Re: [time-nuts] GPS jump

2014-10-11 Thread Hal Murray
gign...@gmail.com said: Is it actually possible to phase lock two oscillators together cross the distance from DC to Colorado Springs? (2400 kilometers or so). ? I think so - if your clocks are stable enough. There is probably a simple rule for PLL stability based on round-trip-time and

Re: [time-nuts] HP10811-60212-B Pinouts.

2014-10-11 Thread Hal Murray
b...@evoria.net said: I found a picture that looks like your OCXO on Brooke Clarke's website. Maybe he has a schematic or pinouts for the oscillator. http://www.prc68.com/I/Images/Z3805A07b.jpg More info here: http://www.prc68.com/I/Z3805A.html The Z3805A is very similar to the Z3801A

Re: [time-nuts] Sun Outage

2014-10-09 Thread Hal Murray
b...@evoria.net said: Two days this week, there was a 3 or 4 minute outage on DirecTV as the sun aligned with the satellite and my dish. So I was wondering what kind of effect this has on the GPS system and especially timing receivers. Is there any easy way to get a signal/noise reading out

Re: [time-nuts] fast switching quiet synthesizer

2014-10-08 Thread Hal Murray
br...@ko4bb.com said: Kratos (www.kratosepd.com) do fast switching synthesiser subsystems that can be locked to a reference.. What does fast switching mean in the context of a DDS? What does the spectrum of a DDS look like if I switch back and forth between 2 frequencies at 1 KHz? Or

Re: [time-nuts] 5370 processor boards available

2014-10-08 Thread Hal Murray
j...@jks.com said: I made a real mistake by not running the 5370's 10 MHz oven clock, that was available right there on a processor board pin, to a GPIO on the Beagle so it could be accurately counted with the built-in event counter and software overflow (that clock used to drive the

Re: [time-nuts] fast switching quiet synthesizer

2014-10-07 Thread Hal Murray
jim...@earthlink.net said: I could hook a Prologix on the back of a PTS with GPIB, and hit it over the ethernet, but I'm not sure I'd be able to get the steps to occur when I want them (ethernet and determinism do not go well together). Timing on Ethernet is as good as RS-232 if you have a

Re: [time-nuts] How long do ovens take to cool to ambient after power is removed?

2014-10-01 Thread Hal Murray
drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk said: Anyway, later today (tomorrow ??) I will post a plot of frequency vs time. The question is though, how long is thing thing likely to take too cool? I'd expect an exponential decay so you need to specify how close to ambient you want to get. I'd guess a

Re: [time-nuts] GPS-disciplining an ordinary VCXO?

2014-09-30 Thread Hal Murray
hau...@keteu.org said: I am trying to avoid an extra A/D step here, but I have no experience with it. Post-filter, I am satisfied that a simple one-bit D/A with passive filtering will get me to 16 bits resolution for the VCXO control, enough for ppb resolution. One bit D/As need a filter.

Re: [time-nuts] GPS-disciplining an ordinary VCXO?

2014-09-30 Thread Hal Murray
hau...@keteu.org said: It was the other end of the PLL I was hoping to get some pointers on. Specifically, I can implement the dividers and the standard double-flip-flop PFD, but what best replaces the charge pump in a fully-digital implementation? I will have down/up signals which are

Re: [time-nuts] Clock level conversion 5V - 3.3V

2014-09-30 Thread Hal Murray
vesoa...@deea.isel.ipl.pt said: I would suggest some 3.3V logic (inverter) gate with 5V tolerant inputs from Little Logic TI portfolio. There are buffered and unbuffered gate available. What's the advantage of a chip over a pair of resistors? hau...@keteu.org said: I have seen a resistive

Re: [time-nuts] What sort of oscillator is this?

2014-09-29 Thread Hal Murray
drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk said: Unfortunately Keysight have now sold all the cables, but do have the front panel overlay which is arguably the most critical item. Spending £500 on 5 cables and a front panel overly is more attractive than spending £8000 on an upgrading the model. For

Re: [time-nuts] What sort of oscillator is this?

2014-09-28 Thread Hal Murray
drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk said: Two people responded - one says a OCXO and the other an TCXO!! The warmup time is I think an hour, but clearly that is not the time for an oven to warm up. An hour seems like a reasonable OCXO warm-up time to me. You might get faster warm-up times, but

Re: [time-nuts] Homemade GPS Receiver

2014-09-26 Thread Hal Murray
he...@pericynthion.org said: Since the GPS signals come from all parts of the sky this is pretty much required, unless you're using fancy beam steering techniques. How hard is the beam steering relative to everything else? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam.

