Re: [time-nuts] Power Problems Lucent KS-24361, L101 & L102

2017-02-04 Thread Hal Murray
b...@baylorhill.com said: > Where does pin three (P1) connect. I may have trashed both units. Are > schematics available. I don't know of any schematics. I would take it apart and see if anything is connected to any of the other pins on those connectors. Or measure the resistance from the

Re: [time-nuts] eLoran test 6 Feb for almost 2 months

2017-02-04 Thread Hal Murray
kb...@n1k.org said: > If I had not already calibrated the local standard against a nearby chain … > no way to figure out which data was correct. Isn't the ground wave shorter and hence gets there sooner? Couldn't you use that to calibrate an uncalibrated local standard? -- These are my

Re: [time-nuts] eLoran test 6 Feb for almost 2 months

2017-02-03 Thread Hal Murray
kb...@n1k.org said: > the signal shows up over many 10’s of KHz of bandwidth each side of 100 > KHz. What does the spectrum look like? Is that even a reasonable question for that sort of signal? How well do typical old/analog spectrum analyzers work on that sort of signal? (as compared

Re: [time-nuts] Distribution amplifier (again!) - now mostly ok but has gain peaking

2017-01-28 Thread Hal Murray
anders.e.e.wal...@gmail.com said: > I see around 150-200ps skew which I tried to tune a bit with wires and 0R > resistors - without very much success.. any ideas for improving this - or > just leave it at 200ps skew? I don't have the numbers handy, but that's ballpark of an inch of trace on a

Re: [time-nuts] How good is the left end of your ADEV curve?

2017-01-26 Thread Hal Murray
kb...@n1k.org said: > ….. errr … would not that be the *right* end of the ADEV curve? …..:) Argh. Thanks for the correction. I got time and frequency swapped in my head, probably because I was thinking of the noise vs frequency plots that he showed. > Back in the 1980’s these guys

[time-nuts] How good is the left end of your ADEV curve?

2017-01-24 Thread Hal Murray
way way way left. Ray Weiss was the speaker at the Stanford Physics Colloquium today. In case you don't recognize the name, he is one of the leaders of the LIGO project that detected gravity waves about a year ago. He's a good speaker with a neat topic. He spent a lot of time giving credit

Re: [time-nuts] Autodesk Eagle -- maybe they're listening

2017-01-24 Thread Hal Murray
ke9h.gra...@gmail.com said: > So a learning curve to get up on KiCad and, for me, an issue migrating ten > years personal library of component foot-prints. The Eagle files are store in simple text. If there isn't already an Eagle to KiCad translator, I'd expect one soon. -- These are my

Re: [time-nuts] purpose of time of day display units

2017-01-22 Thread Hal Murray
jim...@earthlink.net said: > 3) It's a crude visual check - your eye/brain is pretty good at catching a > change in the pattern of blinky lights. IN this situation, you'd expect > all the displays to change simultaneously. Is there a term similar to "eye candy" for geeks? Many years ago, I

Re: [time-nuts] OT: Eagle PC CAD now Autodesk, $500/year

2017-01-19 Thread Hal Murray
> Still, the question arises: are there any affordable alternatives? kikad http://kicad-pcb.org/ I haven't done any serious work with it. When I looked 5 or 10 years ago, it was good enough to make some very nice big, complicated boards. (I don't know how much effort went into them.) It

Re: [time-nuts] Looking for GPS module (Exactime ET6000/Datum 9390-6000)

2017-01-17 Thread Hal Murray
hol...@hotmail.com said: > On the chip with the "MX" marking on it, what f/w version does it show > (usually v5.02 or v5.10)? I have a couple of CM3's configured for TAIP > output, but I have the programs for switching them to TSIP or NMEA. Does the which-protocol get saved away someplace or

Re: [time-nuts] Brass screws

2017-01-17 Thread Hal Murray
jebponso...@gmail.com said: > Though nominally made of copper and zinc, common brass often shows residual > ferro magnetism because it is "recovered" metal and is contaminated with > iron. That brass must never be used in a magnetic instrument have been known > for a very long time. What do

Re: [time-nuts] wifi with time sync

2017-01-14 Thread Hal Murray
kb...@n1k.org said: > Ok, what I see is that every few hours, I get a “rogue delay” on a single > ping. How would NTP help me spot a single transit with a 250 ms round trip > and identify the time it occured? Keep in mind that NTP is going to > throttle back to a very low level of “chat”

Re: [time-nuts] wifi with time sync

2017-01-13 Thread Hal Murray
> What standard protocol would you recommend I run from the command line on my > computer to get a quick estimate of the timing lag and variablilty on my > particular WiFi connection? I'd use ping. But you said "quick estimate". My wifi is crappy enough that its noise swamps everything

[time-nuts] How much unit to unit variation is there in low cost GPS receivers?

