Re: [time-nuts] Sulzer Labs D-5 oscillator

2008-10-13 Thread Reeves Paul
employers apparently have several lawyers with nothing important to do regards, Paul G8GJA -Original Message- From: Tom Van Baak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 October 2008 15:17 To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Sulzer Labs

Re: [time-nuts] Sulzer Labs D-5 oscillator

2008-10-13 Thread Rex
Mike Monett wrote: Steve Rooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the obvious one is Thunderbird which will do all the things that I can see that Pimmy can do, given my albeit brief overview of this application from the parent website. I tried Thunderbird some time ago, but I

Re: [time-nuts] Sulzer Labs D-5 oscillator

2008-10-11 Thread Hal Murray
One of the advantages of top posting - you can reply to the message and ignore the rubbish at the bottom Did you forget the smiley? :) If the bottom is rubbish, why send it? Ignoring it only works if everybody knows that the convention is to only top-post and not insert anything in the

Re: [time-nuts] Sulzer Labs D-5 oscillator

2008-10-11 Thread Rob Kimberley
Of Hal Murray Sent: 11 October 2008 07:20 To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Sulzer Labs D-5 oscillator One of the advantages of top posting - you can reply to the message and ignore the rubbish at the bottom Did you forget the smiley

Re: [time-nuts] Sulzer Labs D-5 oscillator

2008-10-11 Thread Mike Monett
Rob Kimberley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The smiley (humour) was implied. I didn't mean any offence, but have been used to top posting, as business email (that's what I originally got my email for originally back in the mid 90's) was all (and still is) top

Re: [time-nuts] Sulzer Labs D-5 oscillator

2008-10-11 Thread Chuck Harris
Mike Monett wrote: Steve Rooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or you can use Linux and not worry about any of this :) And I personally think that Rob has been unfairly taken to task over a comment about the verbiage added to emails sent from some corporate systems which add

Re: [time-nuts] Sulzer Labs D-5 oscillator

2008-10-11 Thread WB6BNQ
Mike Monett wrote: There is a very big difference between a business email and a forum. A business email is usually between two people and concerns only one subject. The exchange is usually very short, perhaps a single question and a single

Re: [time-nuts] Sulzer Labs D-5 oscillator

2008-10-11 Thread Didier Juges
] Sulzer Labs D-5 oscillator This group seems pretty flexible about -- top -- mid -- or bottom -- posting. Don't see any reason to lecture this group about how they might want to communicate. I never paid attention about how it was being done, but it all seems to work here. I never can

Re: [time-nuts] Sulzer Labs D-5 oscillator

2008-10-11 Thread Steve Rooke
2008/10/11 Mike Monett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Rob Kimberley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The smiley (humour) was implied. I didn't mean any offence, but have been used to top posting, as business email (that's what I originally got my email for originally back in the mid

Re: [time-nuts] Sulzer Labs D-5 oscillator

2008-10-11 Thread Rex
This group seems pretty flexible about -- top -- mid -- or bottom -- posting. Don't see any reason to lecture this group about how they might want to communicate. I never paid attention about how it was being done, but it all seems to work here. I never can remember having any thought about

Re: [time-nuts] Sulzer Labs D-5 oscillator

2008-10-11 Thread Mike Monett
Steve Rooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or you can use Linux and not worry about any of this :) And I personally think that Rob has been unfairly taken to task over a comment about the verbiage added to emails sent from some corporate systems which add huge disclaimers to the

Re: [time-nuts] Sulzer Labs D-5 oscillator

2008-10-11 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Rob Kimberley [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: It was only when I ventured into newsgroups that I came across bottom posting, which to me seemed totally illogical. I've read the pros of bottom posting (and the cons of top posting), but still can't get my head or my

Re: [time-nuts] Sulzer Labs D-5 oscillator

2008-10-11 Thread Didier Juges
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Rob Kimberley [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: It was only when I ventured into newsgroups that I came across bottom posting, which to me seemed totally illogical. I've read the pros of bottom posting (and the cons of top posting), but

