[time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO- Lady Heather question-having issues

I forgot to mention that you can also configure Lady Heather by editing the heather.cfg file. You can place the command line options that you want to use, one per line, in this file. The options must start in column 1 and begin with a '/' or '-', otherwise they will be considered as

[time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO- Lady Heather question-having issues

Version 4.0 does not work with anything but TSIP (Trimble) type receivers. The next release (v 4.10?) will work with all sorts of receivers. It will also compile for Windows, Linux, and now macOS (aka OS/X) (using XQuartz as the X11 server). If you can compile a Linux C program, macOS

Re: [time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO- Lady Heather question-having issues

Chris, Your GPSDO has a Bps, stop bit, and parity setting. That has to match the COM6 settings. If you know the default, or current, port setting for the GPSDO then you need to go into Windows Device Manager and set COM6 to use the same characteristics. To check/set the COM6 port

Re: [time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO- Lady Heather question-having issues

Fantastic thanks for the help guys!! I now have LH seeing com 6. Is it possible to check/change the baud rate of LH? When I connect up the Lucent box it says "No COM6 serial port data seen". I exited LH and opened Hyper terminal and with 9600 baud and COM6 I am getting a data stream that stops

Re: [time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO- Lady Heather question-having issues

Chris, Right click on the Lady Heather icon (not the KE5FX one). At the bottom of the list, click on "Properties". You will see a number of tabs. Click on the "Shortcut" tab. In the "Target" text box you should see "C:\Heather\heather.exe" if you installed LH on the C: drive. If that is the

Re: [time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO- Lady Heather question-having issues

Hi In Windows, the icon on the desktop has a set of properties. One of those is the command that clicking the icon executes. Adding the appropriate com info there will get it headed to the correct port. Bob > On Sep 24, 2016, at 1:30 PM, Chris Waldrup wrote: > > Hi, > >

Re: [time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO- Lady Heather question-having issues

Hi, I downloaded the latest version 4.00 beta of lady Heather on my win XP laptop. Installation creates two icons on my desktop. One says KE5FX TBolt (Seattle USA) and has the lady Heather icon and the other has the icon and simply says Lady Heather. When I try and open the Lady Heather icon

Re: [time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO

I also wanted to mention that I can't get the Lucent to communicate at all with the TBoltMon program so that's why I decided to try LadyHeather. I do hope I connected the cable pins right, I connected Lucent RS 422 TX pins to the USB to 422 adapters RX pins and the Lucent 422 RX pins to the

Re: [time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO

One additional point: Many ordinary PC sound cards do not have proper input filtering, so anything as fast as a PPS pulse will cause severe aliasing, even after it has been voltage-clamped to a level that will not overload the ADC. (Thus my mention of LP filtering under pulse conditioning.)

Re: [time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO

Bill wrote: If you could, would you see if you can take the pps out of your lucent box and use it to sync the pc sound card clock via continuous calibration for using SL for fx measurements. Maybe by lucent box pps output is bad. The PPS directly out of most GPSDOs is too fast for sound

Re: [time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO

3:48 PM To: time-nuts@febo.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO Bill wrote: > If you could, would you see if you can take the pps out of your lucent box > and use it to sync the pc sound card clock via continuous calibration for > using SL for fx measurements. Maybe by l

Re: [time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO

You may even be lucky enough to see brief periods of phase reversal on some of the amplifiers on the input chain, adding more edges. On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Charles Steinmetz wrote: > Bill wrote: > > If you could, would you see if you can take the pps out of

Re: [time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO

> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 12:55 PM > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO > > Hi > > I have had no problem using the PPS out of any of the Lucent boxes. They > trigger counters fine and a one sh

Re: [time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO

, > > Bill, WA2DVU > Cape May > > -Original Message- > From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Hal > Murray > Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 2:07 AM > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > Cc: hmur...@m

Re: [time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO

gt; Cape May > > -Original Message- > From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Hal Murray > Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 2:07 AM > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > Cc: hmur...@megapathdsl.net > Subject: Re: [time-nuts]

Re: [time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO

May -Original Message- From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Hal Murray Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 2:07 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Cc: hmur...@megapathdsl.net Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO > Is there a pin

Re: [time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO

This is your link: anyway, the J8 connector pinout: KS-24361 J8 - Diagnostic serial port with SCPI 9600,N,8,1 RXD+ 4 RXD- 8 TXD+ 5 TXD- 9 GND 3, 7 J6 RS422/PPS RXD+ 4 RXD- 8 no information on this RX line TXD+ 5 TXD- 9

Re: [time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO

> Is there a pinout posted somewhere for the Lucent box RS422 D sub 9 > connector? It's in the mail archives. Google for something like >time-nuts RS422 pinout< If you are interested in timing, you want the PPS signal too. (It won't be great over USB, but it might be fun to play with. You

Re: [time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO

ob >>> >>> >>>> On Sep 5, 2016, at 10:22 PM, Bill Hawkins <bill.i...@pobox.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Fake connections? Isn't a redundant system supposed to allow one box to >>>> be disconnected? >>>> >>

Re: [time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO

serial streams, like PicoScope. Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Bob Camp Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 6:13 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO Hi

Re: [time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO

gt;> >>> Bill Hawkins >>> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Bob >>> Camp >>> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2016 8:20 PM >>> To: Discussion of precise time an

[time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO

Yes. The device supports a SCPI command set. The next version of Lady Heather supports it... well at least my modified Z3812A does. You probably don't need an RS422 converter. You can cobble an RS-232 connection into the RS-422 port. This usually works, but some hardware serial ports

Re: [time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO

ions? Isn't a redundant system supposed to allow one box to >> be disconnected? >> >> Bill Hawkins >> >> -Original Message- >> From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Bob >> Camp >> Sent: Monday, September 05, 201

Re: [time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO

Message- > From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Bob > Camp > Sent: Monday, September 05, 2016 8:20 PM > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO > > Hi > > If you only

Re: [time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO

measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO Hi If you only have one box, you need to be sure the "fake" connections on the interconnect are correct. If they are not, you will not get it to operate correctly. There also is a survey process if you have not had it running in you

Re: [time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO

Hi If you only have one box, you need to be sure the “fake” connections on the interconnect are correct. If they are not, you will not get it to operate correctly. There also is a survey process if you have not had it running in your location before. That could take a few hours to a few

[time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO

Hi, I managed to get one of these Lucent boxes from a local ham that moved away a couple years back. I finally got around to modifying it today with Skip Withrow's mod to add 10 MHz output. I connected an antenna and after a few minutes the yellow and No GPS and Fault LEDs go out and the