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB d-psk-r down conversion method

2014-09-22 Thread Hal Murray
paulsw...@gmail.com said: Did try lots of frequencies and divider math to come up with a simple LO scheme for 61 or 59 KHz. Messy. There are companies that will make a crystal or oscillator at any frequency you want at a not silly price. Delivery is not overnight. Beware: There are several

Re: [time-nuts] Thunderbolt Rollover

2014-09-17 Thread Hal Murray
I don't think you can use a GPS almanac from 2012. Why not? Just pretend that the time you want is 2012+1024 weeks. You won't be able to watch it pass through the magic rollover time, but you can verify that it works correctly once it gets past that magic time. Crazy question

Re: [time-nuts] Correcting jitter on the 1PPS signal from a GPS receiver

2014-09-16 Thread Hal Murray
oldmath...@gmail.com said: has anyone suggested a 50R in series with a capacitor as termination? no DC currents I've seen that suggestion before. I don't remember where. It was a long time ago. In order to work, the R-C time constant has to be long relative to the rise/fall time of the

Re: [time-nuts] Finally, Success

2014-09-16 Thread Hal Murray
mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org said: [snip long discussion of PID/PLL] Make sure you have a damping factor of at least 3. Is that a general rule for PIDs or something specific to PLLs/GPSDOs? Where did the value 3 come from? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam.

Re: [time-nuts] Correcting jitter on the 1 PPSsignalfromaGPSreceiver.

2014-09-16 Thread Hal Murray
saidj...@aol.com said: here are some plots from two GPSDOs, one series terminated (CSAC GPSDO), and one load-terminated (Agilent 58503A) product. Nice pictures. Thanks. My reading of your pictures is that the 58503A has a weak driver. Do you have a TBolt? ... and there is a little hump

Re: [time-nuts] Thunderbolt Rollover

2014-09-16 Thread Hal Murray
matthias.je...@gmx.de said: So I took the unit to work and hooked it to a signal generator capable of simulating GPS, GNSS etc... Neat. Thanks, both for running the experiment and for sharing the results. Thunderbolt will be usable after July, 2017 - I?d be happy to live with a wrong

Re: [time-nuts] Correcting jitter on the 1 PPSsignalfromaGPSreceiver.

2014-09-15 Thread Hal Murray
Also, another issue with the end termination happens when driving very long coax cables: RG-142 for example has about 60 Ohms center conductor resistance and 7.5 Ohms shield resistance at 1km length. RG-142 is far from low-loss. Does anybody use it at that length? What's the rise time

Re: [time-nuts] Correcting jitter on the 1 PPS signalfrom a GPS receiver.

2014-09-15 Thread Hal Murray
dave.martind...@gmail.com said: Is there any reason (other than cost) not to both series-terminate the source and parallel-terminate the sink? With both series and parallel termination, the signal at the receiver is 1/2 the output level of the output driver. That doesn't work well if you

Re: [time-nuts] Correcting jitter on the 1 PPSsignalfromaGPSreceiver.

2014-09-15 Thread Hal Murray
tmiller11...@verizon.net said: So does adding ~80 pF per meter or 8 nF for 100 meters (RG58) to your output have any effect on the risetime? Because that is what it will see with an open cable. That way of thinking only works if the risetime is long relative to the cable length. In this

Re: [time-nuts] Help understanding an ADEV

2014-09-14 Thread Hal Murray
b...@evoria.net said: Note: The DAC module is designed specifically for audio applications and is not recommended for control type applications. I had hoped that it wouldn't be a problem for driving an OCXO, but my mistake. The datasheet also notes that the DAC has 16-bit resolution but

Re: [time-nuts] OCXO Voltage Input? (Bob Camp)

2014-09-06 Thread Hal Murray
kb...@n1k.org said: The biggest problem comes from crystal spurs rather than crystal Q. What's the mechanism for making spurs with a crystal? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To

Re: [time-nuts] OCXO Voltage Input? (Bob Camp)

2014-09-05 Thread Hal Murray
d...@irtelemetrics.com said: If I had 10Mhz or some other high frequency on the EFC line, would a typical OCXO respond to that? Some VCXOs actually specify their bandwidth. High audio is sometimes useful. I haven't seen anything beyond that, but I'm just listening to discussions like this

Re: [time-nuts] OCXO Voltage Input?

