[time-nuts] Xtendwave Everset chips update

2014-07-02 Thread paul swed
Emailed Pete at Everset about the ES100 and 200 chips and unfortunately only chip dies are available. I am good but not that good. He suggests that someday a vendor will be selling a clock and thats the only reasonable option that will be available. All in all completely unattractive, as someone

Re: [time-nuts] Xtendwave Everset chips update

2014-07-02 Thread Bob Camp
Hi If you want to go a bit crazy, there are places that will package up die for you. Depending on the resulting package, cost is in the $0.30 to $20 per part range. Most of the places will hit you with a ~ $500 setup charge and are unlikely to deal in less than 1,000 piece lots (unless things

Re: [time-nuts] Xtendwave Everset chips update

2014-07-02 Thread paul swed
Bob Funny you mention that. I actually have a remote chance of actually doing that. I know a guy who knows a guy... I really don't want to get tangled in that total distraction actually. The value of the chip in at least a predictive wwvb d-psk-r is that you could easily obtain the nasty DST data.

Re: [time-nuts] Xtendwave Everset chips update

2014-07-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message cad2jfahocx5nyhmzjgrgwb4oljawumvwm7fvocym_y6agaa...@mail.gmail.com, paul swed writes: Though if the clocks are in the $20 range thats a different discussion. Somehow I suspect its the $1000 range. No honest clue though. In europe a Swiss company put a weather-transmission on DCF77

Re: [time-nuts] Xtendwave Everset chips update

2014-07-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 23298.1404324...@critter.freebsd.dk, Poul-Henning Kamp writes: In message cad2jfahocx5nyhmzjgrgwb4oljawumvwm7fvocym_y6agaa...@mail.gmail.com, paul swed writes: Though if the clocks are in the $20 range thats a different discussion. Somehow I suspect its the $1000 range. No honest

[time-nuts] Xtendwave is now everset

2014-06-04 Thread paul swed
To time-nuts yes they live on. Yes we are. The company name and address have changed. See below. Thanks. Pete. Pete Nelsen Applications Engineer EverSet Technologies, Inc. 1201 Richardson Dr. Suite 205 Richardson, TX 75080-4418 Regards Paul WB8TSL

Re: [time-nuts] Xtendwave is now everset

2014-06-04 Thread Pete Lancashire
The old company was a Michigan LLC operating out of Texas http://www.dleg.state.mi.us/bcs_corp/dt_llc.asp?id_nbr=D2759Jname_entity=XW,%20LLC http://www.wysk.com/index/texas/dallas/fdn998f/xw-llc/profile and what TX has

Re: [time-nuts] Xtendwave

2012-03-17 Thread shalimr9
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurementtime-nuts@febo.com Reply-To: ehy...@arcor.de, Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Xtendwave At least in the USA one can patent pending even the neigboor's cat. It looks in Germany

Re: [time-nuts] Xtendwave

2012-03-16 Thread Cliff Sojourner
On 2012-03-15 20:53, Sam Reaves wrote: WWVB It seems that a commercial venture is driving this. Probably with all of the research at taxpayer expense. See: http://www.xtendwave.com/HD%20Time.pdf wow, in the document - this really bothers me First and only receiver for the new WWVB signal

Re: [time-nuts] Xtendwave

2012-03-16 Thread gary
The government sanctioning a proprietary modulation scheme isn't without precedent. Dolby stereo in the old analog TV. That annoying IBOC scheme used for digital FM and AM. [It is QRM.] Of course do I approve of this? Hell no. Form a committee and define a standard. On 3/15/2012 11:12 PM,

Re: [time-nuts] Xtendwave

2012-03-16 Thread ehydra
At least in the USA one can patent pending even the neigboor's cat. It looks in Germany we go now the same way. About 100 years ago one has to be shown a functional device for patenting it. I think this was a really good idea. - Henry Chuck Harris schrieb: I was of the understanding that

Re: [time-nuts] Xtendwave

2012-03-16 Thread Jim Lux
On 3/16/12 5:35 AM, Chuck Harris wrote: I was of the understanding that SBIR's results are in the public domain that however, doesn't mean that a patented receiver that uses the SBIR results cannot be had. You too can use the results of this SBIR and patent your receiver's special features.

[time-nuts] Xtendwave

2012-03-15 Thread Sam Reaves
WWVB It seems that a commercial venture is driving this. Probably with all of the research at taxpayer expense. See: http://www.xtendwave.com/HD%20Time.pdf also www.extendwave.com ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go

Re: [time-nuts] Xtendwave

2012-03-15 Thread Don Latham
Xtendwave is a fabless semiconductor company with technologies that improve capacity and range in wired and wireless networks . . . translated: We thought up something that works sort of on paper and we want somebody to do all the grunting to make it really work and just maybe it really will . .