2017-01-09 Thread Hal Murray
Or batch to batch? If I get a unit of type A and another of type B and run some tests and conclude that A is better, will you get the same results if you try to repeat my tests? Will we get the same results if we swap units, that is run my tests at my location and with my setup using your

Re: [time-nuts] Survey plot as art.

2017-01-09 Thread Hal Murray
g...@rellim.com said: > Care to recommend any that have SMA connectors? I have found that a 3dB > difference in antenna can degrade my data quality, it would be interesting > to see how the 3dB loss of the splitter affects thins. There are 2 options for splitters. One is to use cable-TV

Re: [time-nuts] Survey plot as art.

2017-01-08 Thread Hal Murray
g...@rellim.com said: >> The Adafruit receiver outputs NMEA format data. The lat/lon values >> are sent as dddmm.mm format (ddd=degrees, mm.mm=minutes) This >> restricts the resolution of the values. > Yes, easy to see the quantization in the Adafruit plot. Something doesn't look quite

Re: [time-nuts] Survey plot as art.

2017-01-07 Thread Hal Murray
g...@rellim.com said: >> In my case (the original post) there can be no multipath difference, >> same antenna and done at the same time. > There sure can be. The GPS birds are moving in orbit. At certain points in > the sky their signal may be bouncing off a nearby steel building and into >

Re: [time-nuts] Survey plot as art.

2017-01-07 Thread Hal Murray
preilley_...@comcast.net said: > The curious thing are the excursions. Rather than being noise like, some > follow a distinct path. But this is only over a few seconds so it seems > unlikely that they are caused by weather conditions. ... I've seen similar quirks when a non-timing unit

Re: [time-nuts] Temperature (environmental) sensors

2017-01-05 Thread Hal Murray
jim...@earthlink.net said: > I'm kind of curious about their "UI".. hold CapsLock? how does this device > manifest itself to the host computer? I saw a mention of HID, so it is > emulating a keyboard? I have a couple of the non-Gold versions. Plastic with a push button. They have one

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Simulator

2017-01-04 Thread Hal Murray
time-nuts@febo.com said: > A PC can certainly generate a lot of frequencies. But if you want to use the > audio channels at 60KHz there is a little problem. There is a brick wall > filter in the audio channel set at about 25 KHz. The filters I'm familiar with in audio gear scale with the

Re: [time-nuts] Line Voltage - USA

2017-01-04 Thread Hal Murray
> Did the utility replace the damaged equipment? A friend lived in a building when the city crew working on a transformer put 440 on the line. It blew out all the electronics in 12 condos - mostly TVs. I think toasters and refrigerators were OK. There wasn't any question that the city was

Re: [time-nuts] Line Voltage - USA

2017-01-03 Thread Hal Murray
kb...@n1k.org said: > They sell a lot of 24 bit audio DAC’s into that sort of gear. Team them up > with some DSP and you get all sorts of interesting data. The “one number” > that counts is the fundamental …. DAC? There is a big market for high resolution ADCs in that area - one in

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Simulator

2017-01-02 Thread Hal Murray
time-nuts@febo.com said: > I have come up with a ridiculously simple WWVB simulator that simulates both > the AM modulation and the BPSK modulation. Did you consider software? Is the audio on a Raspberry Pi fast enough? I haven't looked at any details, but you can get ARM CPUs for ballpark

[time-nuts] Graphs

2017-01-02 Thread Hal Murray
Here is data from a system using Google's NTP servers. http://users.megapathdsl.net/~hmurray/time-nuts/leap/ntp-goog-leap.png The Offset is the view from another system. The drift is from the system itself. Google said 13.9 uSec/sec. That matches the step in the drift. Note the overshoot

Re: [time-nuts] new year crashes

2017-01-02 Thread Hal Murray
tract...@ihug.co.nz said: > The 'landline' networks also have significant (and variable) latency. ISTR > measuring a maximum of around 400/500 mSec some years ago on a WN-CH digital > link. Minimum over the test period of a week was nearer 250 mSec a few days > later. How can they get a delay

Re: [time-nuts] new year crashes

2017-01-01 Thread Hal Murray
m...@alignedsolutions.com said: > Are there "leap second" test sets that non time nuts could use to generate > leap second events during pre commissioning tests ? (I'm envisioning some > form of NTP server that could generate leap second events on command ?) There is a file of leap seconds.