2014-09-05 Thread Hal Murray
This topic comes up every few years. I found an interesting thread back in late 2006. Typical EFC frequency response (bandwidth) of a OCXO https://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2006-December/022758.html -- These are my opinions. I hate spam.

Re: [time-nuts] Need help with transformer core

2014-08-29 Thread Hal Murray
cdel...@juno.com said: The Dc to Dc is running at 22Khz and maybe 20 Watts. Can't find any info that would allow me to decide on a proper substitute. Anybody out there have any data on this? National Semiconductor had a few app-notes that were cookbooks for using their chips to build DC-DC

Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 121, Issue 65

2014-08-23 Thread Hal Murray
kb...@n1k.org said: If you have a temperature stable environment (or create one) you can get some very good results with an (good) Rb locked to a (good) GPS via a proper long time constant setup. It’s not easy, but it can be done. What's the temperature sensitivity of the typical

Re: [time-nuts] Ublox neo-7M GPS

2014-08-21 Thread Hal Murray
tn...@toneh.demon.co.uk said: Tony, any chance you could do a quick measurement at 8 MHz - I think that should be a more constant period. ... No problem, its still set-up. As you'd expect its rock solid at 8MHz with no visible jitter. I don't think you have fixed the problem, just made

Re: [time-nuts] HP Z3805A

2014-08-20 Thread Hal Murray
komne...@yahoo.co.jp said: My Z3805A has the trouble that the date on SATSTAT is not changed by command (:GPS:INIT:DATE (yr,mo,day)). Anyone can advice me for the above. It may only work if you send the date before it locks to GPS. That is you need to do something like: power off

Re: [time-nuts] Ublox neo-7M GPS

2014-08-19 Thread Hal Murray
saidj...@aol.com said: its not a GPSDO though, not even a simple one :) It does not discipline an oscillator. It generates the output by mathematically calculating how many phases it has to add/drop in a second, then digitally adds/drops/extends/retards the phase of the output clock to

[time-nuts] One man's noise is another man's signal...

2014-08-14 Thread Hal Murray
Tue evening, I went to a talk on Auroras and Solar Storms. It was targeted as the general public so they didn't get into any technical details. One of the pictures showed a GPS setup. They were using it to measure free electrons in the ionosphere. A friend found this in case anybody wants

Re: [time-nuts] Meinberg or T/Bolt for PC time?

2014-08-11 Thread Hal Murray
ch...@chriswilson.tv said: I have 4 windows based PC's on my home network, for years i have used Meinberg or an equivalent to set the PC time. I was wondering if I could, or should, use my permanently on Trimble Thunderbolt to set the PC clocks? Any advantages or disadvantages. I believe

Re: [time-nuts] multipath on GPS

2014-08-08 Thread Hal Murray
jim...@earthlink.net said: Does anyone have a feel for what the minimum size reflector at some small distance would be detectable on a GPS timing receiver? WOuld you be able to see a change of a 1 meter square reflector 10 meters away? I suspect it depends on the elevation angle of the

Re: [time-nuts] Effects of noise on EFC line? - Resolved

2014-08-07 Thread Hal Murray
b...@evoria.net said: So, I may throw another cap on it, but it seems to be clean down to what I can measure at the OCXO on my old Tek 455 with an X10 probe. Another thing to consider when chasing that sort of problem: How much are you picking up with your scope probe and/or its ground wire?

Re: [time-nuts] Tektronix TM500 extender cable kit

2014-08-04 Thread Hal Murray
It turned out that ribbon cable appropriate for this application was either not available or too expensive. Are standard disk cables a reasonable length? (and a pinout you can use) I don't know the details, but there are two types of disk cables. The old style uses standard 40 pin ribbon

[time-nuts] GPS Antenna Bandwidth

2014-07-28 Thread Hal Murray
PS: What sort of Bandwidth is found in GPS front ends and antennae? Ballpark of 20-50 Mhz. The data sheet for the Motorola patch antenna from TAPR says 45 MHz for the 3 db points. https://www.tapr.org/gps_ant1a.html -- These are my opinions. I hate spam.

