Re: [time-nuts] Low-long-term-drift clock for board levelintegration?

2012-02-21 Thread Bill Woodcock
certainly it has produced some useful results. The rate at which the number of links increases as a function of the number of nodes in a full mesh is a powerful incentive to pursue larger numbers of nodes. -Bill -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2

Re: [time-nuts] Low-long-term-drift clock for board levelintegration?

2012-02-21 Thread Bill Woodcock
, that's one of the things that we do. You don't need a trigger, you can just transmit the beacon. That's how we measure jitter and out-of-order delivery, and how we detect parallel paths. -Bill -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17

Re: [time-nuts] Low-long-term-drift clock for board levelintegration?

2012-02-21 Thread Bill Woodcock
. Traceroute already exists. In fact, plenty of one-way delay measurements already exist. We're just doing a larger, better one. Yes, that takes time and money. Math is hard, let's go shopping isn't a particularly interesting argument. -Bill -BEGIN PGP

Re: [time-nuts] Low-long-term-drift clock for board level integration?

2012-02-20 Thread Bill Woodcock
) rather than assuming a more predictable network with controlled latencies. -Bill -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJPQtNzAAoJEG+kcEsoi3+HpRIQAM4TK1s+gbXHORxSiXad6If3

Re: [time-nuts] Low-long-term-drift clock for board level integration?

2012-02-20 Thread Bill Woodcock
range, but less so at another order of magnitude less precision. -Bill -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJPQvtsAAoJEG+kcEsoi3+HafsQAJQJAkux30PcrGkzcw2oZQNx 7xKXvGYA

[time-nuts] Low-long-term-drift clock for board level integration?

2012-02-19 Thread Bill Woodcock
. It needs to be integrated onto our board, but space isn't too constrained either. I'm also happy to pay for a few consulting hours if people want to give me detailed advice on a professional basis. Thanks, -Bill -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin

Re: [time-nuts] Low-long-term-drift clock for board level integration?

2012-02-19 Thread Bill Hawkins
? Bill Hawkins, who has ideas but is not a professional -Original Message- From: Bill Woodcock Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 5:57 PM Hi. This is my first posting to this list, and I'm not a timekeeping engineer, so my apologies in advance for my ignorance in this area. I'm building

Re: [time-nuts] Low-long-term-drift clock for board level integration?

2012-02-19 Thread Bill Woodcock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Feb 19, 2012, at 5:07 PM, Bill Hawkins wrote: If you are going to correct it with NTP, a simple crystal oscillator will do. Yeah, my assumption was that something like a DOCXO or a VCTCXO would be about the best I'd get within budget

Re: [time-nuts] Low-long-term-drift clock for board level integration?

2012-02-19 Thread Bill Woodcock
not worth spending any time thinking about. If wishes were horses, etc. Thank you very much for the advice. -Bill -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJPQdVKAAoJEG+kcEsoi3

Re: [time-nuts] Low-long-term-drift clock for board level integration?

2012-02-19 Thread Bill Woodcock
think he indicated he was using the common hobby type units. I seriously don't think they measure up to your unit. No, we're doing board-level integration. -Bill -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http

Re: [time-nuts] Low-long-term-drift clock for board level integration?

2012-02-19 Thread Bill Woodcock
on my phone upon landing in some countries. But it's been a while since I've gotten a weird one in Europe or the more developed parts of Asia. Africa and South and Central Asia are pretty much all over the map, though. -Bill -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [time-nuts] Fwd: FE-5680A Contact FEI

2012-02-17 Thread Bill Riches
they... 73, Bill Riches, WA2DVU Cape May, NJ -Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lux Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 9:43 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Fwd: FE-5680A Contact

Re: [time-nuts] FE-5680A Contact FEI

2012-02-15 Thread Bill Riches
Just curious, Has anyone on this list actually contacted FEI and enquired about a schematic or other info about our 5680 units? They are still being sold by them. 73, Bill Riches, WA2DVU Cape May, NJ ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts

Re: [time-nuts] GPS fade out, Sat/Sun

2012-02-13 Thread Bill Hawkins
Nothing in Minnesota. Probably just the local terrorist cell tuning up the jammers for the big event on Valentine's day. Or a Light Squared test . . . Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From: paul swed Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 7:52 AM None on the east coast Said Jackson saidj

