Re: [time-nuts] u-blox NEO-M8T GPS initial tracking test

2017-02-10 Thread MLewis
With this NEO-M8T, I've even turned off everything but min=4/max=8 for GPS & GLO, and it won't accept any configuration for Galileo, let alone enable. And that's with the required NEMA of 4.1. Specifically, from u-center, the Signals checkbox for E1 - with a Signals selection listed as a

Re: [time-nuts] The USFS Frequency Standard...

2017-02-10 Thread paul swed
Burt you missed nothing. It would appear that all good intentions did not lead to new business. So there you go the old receivers useless and no new ones made. Certainly all of the old ones can be made to work using the cheatn dpskr shared with time nuts. But boy compared to the gpsdo's this lazy

Re: [time-nuts] The USFS Frequency Standard...

2017-02-10 Thread Bob Camp
Hi The simple answer is that WWVB still has the good old AM modulation on it. Any of the old *time* receivers will work just fine with the current broadcast format. There are a number of them that show up on the surplus market. The gotcha is those receivers that wanted to get both frequency and

[time-nuts] how many seconds out does GPS discipline being to improve Rubidium stability?

2017-02-10 Thread gkk gb
Hello experts, I need a Rubidium frequency reference for my company, and wonder if I also need to GPS discipline it. I characterize crystal-based OCXOs for ADEV, MTIE, and TDEV, and my longest measurement time is 100,000 seconds (28 hours). I'm looking at this graph from SRS for PRS10,

[time-nuts] u-blox NEO-M8T GPS initial tracking test

2017-02-10 Thread Mark Sims
The Ublox multi-GNSS receivers are incredibly picky about the channel allocations. Basically if you don't use the default channel min/max values they either won't work or are very flakey. I tried values other than min=4/max=8 for Galileo and nothing worked. Also, if you have SBAS enabled

[time-nuts] The USFS Frequency Standard...

2017-02-10 Thread Burt I. Weiner
Technically speaking, the United State Frequency Standard (USFS) is still considered to be transmitted via WWVB on 60 kHz, essentially making WWVB the USFS. But is WWVB still a usable frequency standard reference since they've gone to phase shifting their signal for time keeping purposes?

Re: [time-nuts] Lucent KS-24361 REF 0 standalone

2017-02-10 Thread paul swed
There was a fellow time nut that created an Arduino that would control the unit. It faked out what the GPS sent so the unit thought it was connected to a complete system. It works very well the the quality of the unit simply depends on the quality of the 1 pps from the GPS receiver chosen. I used

[time-nuts] HP 5061A Cesium Beam Std

2017-02-10 Thread cdelect
David, I would let it set on the peg in Cs off mode for a fewdays. It can take a long time for some tubes. An external HV supply can also be tried if it does not come down in a few days. If it does come down turn the switch to operate to turn the filaments on. The ion pump should peg again,

Re: [time-nuts] Line Frequency standard change - Possible ?

2017-02-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <043966d4-def4-4bc4-ba9d-ec46070fd...@comcast.net>, Peter Reilley wr ites: >Even in the old days a lot of devices were constant load, independent of >voltage (within reason). >Anything regulated such as electric heat, electric hot water, and >refrigerators are constant load.