Re: [time-nuts] Help needed with frequency standard

2020-09-30 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi

> On Sep 30, 2020, at 11:45 AM, Luiz Alberto Saba  wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Em 29/09/2020 14:08, Bob kb8tq escreveu:
>> Hi
>> 
>> You have a lot of stuff that runs off of GPS L1. Any “common mode” issues
>> (like ionospheric disturbances) will propagate into all of them. What impact 
>> that
>> has on each one is very much a “that depends” sort of thing. The firmware and
>> filtering quickly get into the act …. They all will wander, just not in 
>> exactly the
>> same way.
>> 
>> The PRS-10 does have an internal “sync” capability. The main purpose for the
>> input is to simply calibrate the device from time to time. It is not really 
>> intended
>> to replace a GPSDO.
>> 
>> Any of the devices you have are fine for putting the PRS-10 on frequency to 
>> calibrate
>> it. All are equally likely to wander around. The PRS-10 will not help much 
>> with this wandering.
> I was just wanderng what is the best thing to do, with the stuff that I 
> already have, in order to have a poor substitute for a cesium...

A GPSDO, pretty much by it’s self *is* the best “poor substitute for a cesium”. 
The biggest improvement
over a stock part would be to go to L1 / L2. Past that you get into fancy loops 
and a *lot* of work.

Bob

>> 
>> You can look at all of this with something like a TAPR TICC. To look at lots 
>> of them
>> at once, a set of TAPR TICC’s would be nice to have …..
> I have just one...
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
>>> On Sep 29, 2020, at 11:02 AM, Luiz Alberto Saba  
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi guys
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I want a stable & reliable frequency standard.
>>> 
>>> I do NOT have a cesium beam.
>>> 
>>> I DO have a lot of gpsdos and some rubidiums.
>>> 
>>> Since I have one PRS-10 and this device has a 1 pps input, you already know 
>>> what I'm thinking...
>>> 
>>> What I have:
>>> 
>>> Trimble Thunderbolt
>>> 
>>> Trimble UCCM
>>> 
>>> Symmetricom UCCM
>>> 
>>> Samsung UCCM
>>> 
>>> HP 58503A
>>> 
>>> TruePosition
>>> 
>>> Oscilloquartz Star 4+
>>> 
>>> and a little board with a ublox LEA 5T and 1 pps output.
>>> 
>>> Which device is more suitable for disciplining the PRS-10?
>>> 
>>> My gps antenna setup is:
>>> 
>>> Symmetricom 58532A on the top of the water tank of my building with a very 
>>> good sky view.
>>> 
>>> A Raven Industries LA-21-1575-100-T. About 50 m of RG6.
>>> 
>>> A Symmetricom antenna distributor (don't remember the code but is the 4 
>>> outputs one)
>>> 
>>> By the way... Someone knows the delay of the inline amplifier and the 
>>> antenna distributor? (for Lady Heather)
>>> 
>>> Mark Sims is out there reading this list? I'm having problems with LH 6.14 
>>> and the UCCM units.
>>> 
>>> Any help you can give me will be welcomed.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Luiz Alberto Saba
>>> 
>>> from Santos - São Paulo - Brazil
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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Re: [time-nuts] Help needed with frequency standard

2020-09-30 Thread Luiz Alberto Saba



Em 29/09/2020 14:08, Bob kb8tq escreveu:

Hi

You have a lot of stuff that runs off of GPS L1. Any “common mode” issues
(like ionospheric disturbances) will propagate into all of them. What impact 
that
has on each one is very much a “that depends” sort of thing. The firmware and
filtering quickly get into the act …. They all will wander, just not in exactly 
the
same way.

The PRS-10 does have an internal “sync” capability. The main purpose for the
input is to simply calibrate the device from time to time. It is not really 
intended
to replace a GPSDO.

Any of the devices you have are fine for putting the PRS-10 on frequency to 
calibrate
it. All are equally likely to wander around. The PRS-10 will not help much with 
this wandering.
I was just wanderng what is the best thing to do, with the stuff that I 
already have, in order to have a poor substitute for a cesium...