[time-nuts] science projects

2012-02-09 Thread Bill Fuqua
to do some experiments with these myself. Maybe they have improved. Alignment of the mirror is not easy either. 73 Bill wa4lav ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts

Re: [time-nuts] science projects

2012-02-09 Thread Bill Hawkins
processing, as hearing or speech. Why? What else does that? There are many oscillators in the brain. At least one of them is good enough that I can sometimes cancel my alarm just before it goes off. Bill Hawkins ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts

[time-nuts] PTS synthesizers

2012-02-08 Thread Bill Fuqua
I am new to the list and would like to know if anyone has a list of the suffixes (options) for PTS synthesizers. There seem to be a number of them that are not in their catalog. 73 Bill wa4lav ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com

[time-nuts] Norman Ramsey

2012-02-08 Thread Fuqua, Bill L
short discussion with him at the time. His graduate student was a ham but Dr. Ramsey never was. Dr. McAdam did a great deal of research in atomic physics at UofK before he retired a couple of years ago. 73 Bill wa4lav ___ time-nuts mailing list

Re: [time-nuts] ANFSCD - Synchronizing time in home video recorders

2012-02-05 Thread Bill Hawkins
.) This would have the added benefit of fixing the scheduling bugs and make finalizing automatic for a full disk, rather than the five clicks it takes now. One day, the lack of sync every week will get to me, and I'll start this project, but I don't think I'll live to finish it. Bill Hawkins

Re: [time-nuts] New Rubidium Frequency Standard Group

2012-02-02 Thread Bill Hawkins
, starting with Feb 2011 warnings about their frequency errors. Then I used Select All and Delete to remove 9% of the folder. How about a new list for eBay finds that are a waste of money, like the Lucent XO and Rb 15 MHz boxes? Maybe time-rats or time-junk Bill Hawkins Tobacco, coffee, alcohol

[time-nuts] ANFSCD - Synchronizing time in home video recorders

2012-02-01 Thread Bill Hawkins
digital broadcasting replaced analog. Does anyone know how to make the DVR act as if it is seeing a code with the correct time of day? Failing that, can the crystal that determines time for the DVR be adjusted? Surely, some time-nut has solved this problem . . . Bill Hawkins Time is a great teacher

Re: [time-nuts] HP5334B with 10544 OCXO

2012-01-30 Thread Bill Riches
10544 is cool - earlier version than the 10811. Just make sure that the unit is getting warm - some of them have had oven controller problems - but haven't we all??!! Regards, Bill Riches WA2DVU -. Hello. I recently bough an HP-5334B counter with option 010 from the big E. A Google

[time-nuts] FTL neutrinos or timing error - where did the energy come from

2012-01-28 Thread Bill Hawkins
there were no new physics to be discovered, time appears to be out of joint. Bill Hawkins As Yogi Berra once said, It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https

Re: [time-nuts] US Army Frequency Standard

2012-01-24 Thread Bill Hawkins
. Bill Hawkins ___ 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] hijacking threads

2012-01-23 Thread Bill Hawkins
Well, I just got out of the shower and had this thought: There are people who hijack a thread *without* changing the Subject. Tension is caused by noble goals meeting human imperfection. So it goes. Oh, look at the time! Gotta run . . . Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From: Attila

Re: [time-nuts] finding time astronomically.

2012-01-23 Thread Bill Hawkins
, a passage grave is not the same as a shadow cast by a fine wire on a microscope. It might take a few years to locate it properly. Are there any timenuts that want to be buried in a passage grave? Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From: Chris Albertson Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 8:40 PM

Re: [time-nuts] HP 3575A Gain-Phase meter

2012-01-20 Thread Bill Hawkins
Mark, Google gives this link as top of the list, and it does explain it. http://www.amplifier.cd/Test_Equipment/Hewlett_Packard/HP_meter/HP3575A.htm Very useful for Bode plots, but it doesn't do frequency stability. Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From: Mark C. Stephens Sent: Friday

[time-nuts] ISA bus computers for auction GPIB hackers

2012-01-19 Thread Bill Hawkins
are available for pickup at 55438 near Minneapolis, Minnesota. For shipping I will use a service to pack and ship, which will be reasonable but not cheap. I need to know by Jan 24, before they join the rest of the stuff in a storage locker on a junk truck. Bill Hawkins

Re: [time-nuts] Intro Q: Racal-Dana 1991 or 1992 Counter ?