Re: [time-nuts] new year crashes

2017-01-01 Thread Hal Murray
time-nuts@febo.com said: > Do they add the leap second at the same moment in time throughout the world, > or are the clocks here in NZ running 13 hours and 1 second ahead of those in > the UK for half of Jan 1st? It's added at the end of the last day of a month, UTC. That makes if 4PM local

Re: [time-nuts] Leap-second capture on laptop

2017-01-01 Thread Hal Murray
gha...@gmail.com said: > No NTP was running. What software told the kernel that there was going to be a leap second at the end of the day? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe,

Re: [time-nuts] Line Voltage [Was: Anyone (ideally in the UK) ...]

2017-01-01 Thread Hal Murray
The nice thing about the APC units is that they are close to free if you are already going to purchase a UPS. I agree that something like the Dranetz 658 would be better, but a quick peek at eBay shows prices far beyond what I'm willing to pay. > What's the sample rate on your APC UPS? I

Re: [time-nuts] Version 5 wrong leap second

2016-12-31 Thread Hal Murray
> I had LH on a ks24361. I think it displayed :00 for 2 seconds (my attempt to > record it failed). The autocapture (attached) was a little too early. I > guess this is because LH is polling the receiver every second and the actual > content depends on what the receiver replies and when it does

Re: [time-nuts] Measuring sidereal/solar time?

2016-12-30 Thread Hal Murray
att...@kinali.ch said: > After that, it's just some simple math of calculating the difference between > the position of the stars and where you would have expecteded them at the > time when the picture has been taken. You will probably have to correct for the distortion of the lens. That is a

[time-nuts] A Leap Second is coming

2016-12-28 Thread Hal Murray
Is everybody setup to watch it and collect lots of data? Anybody have a list of tools/toys for collecting data? An old favorite: www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/time/leap/test/timelog.c -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ time-nuts mailing

Re: [time-nuts] Could computers represent the timestamp differently?

2016-12-23 Thread Hal Murray
petervince1...@gmail.com said: > It seems to me that the major problem with the leap-second is the inability > of current computer operating systems to represent it, and this is due to > their using a second count since 1970 rather than writing it out as we would > by hand. Your suggestion

Re: [time-nuts] SR620: odd measurements when in remote control

2016-12-21 Thread Hal Murray
> on start up i have an odd behavior. > 0, 1.99881895E+07 > 0, 1.99881912E+07 > 0, 1.99881757E+07 > 7, 1.99881856E+07 > 17, 1.99881878E+07 > 27, 1.99881900E+07 > What do you think? Looks like you are expecting readings every 10 seconds but it's sending a few samples

Re: [time-nuts] 1PPS users?

2016-12-18 Thread Hal Murray
preilley_...@comcast.net said: > I would like to get better than the +-10 nS that the better receivers > provide. A GPSDO generally avoids the sawtooth offset. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ time-nuts mailing list --

Re: [time-nuts] Why is holdover LED on HP 58503A not lit, when GPS lock is unlit too?

2016-12-18 Thread Hal Murray
drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk said: > I assume it wont start until it has tracked sufficient number of satellites. There is a chicken-egg problem with getting started. The satellites tell you where they are, but you need to know where they are and where you are in order to calculate the

Re: [time-nuts] 1PPS users?

2016-12-18 Thread Hal Murray
b...@evoria.net said: > So, if an NTP user can get his time fix directly from a noisy receiver, who > actually needs a time-accurate, low jitter 1PPS pulse? Most kernels have an option to capture a time stamp from a PPS signal at interrupt time. That is much more accurate than the timing you

Re: [time-nuts] Totally unrelated, but..

