Re: [time-nuts] National Standards labs worldwide - specifically Australia

2014-06-30 Thread Rex Moncur
Hi David Standards Australia performs a somewhat different function in that it does not maintain reference standards or do testing but rather it produces written standards such as for construction of buildings, electrical wiring and food standards. Standards Australia is certainly authoritative

Re: [time-nuts] Dephasing WWVB

2014-06-30 Thread Martin VE3OAT
John Reed wrote : By the way, my 5 section synchronous filter is an LC with op-amps between each stage to bring the gain up for the squaring chip. It has a 2 KHz -6 dB bandwidth at 60 KHz. John, have you thought of using a single 60.0 kHz crystal as a bandpass filter? I can't remember

Re: [time-nuts] Dephasing WWVB

2014-06-30 Thread paul swed
Many of the old receivers use them spectracoms come to mind. They are big units and +- 40 Hz BW and I am totally unaware that they can be found today. That also goes for nice transformers and inductors to build higher Q circuits. I built a opamp chain and it worked well but those crazy amps do

Re: [time-nuts] Dephasing WWVB

2014-06-30 Thread John Reed
First on the Schmidt trigger - The problem is that at the start of each bit that WWVB transmits the squared 60 KHz signal is essentially dead and the trigger must pick a new starting point. This point seems to be random and can apparently end up as a positive or negative, so you end up with

[time-nuts] Bolivian Congress building clock now runs counter-clockwise

2014-06-30 Thread Dave Martindale
The clock face has also been redrawn so the rate of time passage is still positive: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-28013157 I've seen one article that argues that this is more natural in the southern hemisphere, since the shadow on a sundial rotates CCW there. - Dave

Re: [time-nuts] Dephasing WWVB

2014-06-30 Thread paul swed
Yes indeed I have 2 X 599s also and the IF is complicated and if you don't have the magical 60 KHz mod (I don't) you have to hack a solution. That I did. Essentially double the vco and div by 2. While feeding the vco to the mixer. Hey it worked most of the time and on a solid test signal always

Re: [time-nuts] Opinions on OpenNTPD

2014-06-30 Thread Chris Albertson
I think OpenNTPD goes not try to be a stratum 1 server. It is not something you would connect a hardware reference clock to. Look at the man page for the .conf file. On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 11:14 PM, Matthew Martin dr.g...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings to the group! I just obtained a Rev C

Re: [time-nuts] Sad news Ulrich Bangert

2014-06-30 Thread Hartmut Paesler
Dear group, please let me express my thanks for all your condolences. I collected them all and will pass them to Ulrichs relatives. I am quite sure they will be surprised and pleased about the number of people who sent a message. There was the question what will happen with Ulrichs

Re: [time-nuts] Sad news Ulrich Bangert

2014-06-30 Thread paul swed
Hartmut that is indeed a friend that can keep a persons knowledge going and had been entrusted with the details. Good luck to you and thank you. Regards Paul WB8TSL On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Hartmut Paesler timen...@paesler.de wrote: Dear group, please let me express my thanks for

Re: [time-nuts] Opinions on OpenNTPD

2014-06-30 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2014-06-27 00:14, Matthew Martin wrote: Greetings to the group! I just obtained a Rev C Beagleboard Black this week, and the standard distribution does not include ntpd. When I check for available ntpd related packages using the aptitude command, it offers OpenBSD's openntpd as the one

Re: [time-nuts] Opinions on OpenNTPD

2014-06-30 Thread Harlan Stenn
The last time I looked openntp was really an SNTP implementation. If you are running it on a leaf node it might be fine for you. -- Harlan Stenn st...@ntp.org http://networktimefoundation.org - be a member! ___ time-nuts mailing list --

[time-nuts] Fwd from NANOG: Erroneous Leap Second Introduced at 2014-06-30 23:59:59 UTC

2014-06-30 Thread Bill Woodcock
Begin forwarded message: From: Tim Heckman t...@heckman.io Date: June 30, 2014 at 17:33:52 PDT To: na...@nanog.org Subject: Erroneous Leap Second Introduced at 2014-06-30 23:59:59 UTC Hey Everyone, I just was alerted to one of the systems I managed having a time skew greater than