Re: [time-nuts] Airraft Ping Timing

2014-03-25 Thread Pieter ten Pierick
Hi, Yes, and there was an early military positioning system, roughly 1960s / 1970s that worked on Dopplar also. The name escapes me at the moment. I think it is Transit. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_(satellite) Greetings, Pieter. -John = This is how ELT

Re: [time-nuts] Is possible precise 1pps?

2013-03-18 Thread Pieter ten Pierick
Hi, On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 23:51:53 +0100 (CET) hutt...@seznam.cz wrote: NEO-6M buy for less than $ 10 including shipping from China, NEO-6T is unfortunately expensive, and frankly I do not know who sells it for at least a little reasonable prices. The -T models are not that expensive. The

Re: [time-nuts] The GPS navigation is the weakest point,

2011-12-15 Thread Pieter ten Pierick
Hi, Of course, but then when you switch on your transmitter you are on your own. Considering the speed of a drone (700Km/h?) you need a great coverage, so much RF power out. Easy: Use a dish antenna on the transmitter. Very directional with large ampification. If using a 'moderate' opening

Re: [time-nuts] Precisione GPS based led clock

2011-11-03 Thread Pieter ten Pierick
Hi, Hi Tom, How about using Binary for the last couple of digits? 4 LEDs for a digit in BCD. Saves on pins and wiring. I had the same idea, although my idea was to just make it completely binary and use OCR on the photograph to find the time. Maybe adding 2 surrounding always-on other colored

Re: [time-nuts] Lyttleton Time Ball completly collapsed

2011-06-14 Thread Pieter ten Pierick
Pity... Hopefully no one was working on the dismantling when nature decided to help. Soon on eBay - Slightly used timeball - local pickup only... You missed the: Some assembly required ;-P Greetings, Pieter. ___ time-nuts mailing list --

Re: [time-nuts] GPS Filter

2011-03-08 Thread Pieter ten Pierick
Hi, GPS phased arrays aren't new, nor is it necessary to physically steer the antennae within the aray: http://www.navsys.com/papers/0005004.pdf But would such a system help with the LNA overload due to a local transmitter? I would expect that using separately steered antennas with good

Re: [time-nuts] Do I have a defective thunderbolt?

2010-11-19 Thread Pieter ten Pierick
Hi, Both slashes work fine for me! That is an artifact of IE on Windows. According to RFC 1738, URLs use the '/' to separate components of a hierarchy. Because MS-DOS (and therefor Windows...) uses '\' as a path separator, people using Windows will type the wrong separator in an URL. That is

Re: [time-nuts] Have Quick Tools

2010-08-23 Thread Pieter ten Pierick
Hey, On Aug 23, 2010, at 7:52 AM, Brooke Clarke wrote: Has anyone made a PIC based Have Quick device to either compare two have quick outputs, generate a HQ data stream or read a HQ stream? I've been interested in playing with the HQ outputs of my HQ-compatible GPS receivers for a long

[time-nuts] What FreeBSD version for Soekris net4501 NTP server?

2010-03-13 Thread Pieter ten Pierick
Hello, Do people on the list have a preference for using a specific version of FreeBSD for a ntpd/ntpns server running on a Soekris net4501 board? I finally ordered (and promptly received) the Soekris net4501 board that I wanted to connect to my Thunderbolt. Having to start fresh (not

Re: [time-nuts] iPhone app

2010-02-17 Thread Pieter ten Pierick
Hi, On 17 Feb 2010, at 07:37, Thomas A. Frank wrote: I don't believe that there is a 1pps available to the OS. The GPS chipset seems to provide a very limited amount of data to the phone. For example, there does not appear to be any way to get satellite status info from the GPS chip to

Re: [time-nuts] GPS from a window seat

2009-10-01 Thread Pieter ten Pierick
Hello Bill, Group, I'll be flying around the world from Minnesota, USA, to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to give a talk on industrial process control. Bought a Garmin 60CSx handheld GPS so I could tell precisely when I crossed the date line (a man's gotta have some goal in life). Is this

Re: [time-nuts] RoHS Solder

2009-09-25 Thread Pieter ten Pierick
Hello, China have set up a pilot plant to extract Uraniun from coal fired power station ash. The concentration is the same as medium grade ore, but they don't have to mine it. If a US nuclear power station relased as much radiocative material as the average coal fired one it would be shut

Re: [time-nuts] HP Journal 10811 article

2007-10-21 Thread Pieter ten Pierick
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Hello Jose, On 18 Oct 2007, at 20:28, Jose Manuel wrote: Mark, I tried it again but the problem persists with this link on page 20. I just downloaded it from the HP link and can read page 20 without problems using