2016-12-07 Thread Hal Murray
kb...@n1k.org said: >> the cool thing about those parts is that their PSRR extends >> up to several MHz. A lot of LDOs have good PSRR to kHz. > Which to bring it back to noise in radios ….. could be the issue there. The > device isn’t oscillating, it’s just not blocking the crud from

Re: [time-nuts] Question on LH

2016-12-07 Thread Hal Murray
ch...@chriscaudle.org said: > Mark has explained previously on the list, but it is actually kind of > convoluted. The command to set the position does not accept enough numeric > precision to accurately set the position which was determined from > long term averaging... What does the chop-off

Re: [time-nuts] Audio format with embedded timestamps?

2016-12-02 Thread Hal Murray
tsho...@gmail.com said: > I have some long (24 hour) WAV files and will see if I can come to any > determination about the offset and spread of the sampling rate. e.g. if the > sampling rate nominally 44100, how precise is that in my PC's hardware? I > would bet this is tied to a crystal in the

Re: [time-nuts] Is there any Ubuntu/Linux Software for the Z3801A?

2016-12-01 Thread Hal Murray
walt...@sphere.bc.ca said: > After re-working the lab I have my Z3801A in, I realized there's no windows > computers left anywhere near there. Is there any monitoring software that > will run on my 16.04 Ubuntu Linux machines? Depending on what you want, your best bet may be to wait for the

Re: [time-nuts] Best Chance GPS module

2016-12-01 Thread Hal Murray
kb...@n1k.org said: > The navigation solution is something you must have before you can begin to > get a timing solution. That sounds like a 2 step process: where, then when. Does it work that way? I thought you got where and when at the same time - you couldn't get where without also

Re: [time-nuts] Google public NTP service

2016-11-30 Thread Hal Murray
tn1...@nic.fi said: > I wonder what this stupid "leap smear" will do to NTP driftfiles. ... There was a report on that area mentioned here a while ago. As long as the smearing is slow enough, the client servers easily track the drift. There is a bump in their drift, but it's not a problem for

Re: [time-nuts] RPi/ beagle bone-like computer without video

2016-11-30 Thread Hal Murray
jim...@earthlink.net said: > I'm looking for a small linux single board - similar to RPi or Beaglebone > Black, but don't need the HDMI, or video stuff. Don't limit your search to things that doen't have what you don't need. It may be cheaper to get a high volume part and ignore the sections

Re: [time-nuts] HP Z3801A Software

2016-11-29 Thread Hal Murray
w1...@earthlink.net said: > Any other software out there for the "Z-Box" besides SatStat (clock works, > nothing else) or What are you looking for? I have a python hack that displays the status screen every N seconds and logs a bunch of parameters so you can feed them to gnuplot or the tools

Re: [time-nuts] Trimble 65256 OCXO

2016-11-27 Thread Hal Murray
tract...@ihug.co.nz said: > I thought it may be a reference supply for the EFC pin- with a 12.03 volt > supply the unknown pin measures at 2.803 volts-which is usefully above the > required EFC voltage ( ~2.4 volts) to bring it on frequency. > But does anyone have some hard data on this

Re: [time-nuts] Do reflections up/down the antenna cable cause a problem with GPS?

2016-11-21 Thread Hal Murray
p...@phk.freebsd.dk said: > I think the installation manual for Trimbles timing products say you can use > either 75 or 50 Ohm cable... I think they suggest using RG-6, the classic cable TV and/or satellite dish cable. It's widely available at low cost. The loss due to impedance mismatch is

[time-nuts] How can I measure GPS Antenna quality?

2016-11-20 Thread Hal Murray
Is that even a sensible question? Is there a better way to phrase it? The problem I'm trying to avoid is that the weather and the satellite geometry change over time so I can't just collect data for X hours, switch to the other antenna or move the antenna to another location, collect more

Re: [time-nuts] Question about AD9832 "I out Full Scale" (what does it mean?)