2012-01-19 Thread Bill Hawkins
to move to assisted living. Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From: cfo Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 2:58 PM Hello Nuts I'm a Danish radio ham , and have recently picked up electronics again. I'm programming AVR ARM controllers , and doing some basic electronics stuff. I am rusty

Re: [time-nuts] Toys for time-nuts in old-folks home

2012-01-19 Thread Bill Hawkins
Just so, Chris. Another possibility is loss of interest in time, which has become the enemy. I've become fascinated with the workings of the brain, and how that has affected aspects of civilization. Maybe I can write a book, before I can't. Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From: Chris

Re: [time-nuts] FE-5680A adjustment screw?

2012-01-18 Thread Bill Riches
it does nothing - not connected - you might look at the 5680 archives - this and a bunch of other info is listed ad nauseum about the 5680. 73, Bill, WA2DVU Cape May, NJ -Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Robert Benward

Re: [time-nuts] FE-5680A adjustment screw?

2012-01-18 Thread Bill Riches
I was looking at them also but thought if I tried to use them the soot would have been let out of something!! 73, Bill WA2DVU -Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R Sent: Wednesday, January 18

[time-nuts] leap second end of June 2012

2012-01-16 Thread Bill Dailey
http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?329468-This-year-a-day-and-a-second-longer -- Doc Bill Dailey KXØO ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow

[time-nuts] leap second end of June 2012

2012-01-16 Thread Bill Dailey
Earth Orientation Center of IERS Observatoire de Paris, France http://data.iers.org/products/16/14889/orig/bulletinc-043.txt -- Doc Bill Dailey KXØO ___ time-nuts mailing list

[time-nuts] Storage locker cleanout

2012-01-13 Thread Bill Hawkins
...@iaxs.net, or call 952 835-6840. Bill Hawkins ___ 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] Spoofing..

2012-01-11 Thread Bill Hawkins
If you follow the link to get an offline PDF, you get the whole magazine in 32 MB. The result is interesting, but some of us would be better off downloading at night. This is the wrong list to start a discussion of your blinding Internet connection speed. Bill Hawkins -Original Message

Re: [time-nuts] Spoofing..

2012-01-11 Thread Bill Hawkins
Hello, WHAT??? Rob, that was a simple warning to people who might not be expecting to tie up their machine while 32 megabytes downloaded. The magazine was very interesting. Thanks for posting the link. Bill Hawkins P.S. I did not mean you, Rob, when I said your speed. I was trying to head off

Re: [time-nuts] FE-5680A Mechanical Question

2012-01-11 Thread Bill Riches
they are screws - real small torx head Bill Riches Cape May, NJ Should I ever have time to pursue the Rb unit, what happens when I 'drill out' all the rivets that mount the unit to the PCB that it arrived on? Any reason to keep it on the PCB? Does the bottom cover come off? Will I need

Re: [time-nuts] Question re neutrinos and GPS

2012-01-08 Thread Bill Hawkins
beyond the capability of quartz at the required error of one microsecond during the many hours that it will take to transport Q between CERN and LNGS. Plenty of time for cracks to propagate or chips fall off. Why do you say we can ignore such effects? Thanks for any enlightenment. Bill Hawkins

Re: [time-nuts] Power supply for 'Bay FE-5680A?

2012-01-06 Thread Bill Riches
in our lab. For a hundred bucks you have a RB standard. Spend the bucks!! 73, Bill, WA2DVU Cape May, NJ ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow

Re: [time-nuts] FE 5680a 3pay 36.89 includes shipping. Finally ordered one

2012-01-04 Thread Bill Riches
Noticed that one of my 5680 units was a bit unstable at times. Reglued the crystal back on to the board and it it happy! 73, Bill, WA2DVU Cape May, NJ ons there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https

Re: [time-nuts] FE-5680A performance

2012-01-04 Thread Bill Riches
Hi Said, Excellent plots - what program/ how are you producing the plots? 73, Bill, WA2DVU Cape May, NJ -Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of saidj...@aol.com Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 4:18 PM To: time-nuts@febo.com

Re: [time-nuts] FE-5680A performance

2012-01-04 Thread Bill Riches
Ah ha!! I was hoping that it was a simple excel procedure!! Nice piece of gear. Regards Bill -Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Said Jackson Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 7:45 PM To: Discussion of precise time

Re: [time-nuts] FE 5680a Schematic etc.

