In a method of estimating the relative frequency uncertainty between two parts
of a mobile radio system able to communicate via two mobile radio networks at first
and second particular frequencies, each part of the mobile radio system has a clock
from which the particular frequency is derived and the uncertainty is estimated
by measuring the number of pulses of each of the clocks during a time window of
duration T starting at a time t. The method includes the following steps, with
the time window T sliding:
a) measuring the number of pulses of each of the clocks at n intermediate times
t+(T/n), t+(2T/n), . . . , t+(nT/n), where n is a positive integer,
b) storing the numbers of clock pulses thereby obtained in memory,
c) calculating the relative frequency uncertainty at time t+T from the numbers
of clock pulses stored in memory.