Re: [time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week

2006-12-11 Thread Magnus Danielson
From: Tom Clark, K3IO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 22:31:41 -0500 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom, FYI -- the slides from Rick my paper entitled Improving the Performance of Low Cost GPS Timing Receivers presented

Re: [time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week

2006-12-11 Thread Rick Hambly \(W2GPS\)
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard H McCorkle Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 2:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week Am I the only one who can't find the PTTI_2006.pdf file at the address listed

Re: [time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week

2006-12-11 Thread Tom Clark, K3IO
Magnus Danielson wrote: FYI -- the slides from Rick my paper entitled Improving the Performance of Low Cost GPS Timing Receivers presented at PTTI are now available at [1][1]http://gpstime.com/ as[2] [2]ftp://ftp.cnssys.com/pub/PTTI/PTTI_2006.pdf and That one is not there!!!

Re: [time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week

2006-12-11 Thread SAIDJACK
Hi Tom, how many M12M iLotus samples did you test to find the one with 30ns offset? Were these pre-production samples or mass production units? How did the other ones perform? Seems iLotus may not test/calibrate/inspect as thoroughly as Motorola did? Thanks, Said

Re: [time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week

2006-12-11 Thread Tom Clark, K3IO
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tom, how many M12M iLotus samples did you test to find the one with 30ns offset? Were these pre-production samples or mass production units? How did the other ones perform? Seems iLotus may not test/calibrate/inspect as thoroughly as

Re: [time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week

2006-12-10 Thread Richard H McCorkle
PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week FYI -- the slides from Rick my paper entitled Improving the Performance of Low Cost GPS Timing Receivers presented at PTTI are now available at [1]http://gpstime.com/ as[2] ftp://ftp.cnssys.com/pub/PTTI/PTTI_2006.pdf

Re: [time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week

2006-12-09 Thread Hal Murray
Neat writeup. Thanks. The change in altitude caused a frequency shift that, when totaled for 3 days, amounted to a clock offset of ~22 nsec with respect to his at home clock bank What's the calculated value? Lassen isn't very high. Are the campgrounds higher than Denver/Boulder? For

Re: [time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week

2006-12-09 Thread Tom Van Baak
Hal, What's the calculated value? Lassen isn't very high. Are the campgrounds higher than Denver/Boulder? It was Mt Rainier, near here in Seattle, WA. We went up to the 5400' level where the clocks ran on the order of 500 ps/hour faster than at my home lab at 1000'. We stayed up there about

Re: [time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week

2006-12-09 Thread Robert Lutwak
] To: 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement' time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 11:11 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week Ah, yes, the C field. A change in magnetic field can change the clock frequency. Parts in 1e-14 are exceedingly

Re: [time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week

2006-12-09 Thread Magnus Danielson
From: Tom Van Baak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 07:43:41 -0800 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hal, Tom, What's the calculated value? Lassen isn't very high. Are the campgrounds higher than Denver/Boulder? It was Mt

Re: [time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week

2006-12-09 Thread Magnus Danielson
From: Bill Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 10:11:05 -0600 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ah, yes, the C field. A change in magnetic field can change the clock frequency. Parts in 1e-14 are exceedingly small. If you run

Re: [time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week

2006-12-09 Thread John Miles
I second the request for public release off these slides! (pounds shoe on podium) I've got plenty of hosting space, if that would help at all. -- john, KE5FX What's the calculated value? Lassen isn't very high. Are the campgrounds higher than Denver/Boulder? It was Mt Rainier, near

Re: [time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week

2006-12-09 Thread bg
On Sat, December 9, 2006 17:52, Magnus Danielson said: Remember that while you are 1340 meters up, the mountains gravity pull creates a local compensation to a small degree, so you will not fully experience the full altitude difference. Would that mountaing gravity pulling be accounted for

Re: [time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week

2006-12-09 Thread Tom Van Baak
I greatly enjoyed measuring the Rabi-Ramsey separations on my Cs beam by inserting my own 12.6 MHz signal which I swept with my network analyzer. I then modulated the detected level through a double-balanced mixer with 12.6 MHz signal and tossed that in on the measurement port. Then I actually

Re: [time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week

2006-12-09 Thread John Miles
It is surprisingly hard to get a straight answer about what happens to g on a mountain (http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/phy00/phy00905.htm). I guess it's in the paper, but what source(s) did you use to arrive at the 1.5E-13 figure? It might be interesting to take another expedition of the

Re: [time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week

2006-12-09 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Miles writes: It is surprisingly hard to get a straight answer about what happens to g on a mountain (http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/phy00/phy00905.htm). Theres no way to accurately predict g, only measurements will do if you want precision, but a first

Re: [time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week

2006-12-09 Thread Tom Van Baak
Remember that while you are 1340 meters up, the mountains gravity pull creates a local compensation to a small degree, so you will not fully experience the full altitude difference. Magnus, Yes, I considered this but found the compensation was several orders of magnitude below the numbers I

Re: [time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week

2006-12-09 Thread Tom Van Baak
Theres no way to accurately predict g, only measurements will do if you want precision, but a first order aproximation can be derived from a topological representation and rudimentary knowledge of the geology. PHK, I think a first-order value comes simply from the mass and radius of the

Re: [time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week

2006-12-09 Thread John Miles
Ah, that makes sense... g=G*M/(r^2), so a small change in radius (elevation) matters a lot more than the small change in mass underfoot. It's back to junior-high physics for me... -- john, KE5FX Remember that while you are 1340 meters up, the mountains gravity pull creates a local

Re: [time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week

2006-12-09 Thread Magnus Danielson
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 20:08:04 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, December 9, 2006 17:52, Magnus Danielson said: Remember that while you are 1340 meters up, the mountains gravity pull creates

Re: [time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week

2006-12-09 Thread Didier Juges
Don't do that over my house :-) Didier Tom Van Baak wrote: Yes, and instead of dropping sand to keep aloft over time I could drop the lead acid batteries as I use them up! /tvb ___ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com

Re: [time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week

2006-12-09 Thread Magnus Danielson
From: Didier Juges [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 17:41:28 -0600 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't do that over my house :-) I too prefer the sand. Besides, he would loose weight by the emptying of batteries, exhailing

Re: [time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week

2006-12-09 Thread JayHolovacs
I remember a brief interview with a person who coordinates G info for the military. They have detailed maps of g effects around the world (useful for targetting missiles, apparently) but the work is classified. jay John Miles wrote: It is surprisingly hard to get a straight answer about what

Re: [time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week

2006-12-09 Thread Jack Hudler
time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week Don't do that over my house :-) Didier Tom Van Baak wrote: Yes, and instead of dropping sand to keep aloft over time I could drop the lead acid batteries as I use them up! /tvb

[time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week

2006-12-08 Thread Tom Clark, K3IO
This past week, a number of use gathered in Reston, VA for the 38th annual PTTI (Precision Time Time Interval) meeting (see http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ptti/ptti2006/ptti2006.html). The attendance list included Tom van Baak (no call, but known to the world as TvB, Seattle) Jim Jaeger(K8RQ,