You can look at all of this with something like a TAPR TICC. To look at lots of 
them
at once, a set of TAPR TICC’s would be nice to have …..

I have just one...


Bob


On Sep 29, 2020, at 11:02 AM, Luiz Alberto Saba  wrote:

Hi guys


I want a stable & reliable frequency standard.

I do NOT have a cesium beam.

I DO have a lot of gpsdos and some rubidiums.

Since I have one PRS-10 and this device has a 1 pps input, you already know 
what I'm thinking...

What I have:

Trimble Thunderbolt

Trimble UCCM

Symmetricom UCCM

Samsung UCCM

HP 58503A

TruePosition

Oscilloquartz Star 4+

and a little board with a ublox LEA 5T and 1 pps output.

Which device is more suitable for disciplining the PRS-10?

My gps antenna setup is:

Symmetricom 58532A on the top of the water tank of my building with a very good 
sky view.

A Raven Industries LA-21-1575-100-T. About 50 m of RG6.

A Symmetricom antenna distributor (don't remember the code but is the 4 outputs 
one)

By the way... Someone knows the delay of the inline amplifier and the antenna 
distributor? (for Lady Heather)

Mark Sims is out there reading this list? I'm having problems with LH 6.14 and 
the UCCM units.

Any help you can give me will be welcomed.


Thanks


Luiz Alberto Saba

from Santos - São Paulo - Brazil



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Re: [time-nuts] Help needed with frequency standard

2020-09-30 Thread Luiz Alberto Saba

Em 30/09/2020 11:06, Dana Whitlow escreveu:

Hello Luis and Mark,

Luis, am I correct in supposing that the 6685 is basically a GPSDO 
with a 10MHz output

that you are using as an external reference for a counter (the CNT-90)?

Nope. It'a counter/calibrator originally developed by Pendulum for Philips.
Look at: 
http://www.testequipmenthq.com/datasheets/FLUKE-PM6685R-Datasheet.pdf

My experience with a  not-locked-to-PPS  PRS-10 seems to suggest that
a 2-hour measurement run is not sufficient to show the whole story.  A day
(or even several days) is more appropriate.

Also see Bob's (KB8TQ's) comments on the Rb's stability, submitted to
the group just now on 9/30/2020.  I concur fully with his observations.

I have the PRS-10 (a used telecom variety which does not have the PPS
locking capability), and a Symmetricom L-Pro.

I also have 2 or 3 ancient T'bolts and a fairly new CNS Clock II.  All of
these are GPSDOs but with PPS outputs as well.  The CNS Clock II's
PPS output is largely corrected for sawtooth error by an internal HW
mechanism.  I'm not so sure what, if any. sawtooth mitigation the T'bolts
may have.

My interest is almost exclusively in phase, not frequency per se.  I view
a source as being a phase ramp generator whose phase slope is simply
what most folks would call "the frequency".   The question that I always
want to ask about a source is: "What is the rms variation in phase between
the DUT and an ideal source putting out the same average frequency, when
measured over a specified frequency band?".

I have never been enthusiastic about frequency counters or time interval
counters because of my belief that these devices only sample the phase
at a few selected zero crossings of the input signal ("selected" by 
the pulse
rate), and ignore everything that goes on in between. Instead I prefer 
direct

phase measurements of a reasonably high frequency CW signal such as
the common 10MHz "reference" frequency.

So I tend to record IQ signals derived from quadrature demodulators in one
form or another.  For about two years my favorite was a home-brew affair
built from Mini-Circuits components.  This certainly had its warts, 
principally

phase measurement errors due to quadrature phase error in the demod,
drifty DC offsets in the I & Q signals, etc, but it was good enough 
for a lot of
learning and development of improved techniques.  Then, much more 
recently,
I "discovered" the Signal Hound family of USB spectrum analyzers.  The 
model
I selected was the lowest bandwidth model they sell, the SA44B.  I had 
ignored

them for years, thinking that the baseband phase noise of such inexpensive
units would be really awful.  But then I got a chance to do hands-on 
evaluation
of one, and discovered that things were not bad at all /provided that 
the external/
/reference was being driven by a stable source./ The /internal/ 
reference, however,
was about as bad as I had expected.   Anyway, the SA4B has quite a 
variety of
tricks up its sleeve, including an excellent IR recorder (when 
operating in ZERO-
SPAN mode).  This recorder can stream IQ to disk with no particular 
limit to the
file size as long as you don't fill up the O/S partition with data 
thereby crashing

your computer.   I always record to an external SSD to avoid this risk.

