Re: [time-nuts] Completely OT: Removing electrolytics of leakingcapacitors from a pcb

2011-01-20 Thread Ulrich Bangert
Gentlemen, thank you very much for your help. Now I know where to start from (Vinegar). DI water is perhaps within my reach but high temperature vaccuum baking surely not. I will inform you how i procede. Best regards Ulrich Bangert -Ursprungliche Nachricht- Von:

Re: [time-nuts] GC-1000 Clock Cap Choice?

2011-01-20 Thread shalimr9
Also they are almost impossible to solder by hand without setting high internal stress which sometimes results in cracks, not necessarily immediately. Even on professional wave solder equipment, high delayed failure rates are not uncommon, which sometimes results in many units having to be

Re: [time-nuts] GC-1000 Clock Cap Choice?

2011-01-20 Thread Brooke Clarke
Hi Didier: I know CMAX had a real problem with their LF time receiver boards. The high value caps used to resonate the loop-stick antenna permanently changed value so much when heated to soldering temperature they no longer worked. Now they use radial lead caps shrink wrapped to the

Re: [time-nuts] GC-1000 Clock Cap Choice?

2011-01-20 Thread paul swed
Good tidbit on the cmax On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Brooke Clarke bro...@pacific.net wrote: Hi Didier: I know CMAX had a real problem with their LF time receiver boards. The high value caps used to resonate the loop-stick antenna permanently changed value so much when heated to

Re: [time-nuts] GPSCreations SDR (software defined receiver) GPS1A

2011-01-20 Thread Hal Murray
real time processing of *anything* is challenging, even if it's only updating once an hour. I write this because updating once an hour implies you are probably looking at data spanning months, and keeping a program or set of programs reliably running without a hiccup for months is

[time-nuts] Sundry Items...

2011-01-20 Thread Rob Kimberley
I'm going to be listing some items on flea bay soon. Included will be a number of lengths of assorted RF cables, plus a couple of nice rugged foam lined transport cases suitable for 19 equipment. Maybe some other odds ends including manuals. Will provide details to groups as soon as available.

[time-nuts] GPS tests by the DoD

2011-01-20 Thread Robert Darlington
Did you guys see this one yet? http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/20/faa-warns-of-ongoing-gps-issues-in-southeastern-us-due-to-defens/ ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to

Re: [time-nuts] GPS tests by the DoD

2011-01-20 Thread Stanley Reynolds
Looks like a upside down wedding cake a very familiar shape for pilots, ground receivers may not be effected if beyond the horizon of the testing device if it is at sea level. Yes this is just a guess on my part. Stanley - Original Message From: Robert Darlington

Re: [time-nuts] GPS tests by the DoD

2011-01-20 Thread lists
Those tests are quite common in the desert southwest. They show up in the notams. I was jammed by Nellis AFB while driving offroad. We had a small 3 car caravan and I was leading the way. The gps lost every satellite. I stopped and had to explain to the cars following me that I had to do the

Re: [time-nuts] GPS tests by the DoD

2011-01-20 Thread Chris Albertson
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:25 PM, li...@lazygranch.com wrote: Another time I was driving I-5 near Lemoore Navy airstation and got a different type of jamming. The whole gps display rotate back and forth. No idea how that jamming was done. Not just with GPS but in general that is the more

Re: [time-nuts] RS XSRM Rubidium

2011-01-20 Thread paul swed
Well I think bad news. I have a frs c apart. Unfortunately the rb lamp doesn't even light at all. I have been getting RF at about 80.5 Mhz though at the moment I am not. I do not see any residue on the bulb. On one of the websites I did see that the lamp should run outside of the oven. Granted not

[time-nuts] Source for Chrono-Log manuals?

2011-01-20 Thread Dan Veeneman
Hello, Although not directly as accurate as the list usually addresses, I've got two different models of Chrono-Log digital clocks for which I have no technical documentation. Both models, 70,071-011 and 70,101-412, are industrial/professional devices and have a card-edge connector on the