2016-11-18 Thread Hal Murray
rich...@karlquist.com said: > I would have thought (just guessing) that peak to peak output current would > be equal to Iout Full Scale, but it appears to be only half of that. > Can anyone clarify this? Don't overlook a bug in the data sheet. The data sheet for the actual part at

Re: [time-nuts] precision timing pulse

2016-11-16 Thread Hal Murray
t...@leapsecond.com said: > Arduino probably uses compiled code, external libraries, and interrupts so > that also is a no-no for precise time. There are two parts to the Arduino ecosystem. One is low cost hardware. The other is a software package that is easy for non-wizards to use. I'd be

Re: [time-nuts] precision timing pulse

2016-11-16 Thread Hal Murray
ch...@chriscaudle.org said: > but once you get to most of the ARM processors it is harder to make them > deterministic because of caches. There are many ARM SOC chips that are half way between an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi. They have GPIO and various serial ports and counter/timers. They

Re: [time-nuts] precision timing pulse

2016-11-16 Thread Hal Murray
albertson.ch...@gmail.com said: > I'm wondering why everyone seems to be assuming a PIC is the right processor If you want cycle-accurate timing, one approach is to count cycles. If you have an assembly level background, the PIC is as good as any small chip. Yes, it's a pain to get started

Re: [time-nuts] precision timing pulse

2016-11-15 Thread Hal Murray
ciandjabu...@gmail.com said: > How do I get a pulse to start with a push button and then stop for example > 500 or 10,000 seconds later? How about another PIC? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ time-nuts mailing list --

Re: [time-nuts] Secondary phase noise standard & FE405

2016-11-12 Thread Hal Murray
kb...@n1k.org said: > Yes, the FE-405 uses a DDS and a cleanup. Inside the cleanup loop the DDS > spurs come straight through. Since the FE-405 compensates for all sorts of > things, the DDS moves around a lot. Even a one bit change on a DDS will move > spurs around. With an ever changing DDS,

Re: [time-nuts] Swagelok and metric tubing question

2016-11-12 Thread Hal Murray
garygar...@earthlink.net said: > I was kinda wondering about that. Isn't H the escape artist of the periodic > table? I think that's helium. They way they get it commercially is to start with gas wells that have lots of it. I think some of them are 4%. Then they just push it through

Re: [time-nuts] Swagelok and metric tubing question

2016-11-12 Thread Hal Murray
cdel...@juno.com said: > I just went ahead and got the short section from McMaster Carr. Want to make > sure it's right if I'm at 400+ PSI with Hydrogen for years at a time!!! How much hydrogen does a maser use? How big is the tank? Does it leak through cracks or migrate through metal? --

Re: [time-nuts] How to get PPS from ublox mini-PCI GPS to APU2 SoC serial port for ntpd

2016-11-10 Thread Hal Murray
t...@leapsecond.com said: > The PIC's I use have essentially no jitter. If they generate a 1PPS the edge > and the pulse width are perfect, down to picoseconds. The talk about "other > stuff" and "priority" and "number of compares" and "ambiguity" is worrisome. > It sounds like a design or coding

Re: [time-nuts] How to get PPS from ublox mini-PCI GPS to APU2 SoC serial port for ntpd

2016-11-10 Thread Hal Murray
albertson.ch...@gmail.com said: > If using the PPS for timing and the PPS is inverted you will have to measure > the delay length an account for in the config file. Or use the falling edge rather than the rising edge. Most instrumentation has a knob/button/whatever to select which direction to

Re: [time-nuts] Any reference to many/all ways of measuring frequency?

2016-11-10 Thread Hal Murray
drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk said: > I was looking to give a talk about frequency measurements to my amateur > radio club. Whilst I am sure that those at the club will only use a > commercial frequency counter, I thought it sensible to mention a large > number of ways, as I think that would

Re: [time-nuts] How to get PPS from ublox mini-PCI GPS to APU2 SoC serial port for ntpd

2016-11-08 Thread Hal Murray
g...@rellim.com said: > Who cares if the PPS is inverted? Good point. I wasn't paying attention to the PPS only context in the subject. I keep forgetting which way is best for PPS. Fortunately, all the software I've used knows how to handle inverted PPS. The original message in this

Re: [time-nuts] How to get PPS from ublox mini-PCI GPS to APU2 SoC serial port for ntpd

2016-11-08 Thread Hal Murray
stry...@hotmail.com said: > Would this do the trick? - http://www.banggood.com/8-Channel-Logic-Level-Tran > slator-Converter-Bi-Directional-Module-p-1023173.html Not likely. The normal RS-232 level shifter chip includes an inverter. (No good reason, just historical, but with a long history.)

