Javier Herrero wrote:
That reminds me a shor story 'Survey Team' by Philip K. Dick :)
Reminds me of why the USA decided to pollute the world and continue to
earn more whilst we all have to give into USA taxation.
UK special relations? No, we get 'done in' by the USA protectionism as
Murray Greenman wrote:
Mark,
How do you KNOW your position to such accuracy? Is it in fact possible
to survey your position to that accuracy by any independent means?
If, for example, you use official survey marks to determine your
position by direct measurement, are the survey marks really
Mark Sims wrote:
Here are a couple of plots of 48 hour surveys done by Thunderbolts operating in
3D fix mode.
Which version of the Ladyheather software is that one please? Or, how
do you select the different displays?
Thanks - Dave
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p...@greenrover.demon.co.uk wrote:
Dave Ackrill wrote:
Mark Sims wrote:
the femtofortnight.
uk.rec.sheds lives!
For those that don't remember back to Usenet, this was in the days
before forums, when every discussion group had to get approval before
it was accepted on the system
Mike S wrote:
At 02:28 AM 8/20/2009, p...@greenrover.demon.co.uk wrote...
Dave Ackrill wrote:
See http://www.uk-rec-sheds.org.uk
Where was born the international standard unit of time - the
fortnight...
Not everything can be attributed to the modern computer world.
Indeed. According
Adrian wrote:
I've tried two different browsers, but I only get either a blank page or
weird code :(
I managed to get back to a main page at http://www.prc68.com/I/index.html#S
Try emailing the owner of the site to see if he can help as all I got
was strange characters using Opera as well.
M. Warner Losh wrote:
I'd try the FreeBSD distribution of Linux.
Thanks for the suggestions to use something else, but not an option.
Like I say, I *have* fedora, I'm not planning to uninstall it as it was
installed for me and I don't want the hassle. HI
Dave (G0DJA)
Anyone got any good Linux time systems for PCs ?
I now have a PC on my home system that has Linux fedora on it and I'm
keen to learn how to make it a useful new member of my network.
I did dabble with Redhat Linux once before in the 1990s, and still have
the scars to show for it, so please
Magnus Danielson wrote:
Fellow time-nuts,
GPS IIR-20 was succsessfully launched:
http://www.losangeles.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123141115
Expect it to show up on the receivers eventually. Currently only PRN01
is unused.
I see that jargon and a combination of business and space 'speak'
Lux, James P wrote:
A manager I worked for had the comment, when asked about focusing like a
laser on something, replied: you want to be careful about thermal blooming.
I like that, I may steal it if I get a chance. ;-)
Warfighters, international users, commercial users, and civil users
Lux, James P wrote:
Ah, stakeholders, what's the definition of a stakeholder?
The dead vampire.
Or, maybe a dead vampire on the end of your piece of wood?
Dave
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Rob Kimberley wrote:
Interesting article in GPS World on some jamming trials carried out in UK
last year.
http://tl.gpsworld.com/gpstl/Latest+News/Maritime-Jamming-Trial-Shows-GPS-Vu
lnerabilities/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/584318?contextCategoryId=1385
To help people with wrap round
Steve Rooke wrote:
Don't forget that some countries put the day in front of the month,
IE. it's 4th March here right now. This would mean that these days
would have to celebrated at different times in different countries.
When do we get to the 14th month? ;-)
Dave
Steve Rooke wrote:
2009/3/4 Dave Ackrill dave.g0...@tiscali.co.uk:
When do we get to the 14th month? ;-)
Don't have to, we can get to the 1st month, January.
OK, that gets us to 3/1 but where does the '4' come from? If you want
to count 4am, then you have to ignore the leading zero
Alternatively, if you unroll the TP by attaching a stone to the end
and letting it drop over a cliff then you have a really interesting
physics problem considering the acceleration of gravity, varying
mass, inertia, and radius of the roll, nonlinear friction in both air
and roller, etc.
I
Jim Palfreyman wrote:
Has anyone else had this problem?
The PSU that came with my Thunderbolt was DOA as well, like yours there
was the characteristic smell of burnt electronics when I opened it up.
I was lucky, I managed to get an almost exact replacement at a local
electronics shop and,
Lux, James P wrote:
I do not know why they run it so high, maybe they think they will
sell more power.
The problem is that many appliances have a 240 or 250 maximum, dual
power supplies for 110 V
switch to take 220 V.
That's actually pretty unlikely. 110V might be what it says on the
I've been reading the discussions and have to admit that alot of it is
out of my depth.
My question is this, does any of this mean that I should not use the
Thunderbolt to lock the 10MHz OXCO input of my newly bought, and still
being put in a box, 10GHz transverter?
I guess that it will be
VK3FGJM wrote:
Hi Ed,
Initially I felt that was the case, but after some brief RS-232
measurement and the ability to see the TX/RX LED radio buttons sync with
TX and RX data on the serial activity Monitor at the bottom left corner,
there is nothing wrong with the RS-232 lines.
Does anyone
John Ackermann N8UR wrote:
Folks, this started out as an off-topic question about getting
inoculations, and has turned into something even more off-topic and less
informative.
My appologies for starting this. For the record, I asked similar
questions on a couple of other forums where I
Sorry for the off topic question, but my partner, Kate, is off visiting
friends in Canada and USA on Friday and is in 'panic' mode.
The problem is that she has now got it into her head that she might need
to get innoculated for 'something', but she doesn't know what and I
don't think she needs
Thanks for the replies all. I won't respond to all of them
individually, but all the advice and links are grateully received.
Thanks - Dave
P.S - Yes, the one about coming back to the UK in February from Tampa
Bay may well be valid, but the first leg is from mild and wet UK to
freezing
Can someone cure this fail message please?
Thanks...
Secure Connection Failed
www.febo.com uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is not trusted because it is self signed.
The certificate is only valid for febo.com.
The certificate expired on 11/11/2008 14:57.
Tom Van Baak wrote:
Last I remember it did. I guess we'll find out in a few minutes...
http://www.leapsecond.com/java/nixie.htm
/tvb
It seemed to hang when the count got down to zero here, and now keeps
saying I have to refresh the page every so often.
Dave
Robert Atkinson wrote:
Hi Dave,
Farnell sell the plugs for the Pallisade (I assume you have the selfcontained
antenna/receiver unit). You have to buy the plug houding and contacts
separately. The manual (available online) has the part numbers if you look
carefully). I'm in California at
Robert Atkinson wrote:
Hi Dave,
Farnell sell the plugs for the Pallisade (I assume you have the selfcontained
antenna/receiver unit). You have to buy the plug houding and contacts
separately. The manual (available online) has the part numbers if you look
carefully). I'm in California at
Didier wrote:
With two clocks, you don't know which is right. With three, you know for a
fact they are all wrong :-)
Didier
I had a watch that I knew was correct twice a day...
Dave
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I have one of the circular Trimbel units, I think it might be a Jupiter?
Anyway, what I'm after is one of the multi-way plugs so that I can
connect it up and start to use it. Does anyone know of a source for
these plugs please?
Thanks - Dave
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Hal Murray wrote:
versus junk GPSDO
It's not junk.
What are you interested in? Short term stability or long term accuracy?
I'm glad to hear that the Thunderbolt is not classed as 'junk'... :-)
Personally, what I want to do is two things. 1. Keep my PC clock within
a reasonable
There was an interesting edition of a programme called 'In Our Time'
yesterday about time.
If you go to
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime.shtml you can
read about what was discussed and listen to the programme online as well.
Hope it's of interest.
Dave
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