Then, with an IQ recording on file, I can leisurely post process to 
put a narrow-
band filter around the signal of interest, convert to unwrapped phase 
versus
time, and make a plot.  I can measure slope value(s) on that plot to 
get localized

frequency information, or whatever I want to see.

Oops!  Gotta run now.

Dana








On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 7:11 AM Luiz Alberto Saba > wrote:


Dana & Mark:

I have a PM-6685R counter and a CNT-90.
I "calibrated" the rubidium of thr 6685 the following way:
Use the output of 6685 to feed the timebase of CNT-90 and measure,
using
statistical mode, 1 measure/s, for 7200 sec the output of my
thunderbolt
in a "calm" period of the day. Then I adjust the rubidium utnil
CNT-90
reads 10.000.000.000.000 after 2 hours. Time consuming and a patience
test, but I could not think in other way to calibrate my 6685 and
CNT-90.
Well... Using the same CNT-90 with the same rubidium timebase from
6685
to read the output of my PRS-10 connected to a 1 pps source,
during the
same 2 hours, the p-p variance of the reading was about 3 mHz.
It's low?
yes, but i was expecting much less. Something in the uHz range.
I did something wrong or that's it?

Em 29/09/2020 23:23, Dana Whitlow escreveu:
> Mark:
>
> I don't have a PPS syncable PRS-10 yet, but will probably be
getting one
> within a
> year or so.  My expectations are not great, however, because I
already know
> that
> the received GPS time has diurnal wiggles to the tune of up to
10's of nsec
> p-p.
> And I also know that the PRS-10 (and 

Re: [time-nuts] Help needed with frequency standard

2020-09-30 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi

> On Sep 29, 2020, at 10:23 PM, Dana Whitlow  wrote:
> 
> Mark:
> 
> I don't have a PPS syncable PRS-10 yet, but will probably be getting one
> within a
> year or so.  My expectations are not great, however, because I already know
> that
> the received GPS time has diurnal wiggles to the tune of up to 10's of nsec
> p-p.
> And I also know that the PRS-10 (and probably all others in its price
> class) make
> seemingly random frequency "adjustments" on a time scale of just a few
> hours.
> For a GPS disciplining loop to fix both, it would have to have a loop time
> constant
> long compared to a day on the one hand, yet a loop time constant of well
> under a
> day on the other.  It's kind of tough to have one loop with both properties
> at once.
> 
> Dana


Rb’s do not have super duper performance at short tau. At least not compared to
reasonably good OCXO’s. An OCXO with a 1 second ADEV below 1x10^-12 is
not terribly hard to find. Your “typical” Rb ( = not a 5065) is going to be 10X 
worse
than that at 1 second. Indeed the PRS-10 (by design) has some interesting issues
in the 1 to 10 second region ( = it is worse than several others out there …). 

If you are looking for good short term, an OCXO is cheaper to buy and cheaper
to run ( = lower power ). What you are after very much dictates what makes 
sense.
There is no “one size fits all” solution.

A fancy Rb GPSDO will have some method of stretching the disciplining process 
out
*way* past what anb OCXO based part would do. Some way of looking at day to day
(or couple day) readings is needed. It still will not take out all of the daily 
“wobble” in
GPS, but it will attenuate it some. 

Indeed an L1 / L2 based part ( possibly using a ZED-F9P (or T) ) could take out 
all
the wobble if corrections are applied. That’s not as crazy a thing as it once 
was. There
would be a bit of lag to deal with so it’s not quite a slam dunk. 

Since Rb’s do not typically have super temperature performance ( = they are not
a Cs standard …) some sort of solution also needs to be applied in that area if
you will be running a really long loop. Otherwise all you will do is track your
HVAC system :)

Fun !!