Re: [time-nuts] Thermal impact on OCXO

2016-11-07 Thread Hal Murray
kb...@n1k.org said: > Yes, that’s a bit of a long winded reply … sorry about that. It was also valuable. Thanks. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to

Re: [time-nuts] I love the smell of tantalum in the morning

2016-11-06 Thread Hal Murray
jim...@earthlink.net said: > tweezers to remove > single iron to install > use a orange stick to hold the part down while you solder each end. How many hands does that take? I normally use one to hold the iron and the other to apply solder. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam.

Re: [time-nuts] I love the smell of tantalum in the morning

2016-11-05 Thread Hal Murray
t...@leapsecond.com said: > Having not done SMT before, how should I do it with minimal risk to the > very precious PCB. Or, what equipment should I use this as a good excuse > to buy? If you can get at it, 2 soldering irons, one on each end, works reasonably well. When both ends are melted,

Re: [time-nuts] Thermal impact on OCXO

2016-11-05 Thread Hal Murray
> At 12 hours of holdover... > I think I'll need a lot more understanding of the impact of aging vs > temperature At that timescale, I'd expect aging to be lost in the noise. How are you calibrating things? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam.

Re: [time-nuts] Newbie With a Z3801 Problem

2016-11-04 Thread Hal Murray
I would put a scope on the TX line from the Z3801A and power cycle it. I'm pretty sure it prints out the version string on power up. Have you checked the power supplies? Or looked for old electrolytics? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam.

Re: [time-nuts] Satellite TV messed up, how is GPS time

2016-11-04 Thread Hal Murray
petervince1...@gmail.com said: > Sorry Don, I beg to differ. The effects are often not noticeable in these > days of digital television, but the noise-floor can definitely be seen to > rise dramatically on a spectrum analyser. Right. But I think that's because the sun is lining up with the

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather and LeapSecond

2016-11-04 Thread Hal Murray
> it did when my Z3801A did a false leap-second at the end of September. Was there a similar problem/opportunity at the end of Oct? Should we watch at the end of Nov (last chance for a while)? What did the Z3801A do? Was the bug in the Z3801A or in an ancient version of ntpd without the fix

Re: [time-nuts] Man with too many clocks.

2016-11-04 Thread Hal Murray
kb...@n1k.org said: > The only practical way to set the 10811 or 10544 is with a >= 10 turn pot on > the EFC. I never have worked out just why there are so many instruments that > don’t have a pot on the EFC. How would temperature effect that? For that matter, how does temperature effect

Re: [time-nuts] So what’s inside that Cs Beam Tube anyway?

2016-10-31 Thread Hal Murray
> To enjoy the links, replace CS-tube with CS_tube in the links. Worked for me without the edit and didn't work with that change. (Skip may have fixed the web site names? Or maybe there is something interesting going on.) -- These are my opinions. I hate spam.

Re: [time-nuts] our favorite topics

2016-10-30 Thread Hal Murray
> http://cache.nxp.com/documents/data_sheet/BFG135.pdf?pspll=1 The usual suppliers say that it's no longer available. What do you use/suggest these days? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB software for PC

2016-10-29 Thread Hal Murray
> Any freeware out there to decode WWVB or any of the other standards out > there? Using an audio card and pc? The low cost WWVB receivers put out an on/off signal which can be wired up to a modem control signal. Many many years ago, I found some software that decoded that. Or tried to. I

Re: [time-nuts] WWV receivers?

2016-10-29 Thread Hal Murray
nsa...@kfu.com said: > That single-chip version is going to have a *LOT* less (and less variable) > latency than an SDR. Latency isn't an issue as long as it is known so that you can correct for it. Has anybody measured the jitter through SDR and/or tried to reduce it? I'd expect that even

Re: [time-nuts] Timing from Iridium satellites

2016-10-27 Thread Hal Murray
stewart.c...@gmail.com said: > I hope this is not too blatantly commercial for this list Looks good to me. Thanks. Are the specs for extracting timing from Iridium available without NDA or $$$? Page 6 shows several hardware boards/boxes. The NooElec NESDR Mini 2 USB Stick seems like the

[time-nuts] WWV receivers?

2016-10-26 Thread Hal Murray
tsho...@gmail.com said: > I'm all for a diversity of systems - putting all our eggs in the GPS basket > seems unwise (and I maintain WWV receivers hooked to NTP at home!) What is available in the way of WWV receivers? Anybody got a summary handy? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam.

