Re: [time-nuts] Recording mains frequency/phase [WAS: No GPSsatellites]

2015-03-01 Thread Graham
Dave, That's cool. I am the dot just above the US / Canada border and just below the Ontario/Quebec border in Eastern Ontario. There are many (many) documents that can found using Google on the subject of power grids and frequency and monitoring. I have only been able to read through only a

Re: [time-nuts] homebrew counter new board test result

2015-03-01 Thread Magnus Danielson
Tom, On 02/28/2015 06:10 PM, Tom Van Baak wrote: A good paper to read about the trouble when DUT is close (or equal to REF) is: http://literature.cdn.keysight.com/litweb/pdf/5990-9189EN.pdf Isolating Frequency Measurement Error and Sourcing Frequency Error near the Reference Frequency

Re: [time-nuts] Recording mains frequency

2015-03-01 Thread Bill Hawkins
Just a thought about interpreting data: The mains frequency changes as the loads on the system change. Dispatchers bring more generators on line or drop them. Some of this is predictable, depending on business hours, weekends, holidays and the seasons. Just as one can take the crystal aging out

Re: [time-nuts] Recording mains frequency/phase [WAS: No GPSsatellites]

2015-03-01 Thread Ben Hall
On 2/27/2015 1:27 PM, Tom Van Baak wrote: There are many wonderful web sites that deal with power line frequency; some with live plots. Just google for words like: mains frequency detect accuracy stability measurement Been doing just that - fascinating! I'm getting closer to doing some

Re: [time-nuts] Measuring frequency rather than tuning crystal

2015-03-01 Thread Dave Martindale
Here is a quote from the TF930/TF960 Service Guide, in the section on calibrating the internal TCXO: Set the Measurement Time to 1s and repeat the process. The adjustment per step is now a decade smaller and multiple presses may be needed. The measurement restarts after each set of key presses.

[time-nuts] Monsanto IC

2015-03-01 Thread Hendrik Dietrich
Looks like a rebadged Schlumberger Unit to me. (Case style wise) ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.

Re: [time-nuts] simple explanation of noise spectra with mixing

2015-03-01 Thread Joseph Gwinn
time-nuts Digest, Vol 128, Issue 1, Message: 8 Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 17:46:18 -0800 From: Jim Lux jim...@earthlink.net To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Subject: [time-nuts] simple explanation of noise spectra with mixing, etc.

[time-nuts] Monsanto IC

2015-03-01 Thread jim s
Hi, I have friend with a question about an IC badged with Monsanto. I googled a bit and found that there is a big line of older maybe 60's era counter / timers which were made and badged Monsanto. I am asking here if anyone has some of these or have a knowledge of whether they may have

Re: [time-nuts] Recording mains frequency/phase [WAS: No GPSsatellites]

2015-03-01 Thread Daniel Mendes
On 28/02/2015 18:09, Tom Van Baak wrote: Hi Daniel, That will be an interesting experiment. I'm happy you are doing it. You may want to run all five boards within the same house first -- to establish your noise floor and to check your post-processing (non-aligned log files, glitches, power

Re: [time-nuts] Recording mains frequency

2015-03-01 Thread Daniel Mendes
On 28/02/2015 16:58, Charles Steinmetz wrote: Daniel wrote: I designed a board with an OCXO, pic microcontroller, power supply, mains interface with optocoupler, and SD card for data collection..* * * The boards also have a small Li-Ion battery and battery charger for short power

Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 127, Issue 33

2015-03-01 Thread Scott McGrath
The downconverter was used for long runs of cable typical use case was a high rise with data center in basement As I recall it converted the signal to a high level baseband and amplified that whic was good for a thousand feet or so of cable Content by Scott Typos by Siri On Feb 27, 2015,