[time-nuts] Soekris without a GPS receiver.

2014-12-27 Thread David J Taylor
I have a Soekris 4501 running with NanoBSD and have got as far as adding the PPS/DCD/GPIO modifications to the hardware. NTPns itself is working, and the red LED is flashing as expected. I would now like to get NTPns working with that more precise timing which is available, but as I don't

Re: [time-nuts] schematics of frequency counter

2014-12-27 Thread Li Ang
Hi Bob, You are right. My analog circuit skill is so limited, I need to be realistic. I will make some modification to the circuit according to the suggestions from you guys when new board is going to make. I've sent the MV89A board to the factory and got 2 3db attenuators from minicircuit.

Re: [time-nuts] schematics of frequency counter

2014-12-27 Thread Li Ang
Hi Charles, In my circuit, the VCC is 5v. I've noticed my bias and emitter resistor is something need to be changed. I will play with the resistors and see if it improves. Thanks. 2014-12-27 6:42 GMT+08:00 Charles Steinmetz csteinm...@yandex.com: Li Ang wrote: RF pnp transistor is harder

Re: [time-nuts] schematics of frequency counter

2014-12-27 Thread Li Ang
Hi Bob, Here is the data and test scheme. It does not show much difference. 2014-12-26 22:12 GMT+08:00 Bob Camp kb...@n1k.org: Hi Don’t go to crazy on the front end. You can spend a year optimizing something like this. The objective is to see if the front end is a big problem now. It’s

Re: [time-nuts] schematics of frequency counter

2014-12-27 Thread Bob Camp
Hi (In reply to several posts. It’s easier for me this way) Ok, that’s good news !!! (and useful data) Your counter performance degraded a bit when you put in 5 db and not much when you put in 8 db. It’s also maybe *too* good news. I suspect that cross talk between the channels may be

Re: [time-nuts] Soekris without a GPS receiver.

2014-12-27 Thread Bob Camp
Hi You can use a PPS from any “on time” source. The PPS driver is the place to look / thing to use for this. The gotcha is that unless the PPS is indeed pulsing at the right time, it will not improve the performance of the NTP client / server on the box. Without something like a GPS / WWVB /

Re: [time-nuts] Soekris without a GPS receiver.

2014-12-27 Thread Chris Albertson
Look at the bottom of this page refclock.htm http://doc.ntp.org/4.1.0/refclock.htm for a list a clocks that NTP can use. Some of them are GPS receivers. For example type 30 is the Oncore line of receivers and Type 20 is any generic NMEA GPS receiver, with is by far the most common type. There

Re: [time-nuts] Soekris without a GPS receiver.

2014-12-27 Thread David J Taylor
Look at the bottom of this page refclock.htm http://doc.ntp.org/4.1.0/refclock.htm for a list a clocks that NTP can use. Some of them are GPS receivers. For example type 30 is the Oncore line of receivers and Type 20 is any generic NMEA GPS receiver, with is by far the most common type. There

Re: [time-nuts] Soekris without a GPS receiver.

2014-12-27 Thread Paul
On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 4:56 AM, David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: I have a Soekris 4501 running with NanoBSD and have got as far as adding the PPS/DCD/GPIO modifications to the hardware. Did you replace the crystal? I would now like to get NTPns working with that more

Re: [time-nuts] Soekris without a GPS receiver.

2014-12-27 Thread Bob Camp
Hi The last release I see of NTPns is from 2008. The notes are from 2005. That’s a *long* time in Internet years. Is this the release you are trying to use? There are a number of security (and otherwise) issues with NTP that have come up over that time period … PHK is in the middle of a

Re: [time-nuts] Soekris without a GPS receiver.

2014-12-27 Thread Mike Cook
I have had a look at the NTPns package and I don’t think that you will be able do what you want without something naming the seconds. As you have GPSDO’s to give you UTC aligned seconds you may be able to use the voice time service TIM to help you manually set the system clock to the nearest

Re: [time-nuts] Soekris without a GPS receiver.

2014-12-27 Thread Paul
On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Bob Camp kb...@n1k.org wrote: Hi The last release I see of NTPns is from 2008. The notes are from 2005. There are a number of security (and otherwise) issues with NTP that have come up over that time period ... NTPns is essentially unrelated to ntp.org

[time-nuts] If your 5335A is acting goofy or dead...

2014-12-27 Thread Orin Eman
While evaluating my LTE Lite and testing my buffer board, my 5335A started acting goofy - random hangs/crashes etc.. This morning, the fan came on, but no display. To make a long story short, the problem was exactly as described in Service Note 5335A-26B. I found evidence of overheating on the

Re: [time-nuts] Soekris without a GPS receiver.

2014-12-27 Thread David J Taylor
From: Paul Did you replace the crystal? I would now like to get NTPns working with that more precise timing which is available, but as I don't have an Oncore or a DCF77 receiver I am stuck. I suspect you'd need to ask PHK. NTPns supports pps-api and it supposrts ntpv4 as a time source so