2011-12-29 Thread Bill riches
look on this list about a week ago. i wrote up how I did it. very easy. my unit is holding at a few parts to the -11. sorry i do not have file on ipad. bill wa2dvu Sent from my iPad On Dec 29, 2011, at 6:42 AM, Azelio Boriani azelio.bori...@screen.it wrote: Someone here has pointed out

Re: [time-nuts] Adding adjustment pot to 5680

2011-12-22 Thread Bill Riches
on this unit that have been on this list. 73, Bill Riches, Wa2dvu Cape May, NJ -Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of saidj...@aol.com Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 1:39 PM To: time-nuts@febo.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts

Re: [time-nuts] Solstice Puzzle

2011-12-17 Thread Bill Hawkins
with 1 PPS and you can clock the simultaneous change of the digits. Although, there is a certain charm to watching the change propagate at some low serial message baud rate. Head or tail deletion is a pretty good idea, too. Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From: Jim Lux Sent: Saturday

[time-nuts] Labview and searching archive

2011-12-15 Thread Bill Dailey
if there is a secret handshake. Also, periodically I would liek to search the archives but havent yet figured out how to do it... can anyone help with that? -- Doc Bill Dailey KXØO ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go

Re: [time-nuts] The GPS navigation is the weakest point,

2011-12-15 Thread Bill Hawkins
crave conflict. Best wishes to all as the solemnity of the solstice approaches. The solstice, at least, is about real planetary time. Have at it, while you can. Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From: J. Forster Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 3:10 PM To: time-nuts@febo.com; vintage

Re: [time-nuts] gravity controlled pendulumn clock?

2011-12-12 Thread Bill Beam
as r^+1 for rR and as r^-2 for rR. (This is a freshman undergraduate Physics problem.) Bill Cheers, Magnus ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time- nuts

Re: [time-nuts] gravity controlled pendulumn clock?

2011-12-12 Thread Bill Hawkins
? Sliding the one ton mass is left as an exercise for the reader, as is installing it in the basement. Yours in search of more perfect knowledge outside my field, Bill Hawkins ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https

Re: [time-nuts] looking for data on time code display

2011-12-11 Thread Bill Hawkins
didn't find them intimidating at all. The gift shop would sell me a jacket with NSA logos, but I didn't know where I would wear it. There is a certain cachet to having a box that was used by top secret agents to decode radio intercepts. Bill Hawkins P.S. I'd recommend doing some signal tracing from

Re: [time-nuts] Line Voltage frequency Interface morphed to batteries

2011-11-29 Thread Bill Hawkins
I should have been more direct. What does a charged flash capacitor have to do with safety concerns for low voltage batteries touching the tongue? You can have the last word. It's time I moved on. Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From: J. Forster Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 10:28

Re: [time-nuts] Line Voltage frequency Interface morphed to batteries

2011-11-28 Thread Bill Hawkins
their name to a bill that compromised children's safety, in any way real or imagined. Lawyers are responsible for the death of common sense in the USA. Trial lawyers, that is. Now, a 9 volt battery has a few centimeters between terminals, if that. It is commonly accepted that electrocution needs

Re: [time-nuts] Line Voltage frequency Interface morphed to batteries

2011-11-28 Thread Bill Hawkins
Hey, John, got any idea of the DC to DC converter that charged that capacitor? What voltage did it put out? Or the time it took to charge it? Guarantee that you won't light a flash tube with 1.5 VDC. Move on. Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From: J. Forster Sent: Monday, November 28

[time-nuts] Using Thyme for Stuffed Mushrooms

2011-11-24 Thread Bill Hawkins
the product with a suitable wine. This is really a great use of your thyme. Oh, wait - this isn't the thyme-nuts list. Never mind. Bill Hawkins The above was intended to entertain. Please don't be offended. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts

[time-nuts] The GPS velocity of light versus neutrinos

2011-11-21 Thread Bill Hawkins
for the answer. Bill Hawkins b...@iaxs.net (already on all the spam lists) ___ 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] Power grid experiment may drive Americas clocks cuckoo ?