Re: [time-nuts] Datum ts2100 gps error code 41: New clone ace III

2014-07-26 Thread Hal Murray
normanliz...@gmail.com said: Turns out that the original receiver was a svee6. Let me know if you want a real SVee6. I've got 2 left. :) --- I also have a pair of small boards that I don't have any info on. PCB says Trimble, 39818-00-C. The 00 is written in by hand. There is a big chip

Re: [time-nuts] GPS-III

2014-07-24 Thread Hal Murray
I think you can buy multi-frequency receivers. Remember GPS is not longer the only system. There are stelites from the US, Europe, Russia, China and Japan.Adding more more frequencies allows the receiver to detect multi path and makes it harder to jam but the timing is not greatly

Re: [time-nuts] Time in Phone System

2014-07-22 Thread Hal Murray
bro...@pacific.net said: I expect that there's date and time information being sent in the header of every phone call, maybe even before the first ring along with the Caller ID info. Wiki says CallerID is sent between the first and second ring, and includes the date and time.

Re: [time-nuts] temperature sensor

2014-07-21 Thread Hal Murray
docdai...@gmail.com said: Ice water and boiling water coupled with altitude will give you two points. Has anybody used a good thermometer to measure air pressure? How much does the measured temperature vary between just barely boiling and a good roiling boil? Or in various locations within

Re: [time-nuts] Diodes as temperature sensors

2014-07-20 Thread Hal Murray
alw.k...@gmail.com said: Apparently, the forward biased silicon diode was temperature sensitive enough that a small D.C. amplifier could drive a meter to read-out with reasonable accuracy. Well, maybe not accurate by Time-nut standards but close enough for its intended purpose. I think that

Re: [time-nuts] Optical Distribution of 1PPS and IRIG

2014-07-14 Thread Hal Murray
mafl...@theflynn.org said: I am working on a project where I need to transfer 1PPS approximately 120 meters between buildings.I cam borrow a pair of 62.5 fibers from IT/ telco to do so. Google for fiber IRIG gets plenty of hits. Raw PPS is a nasty case for fibers. You need some sort

Re: [time-nuts] Setting Windows XP clock.

2014-07-13 Thread Hal Murray
albertson.ch...@gmail.com said: 1) It is set to use an NTP server called time.windows.com to set the clock. 3) The above is working as well as it has ever worked. Nothing has changed at Microsoft's end. It may be more complicated than that. time.windows.com is a cname for

Re: [time-nuts] CW12-TIM

2014-07-12 Thread Hal Murray
edgecombe...@gmail.com said: I am needing a GPS source of precise time, in three flavours - 10MHz (or so), 1PPS, and ethernet NTP. In the beginning, the NTP will be most important, and as time goes on, I'll need the 1PPS signal. ... If a static CW12-TIM ethernet clock could be made, I would

Re: [time-nuts] Wanted: Ace III gps receiver for Datum TS 2100

2014-07-11 Thread Hal Murray
ja...@extremeoverclocking.com said: A while back I even tried an old SveeSix receiver and those work too in the TS2100. I have a couple of SveeSixs in case anybody ever needs one. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ time-nuts mailing

Re: [time-nuts] Time-nuts question on message size??? 119KB vs 165KB

2014-07-11 Thread Hal Murray
paulsw...@gmail.com said: Trying to keep the message and attachements below the 128KB limit. I send a 119KB message and it gets held as a 165KB message. Can someone help me to understand the difference please? My guess would be base64 encoding? For binary files, you only get 6 bits per

Re: [time-nuts] Interesting frequency standard project

2014-07-04 Thread Hal Murray
paulsw...@gmail.com said: The key to these systems is that the transmitters have very good references. In the US at least we have no requirement for that level of stability on the MW broadcasts. Though evidently some stations are quite good. I think I have a list some place have to re-look.

Re: [time-nuts] GPS and other low speed data via CAT5 wire

2014-07-03 Thread Hal Murray
albertson.ch...@gmail.com said: For GPS you need to also include the microseconds long pulse per second. I think it might by the very short duty cycle of the pulse that makes it hard to transmit using RS-232 style signaling. The problem with short PPS pulses is that some PCs don't catch

Re: [time-nuts] FASTRAX GPS

2014-07-02 Thread Hal Murray
To you and Hal who suggested it, is this unit suitable for outputing a1pps timing signal? Wouldn't the long serial option Hal suggestion mess that up, vs. using this method to put the Fastax as close as possible to a system which which would have the systems gpio and serial ports attached?