Bob



> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 1:22 PM Mark Spencer 
> wrote:
> 
>> I would be curious to hear from those who have a GPS disciplined PRS 10 in
>> their home time labs.   I was never that impressed with the performance of
>> one of mine in that configuration from a 10 MHz ADEV perspective (I did try
>> making a few parameter changes.) I ended up essentially free running mine
>> but would occasionally apply a 1pps signal to mine as means of adjusting
>> its output frequency on an as needed basis.
>> 
>> I may try this again with a different PRS10 (the 1pps output on the unit
>> in question failed a few years ago but I have a spare that has been
>> recently put into service.)   Perhaps the second unit will work better.
>> Both units were obtained via the usual auction site.
>> 
>> Mark Spencer
>> m...@alignedsolutions.com
>> 604 762 4099
>> 
>>> On Sep 29, 2020, at 8:02 AM, Luiz Alberto Saba 
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi guys
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I want a stable & reliable frequency standard.
>>> 
>>> I do NOT have a cesium beam.
>>> 
>>> I DO have a lot of gpsdos and some rubidiums.
>>> 
>>> Since I have one PRS-10 and this device has a 1 pps input, you already
>> know what I'm thinking...
>>> 
>>> What I have:
>>> 
>>> Trimble Thunderbolt
>>> 
>>> Trimble UCCM
>>> 
>>> Symmetricom UCCM
>>> 
>>> Samsung UCCM
>>> 
>>> HP 58503A
>>> 
>>> TruePosition
>>> 
>>> Oscilloquartz Star 4+
>>> 
>>> and a little board with a ublox LEA 5T and 1 pps output.
>>> 
>>> Which device is more suitable for disciplining the PRS-10?
>>> 
>>> My gps antenna setup is:
>>> 
>>> Symmetricom 58532A on the top of the water tank of my building with a
>> very good sky view.
>>> 
>>> A Raven Industries LA-21-1575-100-T. About 50 m of RG6.
>>> 
>>> A Symmetricom antenna distributor (don't remember the code but is the 4
>> outputs one)
>>> 
>>> By the way... Someone knows the delay of the inline amplifier and the
>> antenna distributor? (for Lady Heather)
>>> 
>>> Mark Sims is out there reading this list? I'm having problems with LH
>> 6.14 and the UCCM units.
>>> 
>>> Any help you can give me will be welcomed.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Luiz Alberto Saba
>>> 
>>> from Santos - São Paulo - Brazil
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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Re: [time-nuts] Help needed with frequency standard

2020-09-29 Thread Dana Whitlow
Mark:

I don't have a PPS syncable PRS-10 yet, but will probably be getting one
within a
year or so.  My expectations are not great, however, because I already know
that
the received GPS time has diurnal wiggles to the tune of up to 10's of nsec
p-p.
And I also know that the PRS-10 (and probably all others in its price
class) make
seemingly random frequency "adjustments" on a time scale of just a few
hours.
For a GPS disciplining loop to fix both, it would have to have a loop time
constant
long compared to a day on the one hand, yet a loop time constant of well
under a
day on the other.  It's kind of tough to have one loop with both properties
at once.

Dana


On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 1:22 PM Mark Spencer 
wrote:

> I would be curious to hear from those who have a GPS disciplined PRS 10 in
> their home time labs.   I was never that impressed with the performance of
> one of mine in that configuration from a 10 MHz ADEV perspective (I did try
> making a few parameter changes.) I ended up essentially free running mine
> but would occasionally apply a 1pps signal to mine as means of adjusting
> its output frequency on an as needed basis.
>
> I may try this again with a different PRS10 (the 1pps output on the unit
> in question failed a few years ago but I have a spare that has been
> recently put into service.)   Perhaps the second unit will work better.
>  Both units were obtained via the usual auction site.
>
> Mark Spencer
> m...@alignedsolutions.com
> 604 762 4099
>
> > On Sep 29, 2020, at 8:02 AM, Luiz Alberto Saba 
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi guys
> >
> >
> > I want a stable & reliable frequency standard.
> >
> > I do NOT have a cesium beam.
> >
> > I DO have a lot of gpsdos and some rubidiums.
> >
> > Since I have one PRS-10 and this device has a 1 pps input, you already
> know what I'm thinking...
> >
> > What I have:
> >
> > Trimble Thunderbolt
> >
> > Trimble UCCM
> >
> > Symmetricom UCCM
> >
> > Samsung UCCM
> >
> > HP 58503A
> >
> > TruePosition
> >
> > Oscilloquartz Star 4+
> >
> > and a little board with a ublox LEA 5T and 1 pps output.
> >
> > Which device is more suitable for disciplining the PRS-10?
> >
> > My gps antenna setup is:
> >
> > Symmetricom 58532A on the top of the water tank of my building with a
> very good sky view.
> >
> > A Raven Industries LA-21-1575-100-T. About 50 m of RG6.
> >
> > A Symmetricom antenna distributor (don't remember the code but is the 4
> outputs one)
> >
> > By the way... Someone knows the delay of the inline amplifier and the
> antenna distributor? (for Lady Heather)
> >
> > Mark Sims is out there reading this list? I'm having problems with LH
> 6.14 and the UCCM units.
> >
> > Any help you can give me will be welcomed.
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > Luiz Alberto Saba
> >
> > from Santos - São Paulo - Brazil
> >
> >
> >
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Re: [time-nuts] Help needed with frequency standard

2020-09-29 Thread ew via time-nuts
Look at the SRS FS740 and you get an idea how "good" the PRS10 Rb is! Bert 
Kehren In a message dated 9/29/2020 2:22:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
m...@alignedsolutions.com writes: 
I would be curious to hear from those who have a GPS disciplined PRS 10 in 
their home time labs.  I was never that impressed with the performance of one 
of mine in that configuration from a 10 MHz ADEV perspective (I did try making 
a few parameter changes.) I ended up essentially free running mine but would 
occasionally apply a 1pps signal to mine as means of adjusting its output 
frequency on an as needed basis.  

I may try this again with a different PRS10 (the 1pps output on the unit in 
question failed a few years ago but I have a spare that has been recently put 
into service.)  Perhaps the second unit will work better.  Both units were 
obtained via the usual auction site.

Mark Spencer
m...@alignedsolutions.com
604 762 4099

> On Sep 29, 2020, at 8:02 AM, Luiz Alberto Saba  wrote:
> 
> Hi guys
> 
> 
> I want a stable & reliable frequency standard.
> 
> I do NOT have a cesium beam.
> 
> I DO have a lot of gpsdos and some rubidiums.
> 
> Since I have one PRS-10 and this device has a 1 pps input, you already know 
> what I'm thinking...
> 
> What I have:
> 
> Trimble Thunderbolt
> 
> Trimble UCCM
> 
> Symmetricom UCCM
> 
> Samsung UCCM
> 
> HP 58503A
> 
> TruePosition
> 
> Oscilloquartz Star 4+
> 
> and a little board with a ublox LEA 5T and 1 pps output.
> 
> Which device is more suitable for disciplining the PRS-10?
> 
> My gps antenna setup is:
> 
> Symmetricom 58532A on the top of the water tank of my building with a very 
> good sky view.
> 
> A Raven Industries LA-21-1575-100-T. About 50 m of RG6.
> 
> A Symmetricom antenna distributor (don't remember the code but is the 4 
> outputs one)
> 
> By the way... Someone knows the delay of the inline amplifier and the antenna 
> distributor? (for Lady Heather)
> 
> Mark Sims is out there reading this list? I'm having problems with LH 6.14 
> and the UCCM units.
> 
> Any help you can give me will be welcomed.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Luiz Alberto Saba
> 
> from Santos - São Paulo - Brazil
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [time-nuts] Help needed with frequency standard

2020-09-29 Thread Mark Spencer
I would be curious to hear from those who have a GPS disciplined PRS 10 in 
their home time labs.   I was never that impressed with the performance of one 
of mine in that configuration from a 10 MHz ADEV perspective (I did try making 
a few parameter changes.) I ended up essentially free running mine but would 
occasionally apply a 1pps signal to mine as means of adjusting its output 
frequency on an as needed basis.   