2011-11-16 Thread Bill Hawkins
, and they are designed to fail to protect themselves. Last I knew, the test had been cancelled. Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From: Craig S McCartney Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 8:49 PM Yet another challenge to proper time-keeping. I think that I will re-calibrate the sundial in my yard

Re: [time-nuts] HP5370B - Err 02, but way off topic

2011-10-26 Thread Bill Hawkins
human empathy. Those who have it can deal with the fact that no two people are alike. Those who don't would rule the rest of us without understanding the differences. That's evolution in action. Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From: Bob Smither Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 11:32 PM Bob

Re: [time-nuts] SLIP vs Ethernet for NTP

2011-10-23 Thread Bill Hawkins
Fascinating thread. Poul-Henning Kamp mentions contact prell. Google can't find it. Even quoted, I get shampoo and people with that name. I understand well contact bounce and contact dwell, but what is the meaning of prell? Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sent

Re: [time-nuts] Sneaky Errors

2011-10-19 Thread Bill Hawkins
set up a time interval counter to show the phase between the two outputs. The Racal-Dana 1992 does that at 10 MHz. Out of curiosity, what would be the consequences of a steadily increasing phase error? Would it offend your sense of perfection or would it have real consequences? Bill Hawkins

Re: [time-nuts] Sneaky Errors

2011-10-19 Thread Bill Hawkins
problem. Perfection demands many oscillators with a voting system. Long winter nights could be spent solving these problems. I'm too old for that stuff. (I also post the most recent ideas first, so as not to reread old ideas.) Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From: David VanHorn Sent

[time-nuts] NTP guru

2011-10-17 Thread Bill Dailey
for ntpd and reads 0s offset). I presume I have to get a soekris unit, descipline it and use freebsd and ntpns. Input? -- Doc Bill Dailey KXØO

[time-nuts] FatPPS

2011-10-17 Thread Bill Dailey
Anyone know where to get one? -- Doc Bill Dailey KXØO

[time-nuts] NTP guru

2011-10-17 Thread Bill Dailey
0.01034 0.000148 4 -- Doc Bill Dailey KXØO

Re: [time-nuts] NTP guru

2011-10-17 Thread Bill Dailey
what i mean is... why would it jump from 0 ns to 1000 ns and back? On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Bill Dailey docdai...@gmail.com wrote: thanks, what am i seeing here? 55852 3520.152 -0.01000 -29.727 0.01083 0.000168 4 55852 3536.152 0.0 -29.727 0.01068 0.000158 4

Re: [time-nuts] Lucent RFTG-m-XO GPSDO

2011-10-09 Thread Bill Hawkins
to have 24 volt receivers with software like GPSCon that can do SNTP. RS422 is no problem. Please let me know if you find drawings and software. Copies are worth more than postage to me. Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From: k4...@aol.com Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2011 1:41 PM I will look

Re: [time-nuts] Fast than light neutrino

2011-09-23 Thread Bill Dailey
Quoted There are three quantities involved here, and most of the coverage and quite a lot of physicists overlook that: 1. Speed of neutrinos 2. Speed of photons 3. Constant 'c' From relativity. Until now the assumption have been that 2 = 3, but this is only

[time-nuts] Fast than light neutrino

2011-09-23 Thread Bill Dailey
The article is actually pretty fascinating regarding how it was all done. Light can't go through rock (very far), neither can most other particles (some farther than others). Neutrinos can pass through earth and the sun unimpeded. It is neat apparently they set up a fiber optic link to test

Re: [time-nuts] temperature control

2011-09-17 Thread Bill Harris
Bert: Something to be said about no moving parts.Bill-w7kxb From: ewkeh...@aol.com Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 21:22:30 -0400 To: time-nuts@febo.com Subject: [time-nuts] temperature control Recent comments on dewier flasks bring me back to test I conducted last year using a nice flask that

Re: [time-nuts] AF General says White House pressured him tochangeLightSquared testimony

2011-09-15 Thread Bill Hawkins
What is a story about a pot calling a kettle black doing on this list? ___ 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] Buzzing 5061B

2011-09-03 Thread Bill Hawkins
and see if the buzzing stops. This is what I'd do, and I've never lost a 5061B yet - but then, I've never owned one. Did have a 5065 and some other Caesium standard, both with high initial heater currents. Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From: Erno Peres Sent: Saturday, September 03

Re: [time-nuts] UTC and the speed of light?