Re: [time-nuts] Linux PPS clues?

2016-10-20 Thread Hal Murray
i...@iliaplatone.com said: > sorry, no attachment, this mail contains two images, one is the previous > attempt, the second (IMG_003.JPG) was taken at 5us/div, 1v/div with a > different oscilloscope setup. The first one looks like you are triggering on noise or runt pulses. What does it look

Re: [time-nuts] Linux PPS clues?

2016-10-20 Thread Hal Murray
i...@iliaplatone.com said: > These events are random photon arrivals (converted to 5vTTL pulses), their > rate was measured using the pulse width of the smaller detected, which was > 5~10 uS during an observation in low-light environment. The photon arrival > and pulse width were random with a

Re: [time-nuts] leontp offset

2016-10-20 Thread Hal Murray
> full disclosure: there were a couple of outlier external clocks I threw out, > one with a 38 ms offset and the other with a 112 ms offset). That's not uncommon. It happens more often when the server is farther away and there are more opportunities for strange network routing. The NIST

Re: [time-nuts] 1PPS to 32.768 khz

2016-10-19 Thread Hal Murray
> Here's another way to do it for a wall clock display... set up an > oscillator/divider (or even a 555 timer) to generate a frequency close to, > but faster than 65536 Hz.Setup a 16 bit counter clocked by that signal. > When the 1PPS signal arrives, start the counter. After 65536 pulses

Re: [time-nuts] 1PPS to 32.768 khz

2016-10-19 Thread Hal Murray
davidwh...@gmail.com said: > I think a PIC might be fast enough to DDS it. The output bandpass filter > will cure a lot of sin. Using a dedicated switched capacitor filter would > be fun but more expensive. There are two parts to a DDS like setup. One is the math for the DDS and then

Re: [time-nuts] 1PPS to 32.768 khz

2016-10-19 Thread Hal Murray
> 1. Does anyone know of a device that will take a 1PPS GPS timing signal and > generate a 32.768 kHz sine wave output ? I have big digital clock that uses > an 8 bit micro processor and an external 32.768 crystal. Obviously the > external crystal is awful for accuracy. I don't know of any

Re: [time-nuts] PC clock generator without 14.318MHz

2016-10-18 Thread Hal Murray
jim...@earthlink.net said: > What I need is that really boring single camera watching from a single > viewpoint with a high resolution counter in the field of view. The "big > countdown clock" at KSC doesn't show fractions of a second. What's the technology for that clock? I'll guess that was

Re: [time-nuts] Moving GPSDO

2016-10-17 Thread Hal Murray
jg...@zianet.com said: > What about this scenario - the GPSDO has a fixed position on initial > powerup, but then it is moved periodically or even continuously, without > updating the GPS coordinates. The distance from the original coordinates > could be anywhere from close by, to across the

Re: [time-nuts] leontp offset?

2016-10-14 Thread Hal Murray
gmx.tallahas...@gmail.com said: > the offset of the leontp device from the other clocks has consistently been > in the 9.5 -10.5 range. since I'm measuring all three sources from the > same (EL7) computer, I would expect that the offset of the leontp unit to > converge to be in the close

Re: [time-nuts] For those that insist on using switching power supplies

2016-10-14 Thread Hal Murray
time-nuts@febo.com said: >> Nick, thanks for your detailed reply. Would you happen to have a photo of >> the "spring looking things?" I am not entirely sure I have one of those >> included with the kit that came with the scope. > I don’t have a picture, but the Internet does:

Re: [time-nuts] For those that insist on using switching power supplies

2016-10-13 Thread Hal Murray
> Whether they actually met it, then pulled the interference supression parts > off the board as a "cost reduction" as is common in no-name computer power > supplies, or whether it never met it to begin with, is for you to speculate. I only watched the first part of the video. I'm surprised

Re: [time-nuts] ntp and asymmetric delays

2016-10-11 Thread Hal Murray
t...@westwood-tech.com said: > I was going to post my ntp output and ask for an opinion, then this > discussion popped up. It would appear that asymmetric delays are the exact > explanation for what I am seeing. Is that a reasonable assumption? It does > seem to be rather consistent throughout