Re: [time-nuts] Sulzer Labs D-5 oscillator

2008-10-11 Thread Rob Kimberley
Didier Juges wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Rob Kimberley [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: It was only when I ventured into newsgroups that I came across bottom posting, which to me seemed totally illogical. I've read the pros of bottom posting (and the cons of

Re: [time-nuts] Sulzer Labs D-5 oscillator

2008-10-11 Thread Rob Kimberley
Sanjeev Gupta wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Rob Kimberley [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: It was only when I ventured into newsgroups that I came across bottom posting, which to me seemed totally illogical. I've read the pros of bottom posting (and the cons of top posting), but still

Re: [time-nuts] Sulzer Labs D-5 oscillator

2008-10-11 Thread Tom Van Baak
Paul, Did you get what you needed? If the schematic at: http://www.leapsecond.com/museum/sul25-1/sul25bcl.gif isn't clear enough, let me know. I have a full set of Sulzer 2.5 and 5 manuals here somewhere. /tvb I need a bit of help getting an old Sulzer D-5 5MHz oscillator to work. It was

Re: [time-nuts] Sulzer Labs D-5 oscillator

2008-10-11 Thread Steve Rooke
Mike, I'm in the process of switching over to Ubuntu, and I already checked - Wine handles Pimmy. Whilst Wine is a very useful utility, I would only use it if there is an absolute need to run a Windows application whith no equivalent. If you are switching to Linux, you really would be

Re: [time-nuts] Sulzer Labs D-5 oscillator

2008-10-11 Thread Mike Monett
Steve Rooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike, I'm in the process of switching over to Ubuntu, and I already checked - Wine handles Pimmy. Whilst Wine is a very useful utility, I would only use it if there is an absolute need to run a Windows application whith no

Re: [time-nuts] Sulzer Labs D-5 oscillator

2008-10-11 Thread Steve Rooke
Hi Mike, 2008/10/12 Mike Monett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have been running Eagle pcb cad on Suse since 2001. I am extremely happy with linux. But LTspice requires Wine, Pimmy will run on it, and also Hotkeyz. This will tide me over until I can find replacements, but LTspice will

[time-nuts] Sulzer Labs D-5 oscillator

2008-10-10 Thread Reeves Paul
Hi all, I need a bit of help getting an old Sulzer D-5 5MHz oscillator to work. It was built into a rack module with monitoring facilities and had been slightly 'got-at' by the previous owner. Some of the connections were pencilled on the case but not enough to give confidence about powering it

Re: [time-nuts] Sulzer Labs D-5 oscillator

2008-10-10 Thread Rob Kimberley
Paul can you send me a photo of your oscillator? Cheers Rob Kimberley -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Rooke Sent: 10 October 2008 08:37 To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Sulzer Labs

Re: [time-nuts] Sulzer Labs D-5 oscillator

2008-10-10 Thread WB6BNQ
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Rooke Sent: 10 October 2008 08:37 To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Sulzer Labs D-5 oscillator 2008/10/10 Reeves Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I need a bit of help getting an old Sulzer D-5

Re: [time-nuts] Sulzer Labs D-5 oscillator

2008-10-10 Thread Tom Van Baak
Hi all, I need a bit of help getting an old Sulzer D-5 5MHz oscillator to work. It was built into a rack module with monitoring facilities and had been slightly 'got-at' by the previous owner. Some of the connections were pencilled on the case but not enough to give confidence about

Re: [time-nuts] Sulzer Labs D-5 oscillator

2008-10-10 Thread Rob Kimberley
measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Sulzer Labs D-5 oscillator 2008/10/10 Reeves Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I need a bit of help getting an old Sulzer D-5 5MHz oscillator to work. It was built into a rack module with monitoring facilities and had been slightly 'got