I recall a rather heated debate from a number of years ago that was
about whether a GPS-locked clock was a true stratum-1 or whether it
should be considered a stratum 1.5 or something like that because it
didn't really have direct access to an atomic clock. Of course NTP only
has integer values for the stratum so the argument was somewhat moot,
but it was somewhat thought-provoking "at the time".
In the US, the surplus equipment market occasionally had GPS-trained
oscillators that could provide 10Mhz and 1pps clocking as well as NMEA
output. They were parts of CDMA cellphone base stations, each of which
had at least two. The one I have was made by HP. I also have one that
is a Motorola device that was used to synchronize simulcast transmitters
in repeaters. Unfortunately, both of these devices draw more electricity
than I am willing to spend on running them, here in San Diego which has
the most expensive electric rates in the country.
- Brian
On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 10:11:18AM +0100, Chris via 44Net wrote:
I have a few stratum 1 NTP servers as it’s an interest
of mine.