Re: [time-nuts] Cathodeon TCXOs??

2009-05-25 Thread Robert Atkinson
Part of Cathodeon still exist in Cambridge. Not crystals unfortunatly, but the lamp and discharge tube business. They are now part of Heraeus. www.cathodeon.com still links you to the website. It might still be worth an email, there might be some old hands left. I know of one case were an

Re: [time-nuts] FreeBSD, NetBSD, or Minix-III?

2009-05-25 Thread Mike Naruta AA8K
Some (Penrose, Nottale) suggest that time may be discrete rather than continuous. Though 10E-43 second might be difficult to measure. Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: It is a perfect example of what I said earlier: people cannot grasp that time do not come in parcels...

[time-nuts] Source for GPS connector?

2009-05-25 Thread Dan Veeneman
Hello, I have a couple of Motorola Remote GPS units (part number RWPRF12104) and am looking for the mating connector. The unit has a Deutsch MMP 21C-2212P1 locking connector, which has twelve pins. I'm looking for the connector that mates to this one. According to the Deutsch numbering scheme,

Re: [time-nuts] Source for GPS connector?

2009-05-25 Thread Robert Atkinson
Hi Dan, This is the same connector as the Trimble Palisade and Acutime receivers. Try http://uk.farnell.com/deutsch/imc21-2212x/receptacle-inline-12way/dp/890108 They also have a US office (they own Newark). Regards, Robert G8RPI. --- On Mon, 25/5/09, Dan Veeneman d...@olphschool.org wrote:

[time-nuts] Time Signals on TV signals

2009-05-25 Thread Bill Hawkins
Aficionados of accurate time, I have two Panasonic DVD TV recorders, a DMR-EZ27 and 28. They were set to automatically sync time to a TV station. This worked fine until a few months ago. Now they are on manual time, but, of course, they drift. Tried to turn automatic time setting back on this

Re: [time-nuts] Time Signals on TV signals

2009-05-25 Thread Chuck Harris
Hi Bill, I have no direct knowledge of the situation, but I have noticed that in my area the time signals seem to piggyback on the PBS stations, and in my area many of the PBS stations have ditched their analog signals earlier than the FCC mandate for digital TV. -Chuck Harris Bill Hawkins

Re: [time-nuts] Time Signals on TV signals

2009-05-25 Thread Lux, James P
On 5/25/09 9:52 AM, Bill Hawkins b...@iaxs.net wrote: Aficionados of accurate time, I have two Panasonic DVD TV recorders, a DMR-EZ27 and 28. They were set to automatically sync time to a TV station. This worked fine until a few months ago. Now they are on manual time, but, of course,

Re: [time-nuts] Time Signals on TV signals

2009-05-25 Thread Hal Murray
Why did TV stations stop broadcasting time signals? HDTV requirements? One thing that may be relevant Many years ago, all the TV sources were kept in sync so there wasn't any glitch when they switched feeds. The sync timing was distributed from at atomic clock at network headquarters.

Re: [time-nuts] Time Signals on TV signals

2009-05-25 Thread Richard W. Solomon
The NBS published a booklet on constructing a device that could receive the sync signals and provide a reasonable secondary frequency standard. I still have that book around in some box. I should look for it. IIRC, the signal originated from a Cesium standard and was used to sync the color so MTM

Re: [time-nuts] Time Signals on TV signals

2009-05-25 Thread Tom Van Baak
The NBS published a booklet on constructing a device that could receive the sync signals and provide a reasonable secondary frequency standard. I still have that book around in some box. I should look for it. IIRC, the signal originated from a Cesium standard and was used to sync the color so

Re: [time-nuts] Time Signals on TV signals

2009-05-25 Thread Glenn Little WB4UIV
It appears that the time information is transmitted in line 21 of the analog TV signal. This is the same line that carries Close Captions in an analog signal. It further appears that PBS is the major carrier of these time signals. See :

Re: [time-nuts] Time Signals on TV signals

2009-05-25 Thread Lux, James P
I think you're talking about the VITC, which is on lines 19 and 20 (so you get it on both fields with interlacing). VITC carries hour/minute/second/frame (same as LTC), but I don't know if it's program time (since start of program) or real time). There's a bunch of flavors of vertical interval

[time-nuts] NI WLS/ENET-92xx data acquisition

2009-05-25 Thread Matt Ettus
Has anyone used the National Instruments WLS-92xx or ENET-92xx ethernet- and wireless-based data acquisition systems? Have you been able to use them without using NI software? Is their protocol documented anywhere? It's an interesting product family, with 802.11 or ethernet interfaces, you can

[time-nuts] FreeBSD, NetBSD, or Minix-III?

2009-05-25 Thread Mark Sims
Oh yes it does... the postman just brought me a parcel full of time from China ;-) ... including rubidium time, DOCXO time, and some GPS time. ---Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: It is a perfect example of what I said earlier: people cannot grasp that time do not come in