Re: [time-nuts] 60 KHz Receiver

2010-10-11 Thread J. Forster
Yes, I can well imagine The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. TANSTAAFL, -J0ohn == That's OK, the Chinese will establish a moon colony using our money and copies of our technology. Of course, it then becomes possible to deliver really large moon rocks to selected positions on the

Re: [time-nuts] Possibly OT - Any interest in a vintage HP/Dymec DY-5842 VLF receiver?

2010-10-11 Thread paul swed
An update. Indeed its working very well now. Easily at -88dbm. Its quite interesting in the fact that if you set the Local oscillator exactly at 160 KC which today is easy to do, you actually have mis-adjusted it. It dawned on me this morning that since its a freq LO add and then subtract scheme.

Re: [time-nuts] GPS backup for the stationary time and frequencyuser

2010-10-11 Thread Jason Rabel
Just curious, but which popular GPS timing receivers work with WAAS? The only one I can think of off the top of my head is that Garmin hockey puck. Jason ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to

Re: [time-nuts] RF Prescaler for 53131A/53132A/53181A counters - update !

2010-10-11 Thread Arnold Tibus
Hi Samuel, I was quite a while away from my home, do you have good news? greetings Arnold Am 08.07.2010 18:12, schrieb Samuel DEMEULEMEESTER: Here is some update on my low-cost extension board for the Agilent/HP counters. Finally received all the components and assembled everything some

Re: [time-nuts] GPS backup for the stationary time and frequencyuser

2010-10-11 Thread SAIDJACK
Hi Jason, one more product line: all of our Jackson Labs Technologies, Inc. FireFly-1A and FireFly-IIA based GPSDO Timing products use WAAS by default. Actually they use WAAS in the Americas, Egnos in Europe and other SBAS signals around the world. We have shown significantly better

[time-nuts] RAPCO 1804 GPS Frequency Standard

2010-10-11 Thread GandalfG8
Hi All Anybody fancy a Rapco 1804 GPS frequency standard for 70 GBP plus postage? Ebay item 320601939698 has eight available as a buy it now and available for worldwide shipping from the UK. These are 5MHz units using an HCD-66-SC ovened oscillator and mains powered in a 1U rack mount

Re: [time-nuts] RAPCO 1804 GPS Frequency Standard

2010-10-11 Thread Alan Melia
It'll be your fault !! :-)) I was wondering about these but didnt know what they were like.I have a space in the rack.it 'ud better be good!! Alan G3NYK - Original Message - From: gandal...@aol.com To: time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 10:13 PM Subject:

[time-nuts] Lucent RFTGm-II-XO In fo Needed

2010-10-11 Thread Richard W. Solomon
I have one of these and the software that I gather will monitor it. What I don't have is what the interface cable looks like and which connector it goes to (too simple to be the one marked Interface !!). Anyone have more info on it. Thanks, Dick, W1KSZ

Re: [time-nuts] RAPCO 1804 GPS Frequency Standard

2010-10-11 Thread GandalfG8
In a message dated 11/10/2010 23:26:06 GMT Daylight Time, alan.me...@btinternet.com writes: It'll be your fault !! :-)) I was wondering about these but didnt know what they were like.I have a space in the rack.it 'ud better be good!! --- Hi Alan Ah...um well,

Re: [time-nuts] Possibly OT - Any interest in a vintage HP/Dymec DY-5842 VLF receiver?

2010-10-11 Thread paul swed
Thanks Bill the scale is fine. Its the meter needle that had paint peeling off. Just pulled the meter and removed the loose paint. Also just scanned the meter face so in the crazy possibility of the decals peeling I can just print a new face. Now to locate a hobby store (that may actually be

Re: [time-nuts] Another Lucent RFTGm-II-XO Question

2010-10-11 Thread paul swed
From what I have seen on those. They take 10 mc and make 15. So just tap the 10 and divide. I use the 10 mc straight out buffer it and distribute it around on 75 ohm cable. You could actually I might guess just bypass the pals and drive into the mmics as outputs. On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 7:12 PM,

Re: [time-nuts] Possibly OT - Any interest in a vintage HP/Dymec DY-5842 VLF receiver?

2010-10-11 Thread Rex
The ability to easily do this kind of graphics stuff (scanning and printing) at an affordable price is one of the few recent innovations that I appreciate over the great design and longevity in older tech equipment. Meld the two = win-win. On 10/11/2010 5:22 PM, paul swed wrote: Thanks