2011-08-30 Thread Bill Hawkins
periodically meet under the clock tower to set their watches, and reckon the distances to their homes by the time offset. Bill Hawkins, who recently read Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go

Re: [time-nuts] LightSquared squabble raises questions about political games

2011-08-16 Thread Bill Hawkins
Guys, Yes, the games are political. No, politics is not the subject of this list. I've stopped being curious about things I can't fix. Bill Hawkins ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi

Re: [time-nuts] Weird TEC data

2011-08-04 Thread Bill Hawkins
when the steep drops in difference occur? Is anyone else running a similar experiment? Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 1:13 AM The jumps in the difference looks a lot like transformer phase-lag in the grid, but the real test

[time-nuts] Broadband synthesizer

2011-07-13 Thread Bill Dailey
Thanks for the input. I think i am asking for too much in one package (looking toward future projects). How about 1.8Mhz to 15Mhz To meet the needs of the primary project (fmt). I would prefer to not have to also use a counter. Thanks, Doc KX0O Sent from my iPad

[time-nuts] Broadband synthesizer

2011-07-12 Thread Bill Dailey
Looking for recommendations for a broadband synthesizer with external reference connection, at least 1mhz to 1ghz with micro to millihertz resolution. Oh yeah under $1000 or so. I found a real nice one from holzworth but it is about $5k which is a bit rich for me. I have seen. Various hp

[time-nuts] Broadband synthesizer

2011-07-12 Thread Bill Dailey
Ok, I have a dds receiver locked to a gpsdo, the radio can only be tuned in 1 hz increments but should be dead on. I can feed the passband into speclab via VAC and measure a carrier OTA. No problem there...can get decent resolution but there is some uncertainty with regard to the dds

Re: [time-nuts] MIT RADIATION LABORATORY SERIES 1940-1945 (28 VOLS) on eBay

2011-07-12 Thread Bill Hawkins
, only that the passage of time alters men's passions. Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From: Mike Feher Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 9:21 PM A guy is offering a complete set item # 320727122967 on eBay. I already have one complete set and lots of duplicates, otherwise I would jump

Re: [time-nuts] More 60 Hz data/graphs

2011-07-03 Thread Bill Hawkins
change today) to increase power on demand - in fuel and stress on the equipment. With any luck, my next message will be about the frequency control problem. Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From: Hal Murray Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2011 11:15 PM I've moved the 60 Hz stuff from http

Re: [time-nuts] No more 60Hz! TEC Elimination - control

2011-07-03 Thread Bill Hawkins
of change limit (can't be, 3000 people would have thought of that.) We welcome your comments with Enthusiasm. The references below are important. Bill Hawkins -Original Message- On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Bob Kupiec bobkup...@comcast.net wrote: AP: Power grid change may disrupt clocks

[time-nuts] Atomic Clock on a chip, only $1500

2011-06-30 Thread Bill Dailey
How does this compare to Fury in terms of precision? They look very similar to me. The cesium flavor seems to be geared more toward the mobility. I am considering a Fury but would consider the csac if I could get a price close to $1500 complete with enclosure. Any ideas as to what the

Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 83, Issue 113

2011-06-29 Thread Bill Dailey
I would like a pci card that could be hooked up to an external reference for sound card stability Sent from my iPhone On Jun 29, 2011, at 3:02 PM, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote: Send time-nuts mailing list submissions to time-nuts@febo.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World

[time-nuts] Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement

2011-06-29 Thread Bill Dailey
The FireWire thing makes sense but is there some way to make the computer itself a slave to an external source also? ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and

Re: [time-nuts] No more 60Hz, How do I discipline 120VAC 60Hz from a UPS

2011-06-26 Thread Bill Hawkins
the Liebert is available. Bill Hawkins ___ 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] 60 Hz measurement party- big sync motors

2011-06-26 Thread Bill Hawkins
the rotating field and the speed of the rotor. Synchronous motors don't have slip, just phase angle. Zero angle looks like a resistive load, yes? The compressors don't have to run in sync. Best, Bill Hawkins (who heaves a nostalgic sigh just thinking about those fine old engines of progress) -Original

Re: [time-nuts] Replacing electrolytics - any disadvantages of high temp ones?