Re: [time-nuts] FASTRAX GPS

2014-07-02 Thread Hal Murray
albertson.ch...@gmail.com said: I tried using a long serial cable. Just because I had some 100 feet of cat-5 wire already installed. It did not work reliably I was using a MAX232 chip as a driver. Were you using it as 8 separate wires or 4 pairs? I'd expect RS-232 to work over 100 ft of

Re: [time-nuts] RE : Re: FASTRAX GPS

2014-07-02 Thread Hal Murray
jl.on...@free.fr said: AFAIK, the differential variant of RS-232 is RS-485. I'm not sure about the levels.  RS-422 is the basic version: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-422 RS-485 is the multipoint version. Interesting comment from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIA-485 The EIA once

Re: [time-nuts] FASTRAX GPS

2014-07-01 Thread Hal Murray
jwsm...@jwsss.com said: I want a long run because where I plan to use it is some distance from clear line of site. It's often easier to use a long serial cable rather than a long antenna cable. http://www.ebay.com/itm/321295751672 This one happens to be 5 meters long and is active. ...

Re: [time-nuts] wander and jitter measurements

2014-06-29 Thread Hal Murray
mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org said: If your PRS-10 runs at +750 ns on every pulse then it has a frequency offset of It took me a while to parse that correctly. In case anybody else is having the same problem, it works better for me if it says something like: If your PRS-10 offset gains

Re: [time-nuts] Loran, GPS, Lightning, Timing

2014-06-28 Thread Hal Murray
namic...@gmail.com said: Fibre optic would seem to be the answer for protection. Assuming I use fibers for the data, how do I safely get power to the other end? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ time-nuts mailing list --

Re: [time-nuts] GPS puck?

2014-06-27 Thread Hal Murray
t...@leapsecond.com said: Yes, I remember that I cut off the PS-2 connector before the UPS truck even left the neighborhood. You are then left with nice 0/+5/Tx/Rx wires, which is all you need for navigation and status. For 1PPS timing, in either the serial or USB version, unscrew the case

Re: [time-nuts] 58503A date code problem

2014-06-21 Thread Hal Murray
daniel.bu...@ieee.org said: I have a HP/Symm 58530A that has the correct time, but date keeps defaulting to 1994, Nov, 4 after GPS Lock. The pre-lock is 1996, so I do see a change when it locks, just to the wrong date.time is exactly correct and tracks. Any ideas? That looks like the

Re: [time-nuts] Caveats on Allan Deviation with ultra stable oscillators

2014-05-31 Thread Hal Murray
Always locate your DUTs physically orthogonal to each other. Unless you have 3 clocks. (and everybody knows what happens if you only have 2) From an old time-nuts message (Mar, 2009) Allied to this discussion is the Loomis effect, discovered by the American millionaire who had three

Re: [time-nuts] New tide gauge uses GPS signals to measure sea level change

2014-05-30 Thread Hal Murray
[Structure of Earth's core] jim...@earthlink.net said: Molten, but it's a composite material under a lot of pressure, so the transition between liquid and solid isn't like between ice and water. Think cold peanut butter. Seismic evidence is how they knew it was liquid in the first place.

Re: [time-nuts] New tide gauge uses GPS signals to measure sea level change

2014-05-28 Thread Hal Murray
thol...@woh.rr.com said: I'm not sure my Z3801 or any of my navigation receivers have the necessary resolution to see even 10 mm. In normal operation (post survey), a Z3801A knows the location and uses that to work out a better time and/or the time with fewer satellites. So you won't be

Re: [time-nuts] Beginner question - unexpected possible jitter in 1 PPS output of Motorola ONCORE UT+ module

2014-05-26 Thread Hal Murray
wb0...@yahoo.com said: I built a small CMOS divider connected to the UT+ 1 PPS output... What do you mean by CMOS? Old 4000 series parts or HC or ... ? Here's the problem: my counts vary significantly (+/- 1 or more) from cycle to cycle, which is much higher than expected based on 50 nS

Re: [time-nuts] jupiter-t tu60-d120 (maybe d125), pinguino and GPSDO

2014-05-20 Thread Hal Murray
Then I accidently touched the PPS wire to ground and fried the PPS output. A short (duration) short (connection) to ground is unlikely to kill the output buffer. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ time-nuts mailing list --

Re: [time-nuts] iTrax130

2014-05-18 Thread Hal Murray
We'd have to guess the correct binary command to pt it into NMEA mode One quick approach is to let gpsd try. It's very good at figuring out what sort of device you have. I normally use gpsmon. By default, it doesn't send anything, just listens while searching baud rates. The i

Re: [time-nuts] Can (will) a M12+T generate a negative sawtooth message ?

