite Time and Frequency Transfer, TW for short) links between the involved laboratories, with an uncertainty slightly higher than GPS links.

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