Re: [time-nuts] Why not TAI?

2011-08-10 Thread Bruce Griffiths
Attila Kinali wrote: On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 05:57:45 + Poul-Henning Kampp...@phk.freebsd.dk wrote: Everybody but the time-lords have always been told to stay away from TAI in the strongest possible terms by said time-lords, who again and told the world to use UTC. May i ask what

Re: [time-nuts] Why not TAI?

2011-08-10 Thread cook michael
Le 10/08/2011 07:41, Attila Kinali a écrit : On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 05:57:45 + Poul-Henning Kampp...@phk.freebsd.dk wrote: Everybody but the time-lords have always been told to stay away from TAI in the strongest possible terms by said time-lords, who again and told the world to use UTC.

Re: [time-nuts] Why not TAI? (was: The future of UTC)

2011-08-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 20110810074152.496cb081.att...@kinali.ch, Attila Kinali writes: On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 05:57:45 + Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk wrote: Everybody but the time-lords have always been told to stay away from TAI in the strongest possible terms by said time-lords, who again and

Re: [time-nuts] Why not TAI?

2011-08-10 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 10/08/11 09:09, cook michael wrote: Le 10/08/2011 07:41, Attila Kinali a écrit : On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 05:57:45 + Poul-Henning Kampp...@phk.freebsd.dk wrote: Everybody but the time-lords have always been told to stay away from TAI in the strongest possible terms by said time-lords, who

Re: [time-nuts] Why not TAI?

2011-08-10 Thread Bruce Griffiths
Magnus Danielson wrote: On 10/08/11 09:16, Bruce Griffiths wrote: Attila Kinali wrote: On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 05:57:45 + Poul-Henning Kampp...@phk.freebsd.dk wrote: Everybody but the time-lords have always been told to stay away from TAI in the strongest possible terms by said time-lords,

Re: [time-nuts] Why not TAI?

2011-08-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 4e425909.7050...@xtra.co.nz, Bruce Griffiths writes: These local'' versions of TAI -TAI(NPL), TAI(NIST) etc, are also paper ensemble averages and only a coarse approximation of them is available in real time. This argument is pretty vacuous: UTC is also a paper clock, and the real

Re: [time-nuts] Why not TAI?

2011-08-10 Thread Attila Kinali
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:16:33 +1200 Bruce Griffiths bruce.griffi...@xtra.co.nz wrote: May i ask what the reason was to stay away from TAI? I mean, it is obvious (for me) that for any application that needs a steady, continious and monotone clock that TAI is one of the best alternatives

[time-nuts] Frequency Comparator Ideas needed.

2011-08-10 Thread Dan Kemppainen
Hi All, Been lurking here for a while, some neat traffic going around. I'm thinking this may be a question for this list... I'm wondering if there are any ways to compare two frequencies and tell if one is lower or higher than the other, at a very high rate of speed with a digital output. I

Re: [time-nuts] Frequency Comparator Ideas needed.

2011-08-10 Thread David C. Partridge
OK, you've described what you think of as the solution to your problem, but what actually is your problem? In other words what is your objective. Are we looking at something like a phased array radar here? If so there is probably quite a bit of stuff out there that isn't classifed by now as

[time-nuts] Frequency Comparator Ideas need

2011-08-10 Thread ed breya
There are phase detectors available that can easily run at 50 MHz. The output signal contains the information you want, but you have to filter it and decode it according to the response time needed. Ed ___ time-nuts mailing list --

Re: [time-nuts] Why not TAI?

2011-08-10 Thread cook michael
Le 10/08/2011 12:55, Attila Kinali a écrit : If TAI is a paper clock, what else should be used if a strictly monotone time scale is needed? Do you have any specific application in mind? If you need an SI seconds rated scale, then you need something based on TAI. GPS time has a TAI second rate

Re: [time-nuts] Frequency Comparator Ideas needed.

2011-08-10 Thread Bob Camp
Hi Without knowing what you are doing, and the source of the unknown signal, this is difficult to address. Here it goes anyway: If the unknown is a free running source, then it has both a frequency (or phase) modulation and a static phase offset. In other words, it can be on the same frequency

Re: [time-nuts] Thunderbolt hardware revisions

2011-08-10 Thread Bob Camp
Hi The real question is what's the date code on the unit? If the rev E part is old enough to have the good thermometer chip in it - that's the one to get. Bob -Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of David Garnier Sent:

Re: [time-nuts] Why not TAI?