2014-05-18 Thread Hal Murray
The ref output is the minimal delay through the chip covering the input and output pad buffers. It will vary slightly with temperature and voltage. There are no negative delays in that sort of chip. It's just a bunch of gates/buffers with a carefully calibrated delay. (For a negative delay,

Re: [time-nuts] BeagleBone Black NTP server

2014-05-10 Thread Hal Murray
n...@lazygranch.com said: You have to wonder who made this executive decision to have the cape cover rather important pins. How often do you need the serial port after you get SSH working? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ time-nuts

Re: [time-nuts] The Problem with Time Timezones - Computerphile

2014-05-09 Thread Hal Murray
hol...@hotmail.com said: Ahh, but with Lady Heather you can specify the time zone offset (down to the second) and the when the daylight savings time switchovers occur. And from experience, I can tell you that the code to do it is a royal pain in the ass... not all that hard to do, but a

Re: [time-nuts] Need simple test command to verify connection to UT PLUS module

2014-05-04 Thread Hal Murray
wb0...@yahoo.com said: As I am not using windows, I cannot make use of application program there to test my interface. I do not wish to implement NTP on Linux as my eventual target is not Linux, it is just my initial test environment. You can use ntpd on Linux for initial testing. You can

Re: [time-nuts] Low cost GPS module for 100ns timestamping error

2014-05-02 Thread Hal Murray
tn...@toneh.demon.co.uk said: Can anyone point to figures for a typical non-TXCO low cost oscillator, 10 or 16MHz? In general, low cost oscillators make pretty good thermometers. I think you have a much better chance of getting good results if you are willing to post-process the data. I

Re: [time-nuts] Low cost GPS module for 100ns timestamping error

2014-05-02 Thread Hal Murray
tn...@toneh.demon.co.uk said: In general, low cost oscillators make pretty good thermometers. True, but it's short term stability that matters here - over 10s of seconds the temperature shouldn't change much - especially if a bit of insulation is used around the oscillator. Ballpark is 1

Re: [time-nuts] GPS antenna length correction

2014-04-28 Thread Hal Murray
br...@lloyd.com said: As I think about the geometry of satellite position and path length, it seems to me that, since the geometry is determined by the antenna position and not the receiver position, additional antenna cable introduces a fixed delay value and hence a fixed constant that gets

Re: [time-nuts] New timing receivers?

2014-04-27 Thread Hal Murray
j...@jtmiller.com said: I spent some time reading the uBlox-6 documentation. I found the TIM-TP ubx message and format. I see that there is also the ability to feed back to the uBlox-6 time shift info for the PPS in 1ns increments. Does it make sense to feed the TIM-TP info back this way to

Re: [time-nuts] Very slow freq. counter / event counter

2014-04-22 Thread Hal Murray
What are using high school labs to time motion physics experiments? Video cameras. There are LED gadgets that blink fast enough to work well for that sort of thing. www.exploratorium.edu/baseball/ScienceOfBaseballTour.pdf -- These are my opinions. I hate spam.

Re: [time-nuts] NTP and Oncore UT+

2014-04-20 Thread Hal Murray
b...@evoria.net said: The reference pages indicate that a PPS interface is required. Most times when somebody says that PPS is required, they leave off the for decent timekeeping. I don't have a UT+, but I'd be very surprised if NTP didn't work without PPS. You can add noselect to the

Re: [time-nuts] Measuring the accurcy of a wrist watch

2014-04-18 Thread Hal Murray
i...@blackmountainforge.com said: My concern is that the moving balance wheel could have an eddy current induced into it and the resulting magnetic field might cause it to slow down. If that's a problem, it should be possible to measure it. That assumes the pickup works when near but not

Re: [time-nuts] Very slow freq. counter / event counter

2014-04-18 Thread Hal Murray
erm1ea...@ermione.com said: In the lab, I would like to have an event counter that can double as frequency/period counter, with maximum clock rate in the order of the tens of Hz or so, better with TIC function (aka chronometer). Resolution need not be better than 1/100s, counts to , but

