[time-nuts] Xtendwave Everset chips update

2014-07-02 Thread paul swed
Emailed Pete at Everset about the ES100 and 200 chips and unfortunately only chip dies are available. I am good but not that good. He suggests that someday a vendor will be selling a clock and thats the only reasonable option that will be available. All in all completely unattractive, as someone

Re: [time-nuts] Xtendwave Everset chips update

2014-07-02 Thread Bob Camp
Hi If you want to go a bit crazy, there are places that will package up die for you. Depending on the resulting package, cost is in the $0.30 to $20 per part range. Most of the places will hit you with a ~ $500 setup charge and are unlikely to deal in less than 1,000 piece lots (unless things

Re: [time-nuts] Xtendwave Everset chips update

2014-07-02 Thread paul swed
Bob Funny you mention that. I actually have a remote chance of actually doing that. I know a guy who knows a guy... I really don't want to get tangled in that total distraction actually. The value of the chip in at least a predictive wwvb d-psk-r is that you could easily obtain the nasty DST data.

Re: [time-nuts] Xtendwave Everset chips update

2014-07-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message cad2jfahocx5nyhmzjgrgwb4oljawumvwm7fvocym_y6agaa...@mail.gmail.com, paul swed writes: Though if the clocks are in the $20 range thats a different discussion. Somehow I suspect its the $1000 range. No honest clue though. In europe a Swiss company put a weather-transmission on DCF77

Re: [time-nuts] Xtendwave Everset chips update

2014-07-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 23298.1404324...@critter.freebsd.dk, Poul-Henning Kamp writes: In message cad2jfahocx5nyhmzjgrgwb4oljawumvwm7fvocym_y6agaa...@mail.gmail.com, paul swed writes: Though if the clocks are in the $20 range thats a different discussion. Somehow I suspect its the $1000 range. No honest