2011-08-10 Thread Bob Camp
Hi If you have a time source to work with, generating a different time scale is just a math problem. In most cases it's not a very complex one (subtract 19 seconds and move on). If you don't have a time source, then generating any time scale will be a challenge. Given the low cost of computing

Re: [time-nuts] Why not TAI?

2011-08-10 Thread Brooke Clarke
Hi: A friend has an observatory and needs very precise time. It turns out that the best way is to command the system to point to some star then manually move the scope to put the star on the cross hairs. Doing this a half dozen times and then fitting the data results in the system knowing

Re: [time-nuts] Why not TAI? (was: The future of UTC)

2011-08-10 Thread Michael Sokolov
Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk wrote: That is a very good question, the answers you get if you try to press this point starts with handwaving and ends with look, just don't, OK ? And what happens if you ignore their edicts and do it anyway? It's called Civil Disobedience. Using TAI is

Re: [time-nuts] Why not TAI?

2011-08-10 Thread Brooke Clarke
Hi: There's been talk of a 19 second offset, but it may be 34 seconds, see: http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eoppc/bul/bulc/UTC-TAI.history Have Fun, Brooke Clarke http://www.PRC68.com http://www.End2PartyGovernment.com/ ___ time-nuts mailing list --

Re: [time-nuts] Why not TAI? (was: The future of UTC)

2011-08-10 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 10/08/11 20:24, Michael Sokolov wrote: Poul-Henning Kampp...@phk.freebsd.dk wrote: That is a very good question, the answers you get if you try to press this point starts with handwaving and ends with look, just don't, OK ? And what happens if you ignore their edicts and do it anyway?

Re: [time-nuts] Frequency Comparator Ideas needed.

2011-08-10 Thread Chris Albertson
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Dan Kemppainen d...@irtelemetrics.comwrote: Basically I have a relatively high frequency signal, say around 50Mhz +/- 150Khz that I would like to compare to a reference frequency (50Mhz) on a cycle by cycle basis. The two signals are not locked together, and

Re: [time-nuts] Why not TAI? (was: The future of UTC)

2011-08-10 Thread Mike S
At 02:42 PM 8/10/2011, Magnus Danielson wrote... Much of todays proliferation of UTC or whatever it is being called, is due to the need of a TAI-like scale in a number of systems due to technical reasons. The time-lords could have avoided that from the start by acknowledging that use of TAI

Re: [time-nuts] Why not TAI?

2011-08-10 Thread Mike S
At 02:40 PM 8/10/2011, Brooke Clarke wrote... There's been talk of a 19 second offset, but it may be 34 seconds, see: http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eoppc/bul/bulc/UTC-TAI.history The mention of 19 seconds was in relation to GPS time, which is probably the most widely used source, from which others

Re: [time-nuts] Why not TAI? (was: The future of UTC)

2011-08-10 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 10/08/11 21:03, Mike S wrote: At 02:42 PM 8/10/2011, Magnus Danielson wrote... Much of todays proliferation of UTC or whatever it is being called, is due to the need of a TAI-like scale in a number of systems due to technical reasons. The time-lords could have avoided that from the start by

[time-nuts] Mystery Maser Project

2011-08-10 Thread cdelect
Hi Everyone, I'm working on a vintage passive Hydrogen maser that is undocumented and missing a bunch of the electronics. I am working on getting it up far enough to see if I can get Maser action and if so will then work on the rest of the electronics. Tom Van Baak is hosting the blog on his

Re: [time-nuts] Thunderbolt hardware revisions

2011-08-10 Thread Richard W. Solomon
OK, now, how old is old enough ?? Where is the units date code located ? Hopefully, the seller knows (or even cares) where to find it. 73, Dick, W1KSZ -Original Message- From: Bob Camp li...@rtty.us Sent: Aug 10, 2011 9:59 AM To: 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement'

Re: [time-nuts] Thunderbolt hardware revisions

2011-08-10 Thread Ziggy
Well, if it's any help, on my rev E unit with the 'coarse' temperature chip, there is a sticker on the top (near the power connector) with a bar code, a date (3/14/05) and the Rev E designation. There's also a series of numbers that could be a serial number and some other kind of rev designator

Re: [time-nuts] Seller Joon Kyong on eBay now doing business under multiple names...

2011-08-10 Thread jim s
I am sorry you had problems with Joon. I have dealt with him under both id's and have always been lucky to get goods for a price where the shipping costs he charges is not an issue. I don't like that he packs the stuff, because I live a couple of miles from him and always pick stuff up, and