Re: [time-nuts] First success with very simple, very low cost GPSDO

2014-04-11 Thread Hal Murray
csteinm...@yandex.com said: (Note that a 256 cycles per second error is 51 PPM at 5 MHz.) You need a bit for the sign. That leaves only 25.6 PPM error from nominal, 51.2 peak-peak. Half that at 10 MHz. In the real world, you should be able to trust that any oscillator that is chosen

Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO Crystal Aging

2014-04-11 Thread Hal Murray
rich...@karlquist.com said: Still, there was no way to guarantee that a crystal in the future would never have a jump or sudden change in aging. What was really needed was an ensemble of oscillators, but that was not economically competitive with rubidium. How many would you need? Is 3

Re: [time-nuts] ARM boards for low-cost GPSDOs

2014-04-11 Thread Hal Murray
dho...@gmail.com said: The 32F4 (like lots of similar ARMs) uses a PLL to generate the internal clocks from much lower frequency clock or crystal. Has anyone quantified the stability of the synthesised clock? I'm not familiar with the 32F4, but most of the SOC type ARM chips have ways to

Re: [time-nuts] First success with very simple GPSDO

2014-04-11 Thread Hal Murray
albertson.ch...@gmail.com said: 2) then switch to a mode where we look only at the last few bits of the counter. I think this will actually perform better than mode #1 above because there is zero chance of the two interrupts happening at the same time causing your PPS sample to be delayed

Re: [time-nuts] Frequency of LC Tank.

2014-04-11 Thread Hal Murray
I have a large LC tank, with a very lossy inductor. ... So the question is, when actively driving a tank circuit, how do you know you are driving it with the same frequency ad the same phase it naturally oscillates at. If it's lossy, the peak will be broad so tuning the driving frequency

Re: [time-nuts] Yet another Arduino-based GPSDO

2014-04-11 Thread Hal Murray
albertson.ch...@gmail.com said: My plan was to eventually fix this in software. Using ultra precision resisters is not a good fix. I'm using normal 5% 1/4W resisters. I don't think I will get stuck. if a step is to small it will simply move up the next DAC value. The I term in the PID

Re: [time-nuts] First success with very simple, very low cost GPSDO, under $8

2014-04-10 Thread Hal Murray
t...@leapsecond.com said: You only need enough bits to cover the worst case OCXO frequency drift or the worst case GPS jitter error, per second. For example, if your OCXO stays accurate to 1 ppm it can't possibly drift more than 1 us per second. Similarly, it's a safe assumption that your GPS

Re: [time-nuts] First success with very simple, very low cost GPSDO, under $8

2014-04-10 Thread Hal Murray
But I still need to count all the cycles in the second and can't just let a 8 or 16 bit counter run free. The reason is I don't know where the overflow happens. Overflow is not in sync with PPS. OK this might work. I hope it does as it would allow a bit of code to be removed. Let's

Re: [time-nuts] First success with very simple, very low cost GPSDO

2014-04-10 Thread Hal Murray
kd0...@mninter.net said: I should have said warm start, not cold. I was referring to the code, not the oscillator. So tell me, the OCXO is warm, there's no previous EFC information to draw upon, and the oscillator is off-frequency by more than can be measured with, let's say eight timer bits.

Re: [time-nuts] First success with very simple, very low cost GPSDO

2014-04-10 Thread Hal Murray
kd0...@mninter.net said: Precisely my point. My oscillator's tuning range and the timer frequency and the sampling interval dictated the minimum number of timer bits needed. In my case, as I recall, eight was not enough. Once locked, yes, but not initially. I googled for TCXO tuning-range

[time-nuts] ARM boards for low-cost GPSDOs

2014-04-10 Thread Hal Murray
Does anybody have a favorite low-cost ARM board? I'm looking for a simple Arduino like setup rather than something that runs Linux. The idea is to get 32 bit counters so a bunch of the recent discussion can be ingnored. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam.