2011-06-21 Thread Bill Hawkins
to be a way to work precision time into this thread, but I can't think of one. Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 2:40 PM In message 4e008a73.50...@erols.com, Chuck Harris writes: and yet, I find that some electrolytic capacitors

Re: [time-nuts] please un subscribe Pete to Time Nuts

2011-06-02 Thread Bill Hawkins
Which Pete? If it's you, use the link that follows To unsubscribe, go to at the bottom of this page. Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Pete Rawson Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 1:11 PM To: time-nuts

Re: [time-nuts] What are these towers?

2011-05-21 Thread Bill Hawkins
to share, but I'm considering moving on to a new hobby. Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From: Robert Darlington Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 1:31 AM Guys, I gotta ask, what does this have to do with time keeping? Am I missing something? -Bob

Re: [time-nuts] Results parts selection + commercial assembly poll?

2011-05-16 Thread Bill Hawkins
the sender's address and made it clear that their mailer's Reply key was the wrong thing to use, we might not be having this discussion. You can reply to me at b...@iaxs.net. I'm already on all of the spam lists, and Red Condor filters all of the spam. Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From: Bob

Re: [time-nuts] Atomic clock on a chip

2011-05-12 Thread Bill Hawkins
That's a good link. Here's another, to a video presentation that gets into the details of the Symmetricom CSAC. http://www.brainshark.com/Steve_FatSymmetricom/vu?pi=691826191dm=5pause=1; appKey=77 Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From: James Fournier Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 9:25

Re: [time-nuts] 60hz disciplined watch (really?)

2011-04-20 Thread Bill Hawkins
processor. Bill Hawkins ___ 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] Thunderbolt serial port problem UPDATE

2011-04-14 Thread bill
for the suggestion everybody. Bill K7NOM ___ 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] Thunderbolt serial port problem LAST UPDATE

2011-04-14 Thread bill
On 4/14/2011 8:38 AM, bill wrote: On 4/13/2011 5:47 PM, shali...@gmail.com wrote: Fluke.l is using my design except for a number of units which were shipped with 0 ohm resistors where the 3 diodes were supposed to go. This powers the CPU with 5 V instead of 3 and most don't last long

[time-nuts] Thunderbolt serial port problem

2011-04-13 Thread bill
will reverse engineer the serial port and trouble shoot. Bill K7NOM ___ 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] Thunderbolt serial port problem UPDATE

2011-04-13 Thread bill
On 4/13/2011 9:13 AM, bill wrote: I have a problem with the data out of the thunderbolt serial port. I was monitoring with ko4bb monitor and the thunderbolt quit sending data. I seem to remember some discussion of this on the list some time ago. I did a search but didn't find anything. Any

Re: [time-nuts] Tissot wrist watch

2011-04-06 Thread Bill S
reference timer is the MicroSet made by Bryan Mumford. It will do exactly what you want and even has an available GPS reference if you need the accuracy. I've used one for quite a few years and have no connection with Mumford except as a customer. Bill S I would like to know the precision

Re: [time-nuts] T.I. experimenting - newbie question

2011-04-03 Thread Bill Hawkins
For extra points, test with the same long cable at different temperatures. Say from soaking in a 150 deg F oven and a zero degree freezer. Bill Hawkins ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin

Re: [time-nuts] T.I. experimenting - newbie question

2011-04-02 Thread Bill Hawkins
. Try it with several different lengths of cable. If the unit length delay changes, something else is going on. Bill Hawkins ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts

Re: [time-nuts] Parts Selection

2011-03-25 Thread Bill Hawkins
solution to the 50/60 cycle line problem is a Z3801, a frequency synthesizer, and a 70 watt audio PA amplifier with 70 volt line output. Notice the clever way I've eliminated the bytes from previous messages . . . Bill Hawkins ___ time-nuts mailing

Re: [time-nuts] Reversing the 3522 OT Systron-Donner Basic

2011-03-21 Thread bill
You might want to post a request on; f...@flexusergroup.com This is a user group of programmers and users of the MC6800 and family. It may require a wait for the moderator to OK the post. Bill K7NOM On 3/20/2011 8:37 PM, Greg Broburg wrote: Any chance you have access to the operating code

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