Re: [time-nuts] TimeLab

2016-10-09 Thread Hal Murray
t...@leapsecond.com said: > No, not narrow pulses. Do not use the trailing edge of a 1PPS. This is more > about 1 Hz from a stable frequency standard, not 1PPS from a noisy GPS > receiver. I think we are discussing two different things. Your setup would work if the pulse-under-test is

Re: [time-nuts] TimeLab

2016-10-09 Thread Hal Murray
t...@leapsecond.com said: > 1) My *work-around* is to adjust the REF 1PPS by tens of microseconds, or > even 500 ms. That avoids running into sign changes and skipped samples when > a TIC gets near zero. This works really well for stable clocks where 500 ms > drift is next to impossible. How

Re: [time-nuts] Prologix USB-GPIB Controller

2016-10-07 Thread Hal Murray
> They get counterfeited a *lot*. Is that true for relatively obscure things like the Prologix GPIB controllers that aren't high volume? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to

Re: [time-nuts] Inexpensive Alternative to a 5120A

2016-10-07 Thread Hal Murray
jim...@earthlink.net said: > I happen to use the ethernet one, but I would imagine the USB one also > works fine. I've had more trouble with non-standard USB devices (e.g. not a > disk drive, keyboard, mouse, or serial port) on Linux than on Windows or > Mac OSX - but I don't know what the

Re: [time-nuts] Need Time Help

2016-10-06 Thread Hal Murray
albertson.ch...@gmail.com said: > The problem is harder then most people think. To avoid jumps in time either > forward or backwards the software must be something that runs continuously > and monitors your clock vs. one or more reference clocks. Logically there > is no other way. I think it

Re: [time-nuts] Measure GPSDO stability with minimum resources?

2016-10-05 Thread Hal Murray
j99har...@gmail.com said: > Unless the oscillator is still warming up, 5 minutes or even 60 is way too > short a time to look at aging. For aging, you will want to look at the > change in DAC values over several days at least. I think it's worse than that. You have to hold the temperature

Re: [time-nuts] ADC sample voting algorithm?

2016-10-05 Thread Hal Murray
time-nuts@febo.com said: > That’s kind of why I’m going down the road of multiple samples - to see if > there’s anything to it. I would hack up some way to grab a clump (say 10) of samples and print them out where you can capture them on a PC and analyze them. I'd start by looking with

Re: [time-nuts] Roughtime

2016-10-05 Thread Hal Murray
albertson.ch...@gmail.com said: > But I use a set of five different servers all controlled by different > organizations and they are geographically distributed. Also some of these > are randomly elected "pool" servers. So even I don't know who I will ask > for time. How could anyone corrupt

Re: [time-nuts] Need Time Help

2016-10-04 Thread Hal Murray
david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk said: > You can use a GPS puck or equivalent with PPS output to get the sort of > accuracy you need. ..: PPS output is only half the battle. You also have to get it into the system that needs it. A modem control signal on an old fashioned serial port (not USB)

Re: [time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO

2016-09-22 Thread Hal Murray
> Is there a pinout posted somewhere for the Lucent box RS422 D sub 9 > connector? It's in the mail archives. Google for something like >time-nuts RS422 pinout< If you are interested in timing, you want the PPS signal too. (It won't be great over USB, but it might be fun to play with. You

Re: [time-nuts] Normal operating specs of a Morion MV89?

2016-09-20 Thread Hal Murray
bruce.griffi...@xtra.co.nz said: >> It is possible to check the output level without an oscilloscope ? > Only with a clasical (diode detector) RF probe (they're still available) or > an RF power meter. How about a diode, small cap, and a DC meter? (and a few clip leads) It won't give an

Re: [time-nuts] 53132A triggering

2016-09-16 Thread Hal Murray
> For a low duty cycle pulse, the ac coupled signal will be approximately the > same as if it were dc coupled. Not sure I follow what you mean. There will > be only one rising edge for a narrow pulse ac coupled, as the falling edge > occurs much quicker than the HPF time constant. If there is

Re: [time-nuts] HP-105B Battery Replacement?

2016-09-16 Thread Hal Murray
g...@rellim.com said: > APC UPS can't handle the longer runtime, but never had a problem with any > version of CyberPower. There are two parameters for UPS boxes. One is the power the electronics can handle. The other is the amount of energy the batteries can hold. I think some of the

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