This is just a collection of notes I made while building the GPS controller project by Brooks Shera that was published in QST magazine.

I used the MAX232 extra sections to do the conversion to interface with the Motorola TTL.  This is the pin-out I used:

It was suggested to add an additional divide by two to the counter stages. Here is how the pins of the two chips are connected after the change.

A program to collect and display data from the GPS controller board. This is written in QBasic (ver 4.5) and runs in DOS.  This is easily edited to run with whatever you have.. VGA color is suggested, but can be edited to run in any screen mode. It collects the data,  plots it on a graph and starts a new screen after 5 + hours.

The program will display the data while running in a "DOS" Window (W98 anyway) but won't log from the COM port unless in DOS. Way to go Bill !

It still has a few bugs... feel free to fix them ! I find it useful for long long long monitoring of the controller status.

The compiled (read BIGGER)  68,376 bytes is here...416.exe   Again thanks Bill !

This will do all of the above with the addition of plotting DAC and adding time stamps to the file which
can be exported (imported)  into a spreadsheet or whatever you have.  The file is "space delimited" and could be modified easily to provide "comma delimited"  or  "tab delimited". It also converts the 2's complement to voltage and adds a column in the output file. It's very easy to move it to "EXEL" for more fun.


 Some notes while waiting for the oven to stabilize

POWER AND PINOUT FOR  HP 10544/10811 OSC

EFC network for 10544/10811 HP oscillators

Brook Shera GPS Controller page

The UT+ DOCs 2057483 bytes

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