Re: [time-nuts] First success with very simple, very low cost GPSDO, under $8

2014-04-09 Thread Hal Murray
hol...@hotmail.com said: I'm not sure how the Arduino environment handles interrupts, but in C you need to declare any variables altered by an interrupt as volatile so that the compiler optimization routines know not to assume they contain known values. Good point. Also any code that

Re: [time-nuts] First success with very simple, very low cost GPSDO, under $8

2014-04-09 Thread Hal Murray
Actaully I don't care much about an off by one count because the problem is corrected in the next second. If I happen to miss a count one second the very next second this shows up as an extra count.I notice that something like this happens every few hundred seconds. I think you can

Re: [time-nuts] First success with very simple, very low cost GPSDO, under $8

2014-04-09 Thread Hal Murray
But I think you over looked one point that makes this project easier: We KNOW 100% for certain that the interrupts happen only once per second. So the foreground code knows for certain it has exclusive access to shared variables for a given period of time. There is zero chance of a problem

[time-nuts] Clock quality: alternatives to ADEV

2014-04-09 Thread Hal Murray
I've been watching the discussions and graphs for a while. ADEV seems appropriate for cases where the noise pattern is nice. How does ADEV work if the noise isn't nice? Are there alternatives? What's the mathematical term for the type of noise that works well with ADEV? I can think of 3

Re: [time-nuts] Another Arduino GPSDO

2014-03-28 Thread Hal Murray
[Nice description. Thanks.] wd6...@gmail.com said: I'm sure the short-term stability isn't as good as a PLL, but averaging the errors over such a long period does have the advantage of making the sawtooth error pretty much irrelevant. You don't believe in hanging bridges? What do you mean

Re: [time-nuts] Another Arduino GPSDO

2014-03-28 Thread Hal Murray
wd6...@gmail.com said: I'm sorry, I don't recognize the reference to hanging bridges. I guess it was a good thing I mentioned it. Sometimes I feel like a broken record. It gets discussed here occasionally. There will be lots of comments in the archives. Starter version: tvb: Motorola

Re: [time-nuts] GPS-18x behaving weirdly

2014-03-27 Thread Hal Murray
jim...@earthlink.net said: Has anyone seen a similar behavior? I've tried the power cycling, and the Garmin reset command. I've not done the clear non-volatile memory which makes it forget the almanac. I had one GPS-18x LVC go insane. I don't remember the details. I think it didn't

Re: [time-nuts] NTP and Windows 7

2014-03-27 Thread Hal Murray
martin.burni...@burnicki.net said: Please note under Windows you should configure all upstream servers with a line reading server aa.bb.cc.dd iburst minpoll 6 maxpoll 6 There are lots of times when reducing maxpoll is reasonable, but I think an unqualified suggestion is not appropriate.

Re: [time-nuts] Airraft Ping Timing

2014-03-25 Thread Hal Murray
n1...@dartmouth.edu said: I am surprised it took them this long. A number of satellite telemetry systems can use doppler as a matter of course for locating transmitters, such as Iridium and Argos. It's more complicated than just computing the Doppler. You also have to figure out what the

Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO simulation tool

2014-03-24 Thread Hal Murray
mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org said: I did a temporary hack on the PID code to convert the D-term into I^2 term, by integrating the integrator output. First attempt was indeed quite resonant just to show that I was in the unsafe region. Backing down on the strength of the component sure did

Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO control system

2014-03-24 Thread Hal Murray
Does anybody have data on the drift of Rs or Cs? Rule of thumb: ... Ah, thanks. But by Rs and Cs I meant plural or R/resistor and C/capacitor. I know they change a lot with temperature, but how much do they drift if the temperature is constant? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam.

Re: [time-nuts] Nav Receiver Sawtooth Correction?

2014-03-24 Thread Hal Murray
b...@evoria.net said: Thanks for the response.  I've got a UT+ in the parts box.  But that's not the problem I'm trying to solve.  I'm trying to make the best GPSDO that I can make using a nav receiver at the moment.  Call it an obsession if you like.  It's OK if I don't have corrections to

Re: [time-nuts] NIST time services

2014-03-24 Thread Hal Murray
albertson.ch...@gmail.com said: The assumption NTP makes is that you can judge the quality of a server by the variance (of jitter) in the time it reports. I think it's more complicated than that. I think it also includes the non-jitter part of the round trip time. NTP assumes the path is

Re: [time-nuts] NIST time services

2014-03-24 Thread Hal Murray
ja...@extremeoverclocking.com said: If there was some sort of feature in NTP (maybe there already is???), or even a separate program that could test a list of NTP servers to try and pick the lowest latency, I think that could have a positive benefit on better time transfer. The current

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