I may try this again with a different PRS10 (the 1pps output on the unit in 
question failed a few years ago but I have a spare that has been recently put 
into service.)   Perhaps the second unit will work better.   Both units were 
obtained via the usual auction site.

Mark Spencer
m...@alignedsolutions.com
604 762 4099

> On Sep 29, 2020, at 8:02 AM, Luiz Alberto Saba  wrote:
> 
> Hi guys
> 
> 
> I want a stable & reliable frequency standard.
> 
> I do NOT have a cesium beam.
> 
> I DO have a lot of gpsdos and some rubidiums.
> 
> Since I have one PRS-10 and this device has a 1 pps input, you already know 
> what I'm thinking...
> 
> What I have:
> 
> Trimble Thunderbolt
> 
> Trimble UCCM
> 
> Symmetricom UCCM
> 
> Samsung UCCM
> 
> HP 58503A
> 
> TruePosition
> 
> Oscilloquartz Star 4+
> 
> and a little board with a ublox LEA 5T and 1 pps output.
> 
> Which device is more suitable for disciplining the PRS-10?
> 
> My gps antenna setup is:
> 
> Symmetricom 58532A on the top of the water tank of my building with a very 
> good sky view.
> 
> A Raven Industries LA-21-1575-100-T. About 50 m of RG6.
> 
> A Symmetricom antenna distributor (don't remember the code but is the 4 
> outputs one)
> 
> By the way... Someone knows the delay of the inline amplifier and the antenna 
> distributor? (for Lady Heather)
> 
> Mark Sims is out there reading this list? I'm having problems with LH 6.14 
> and the UCCM units.
> 
> Any help you can give me will be welcomed.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Luiz Alberto Saba
> 
> from Santos - São Paulo - Brazil
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [time-nuts] Help needed with frequency standard

2020-09-29 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi

You have a lot of stuff that runs off of GPS L1. Any “common mode” issues
(like ionospheric disturbances) will propagate into all of them. What impact 
that
has on each one is very much a “that depends” sort of thing. The firmware and
filtering quickly get into the act …. They all will wander, just not in exactly 
the
same way.

The PRS-10 does have an internal “sync” capability. The main purpose for the
input is to simply calibrate the device from time to time. It is not really 
intended
to replace a GPSDO. 

Any of the devices you have are fine for putting the PRS-10 on frequency to 
calibrate
it. All are equally likely to wander around. The PRS-10 will not help much with 
this wandering. 

You can look at all of this with something like a TAPR TICC. To look at lots of 
them
at once, a set of TAPR TICC’s would be nice to have …..

Bob

> On Sep 29, 2020, at 11:02 AM, Luiz Alberto Saba  wrote:
> 
> Hi guys
> 
> 
> I want a stable & reliable frequency standard.
> 
> I do NOT have a cesium beam.
> 
> I DO have a lot of gpsdos and some rubidiums.
> 
> Since I have one PRS-10 and this device has a 1 pps input, you already know 
> what I'm thinking...
> 
> What I have:
> 
> Trimble Thunderbolt
> 
> Trimble UCCM
> 
> Symmetricom UCCM
> 
> Samsung UCCM
> 
> HP 58503A
> 
> TruePosition
> 
> Oscilloquartz Star 4+
> 
> and a little board with a ublox LEA 5T and 1 pps output.
> 
> Which device is more suitable for disciplining the PRS-10?
> 
> My gps antenna setup is:
> 
> Symmetricom 58532A on the top of the water tank of my building with a very 
> good sky view.
> 
> A Raven Industries LA-21-1575-100-T. About 50 m of RG6.
> 
> A Symmetricom antenna distributor (don't remember the code but is the 4 
> outputs one)
> 
> By the way... Someone knows the delay of the inline amplifier and the antenna 
> distributor? (for Lady Heather)
> 
> Mark Sims is out there reading this list? I'm having problems with LH 6.14 
> and the UCCM units.
> 
> Any help you can give me will be welcomed.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Luiz Alberto Saba
> 
> from Santos - São Paulo - Brazil
> 
> 
> 
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