Re: [time-nuts] Oncore question

2008-11-25 Thread Yuri Ostry
Hello, Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 0:36:20, Morris Odell wrote: M In the meantime the discussion prompted a baord redesign to find some M real estate for a Li cell :-) Not necessarily... You can always get (or make) batery holder with wires and affix it with piece of adhesive foam or velcro to

Re: [time-nuts] Wavetek 3010

2008-11-25 Thread Dave Brown
There should still be a 3001 manual around the town somewhere- I sold two or three dead 'uns plus a copy of the manual about three years back to a local-likely he still has it/them stashed away. Think it was Doug, ZL2BCF over at Ch West. DaveB, CH CH, NZ - Original Message - From:

[time-nuts] Eclipses and atomic clocks

2008-11-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Time-nuts, I have to admit that I have an interest in gravitational anomalies. If anybody out there has nothing better to do, here is the stuff to spend some minutes. In early 90's a Chinese researcher (Zhou) opened a debate claiming to have observed anomalous behaviour on atomic clocks

Re: [time-nuts] Eclipses and atomic clocks

2008-11-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I got some private answers. Sorry, I've been concise not to bias your thoughts. Only, I would precise that for unlocked I mean a clock in which the crystal is free running not locked to Rb or Cs, and not to lock between clocks, Antonio I8IOV Time-nuts, I have to admit that I have an interest

Re: [time-nuts] Eclipses and atomic clocks

2008-11-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Time-nuts, I was wrong with my interpretation. The clocks were all working ok. Thanks. Antonio I8IOV I got some private answers. Sorry, I've been concise not to bias your thoughts. Only, I would precise that for unlocked I mean a clock in which the crystal is free running not locked to Rb or

Re: [time-nuts] Eclipses and atomic clocks

2008-11-25 Thread Bill Hawkins
There is an article in the Nov 22, 2008, issue of Science News (www.sciencenews.org) about variations in the decay rate of radioactive atoms. The title is Half-life (More or Less) where more or less is an idiom for approximately. There is no explanation for the observed variation. As you might

Re: [time-nuts] 10 MHz over optical fiber?

2008-11-25 Thread Paul Boven
Hi everyone, In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marco IK1ODO -2 writes: Hi all, I have to carry a 10 MHz standard frequency signal inside an EMC screened room via fiber optic cable. Not willing to re-invent the wheel, do something like an optical standard frequency link exist on the market? I

Re: [time-nuts] 10 MHz over optical fiber?

2008-11-25 Thread Scott Mace
In looking at the off-the-shelf boxes, jitter seemed to vary from ps range to tens of ns. Also, how stable is the 34km of fiber... One of the manufacturers I looked at had a 1550nm option, so it's probably not a stretch to get it on a 100GHz ITU grid channel or other CWDM channel. Scott

Re: [time-nuts] 10 MHz over optical fiber?

2008-11-25 Thread Lux, James P
I'm looking into something similar: transmitting an H-Maser signal (probably 10MHz) over some 34km using CWDM SFPs. At first glance this seems fairly uncomplicated: get some SFPs, and SFP connector + cage. Use a fast opamp/differential driver to drive the transmitting SFP, and use a

Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO using 100Hz

2008-11-25 Thread Joseph M Gwinn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/24/2008 08:31:22 PM: Bruce wrote: Analog time constants of several hours are generally considered impractical due to the lack of suitable low noise components principally high value resistors and capacitors. So how do you propose to get around this

[time-nuts] A loran-C signal movie...

2008-11-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
I thought some of you might get a kick out of this too: I set up a shell-script to snapshot the tek4014 window from my AducLoran receiver every few seconds. The I managed to get ImageMagick to turn a selection of those images into an animated gif:

[time-nuts] huntron tracker advice troubleshooting without schematic advise

2008-11-25 Thread Patrick
Hi Everyone I have consistently had success repairing laboratory instruments(my small business) when I have a schematic and I have consistently failed without one, lots of opportunities are slipping threw my fingers. I want to invest in tools that will help me troubleshoot without a schematic. I

Re: [time-nuts] 10 MHz over optical fiber?

2008-11-25 Thread Didier
By the time you get the signal from the maser through 34 km of fiber optic, what you get at the end might be not better than a decent GPSDO... Make sure you go through your drift and jitter budget before commiting. Didier -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [time-nuts] huntron tracker advice troubleshooting withoutschematic advise

2008-11-25 Thread WB6BNQ
Patrick, Please do not take this the wrong way, but having all the test equipment in the world is not going to help you troubleshoot if you do not have the foundation to begin with. The foundation I am referring to is both educational and experience. Obviously, experience takes time and is a