Re: [time-nuts] Racal-Dana 1992 switches

2008-03-16 Thread Ulrich Bangert
Matt, as you are saying this I remember that i got my first set of replacement pushbuttons from a German TOKO distributor! If I memember right the name was TOKO 3D and not TOKO 30 As you I found out that they don't manufacture switches anymore. All my efforts to find a supplier have not been

Re: [time-nuts] Sun Blade 100 as GPS-controlled NTP server

2008-03-16 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Matthew Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My first choice is my Sun Blade 100 as it is small, quiet, doesn't use... last time I looked at a dmesg from one of those, it looked just like my old hp laptop... but an ultrasparc cpu. unless OpenBSD happens to have

Re: [time-nuts] Sun Blade 100 as GPS-controlled NTP server

2008-03-16 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth Chris Kuethe at 2008-03-16 19:25... if nothing else, can we get you to try it for a week and document just how awful it is? (more than 5000ppm?) OK, I'll do it. Won't hurt to wipe that machine down anyway - it can do its current duties just as well with BSD as it can with Solaris.

[time-nuts] Racal 9480

2008-03-16 Thread David Hilton-Jones
I've recently acquired a RACL 9480 Time and Frequency Mainframe. It has a single card with 5 x 1MHz outputs. Does anybody know of a source of cards with 5 x 10MHz outputs? Thanks David, G4YTL ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To

Re: [time-nuts] Wanted to buy or borrow -- RFTG-m-XO L106A

2008-03-16 Thread Charles S. Osborne
John, I have my RFTGm-II-XO (L109) open on the workbench (I'm changing the 15MHz output to 10 MHz) and tried the sequence you mentioned below. Mine reacts similarly. However, if you reapply a 10 MHz external source to the 10 MHz REF In sma it locks after maybe 15 minutes and XO frequency

[time-nuts] PRN 7 launched

2008-03-16 Thread Magnus Danielson
Hi fellow time-nuts, I just want to bring to your attention that PRN 7 is now launched and part of the almenac. I suspect it will take a few weeks for it to be set healthy, but the constellation now has 32 sats and soon 32 in normal operation. Cheers, Magnus

Re: [time-nuts] Sun Blade 100 as GPS-controlled NTP server

2008-03-16 Thread Robert Vassar
Solaris has some pretty useful timing/timekeeping API's. You might want to consider OpenSolaris, it's not quite BSD free, but the CDDL is OSI approved. For some reason or another, Sun continues to use a 3.x derived NTP daemon. I know the maintainer. It's been a few years since I

Re: [time-nuts] Sun Blade 100 as GPS-controlled NTP server (Matthew Smith)

2008-03-16 Thread christopher hoover
Matthew Smith wrote: I have shelved the idea of building my time server with a single board PC for the time being - putting together a case, PSU, etc., and doing an install with no monitor (would have to make an adapter) is just too much like hard work. You can buy an assembled SBC in one

Re: [time-nuts] Wanted to buy or borrow -- RFTG-m-XO L106A

2008-03-16 Thread Scott Mace
I have experimented with several of the RFG units and found that the XOs will not clear the fault light if the OCXO has drifted too far. I was able to manually trim them and they worked well again. Perhaps a similar problem with your RFTG. Scott John Ackermann N8UR wrote: I'm not