Re: [time-nuts] Faster than light of a different type

2012-05-10 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 06:11:22PM -0700, Jim Lux wrote: I'm not so sure about that, in general. (the access to the public, not the tax funding).. A lot of universities have put badge readers on a lot of areas that one might think are totally public access. Now, they might be wide open

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Attila Kinali
On Wed, 09 May 2012 14:25:34 -0700 Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net wrote: Back to technical stuff... As a practical matter, is clock jitter or phase noise from a typical low cost crystal and decent board layout a significant problem in audio gear? How hard is it to measure? Depends

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread MailLists
Hearing tests showed the ability to discern jitter above a few hundred nanoseconds rms. http://amorgignitamorem.nl/Audio/Jitter/Detection%20threshold%20for%20distortions%20due%20to%20jitter%20on%20digital%20audio%2026_50.pdf Others claim the ability to detect jitter in the picoseconds range...

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 4fab74eb.1050...@medesign.ro, MailLists writes: Others claim the ability to detect jitter in the picoseconds range... It would be a conservative assumption that jitter in the range of tens-hundreds of picoseconds will be practically not discernible. We're probably talking about one

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Heinzmann, Stefan (ALC NetworX GmbH)
Hal Murray wrote: As a practical matter, is clock jitter or phase noise from a typical low cost crystal and decent board layout a significant problem in audio gear? How hard is it to measure? The answer depends a lot on the circumstances (as usual). If you refer to jitter effects on a

[time-nuts] Trimble Resolution SMT - good/bad/indifferent?

2012-05-10 Thread Mark Sims
As a GPS receiver (12 channel), it seems to be quite good. It is at least 6dB more sensitive than the Thunderbolt. You can also program the PPS output for PP2S (pulse per 2 seconds) ___ time-nuts mailing

[time-nuts] question about Thunderbolt geo acuracy

2012-05-10 Thread swingbyte
Hi all, Hope this isn't too chat roomy, however, I have need of a survey precise geolocation type gps. I was wondering if the precise timing abilities extend to its precision in position output? I have a thunderbolt and one of those conical white aerials from china and would like to know if

Re: [time-nuts] question about Thunderbolt geo acuracy

2012-05-10 Thread Rob Kimberley
How accurate do you need your height? Remember that height is the least accurate of GPS parameters due to the fact that you rarely have a GPS satellite directly overhead. Rob Kimberley -Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of

Re: [time-nuts] question about Thunderbolt geo acuracy

2012-05-10 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 05/10/2012 02:50 PM, swingbyte wrote: Hi all, Hope this isn't too chat roomy, however, I have need of a survey precise geolocation type gps. I was wondering if the precise timing abilities extend to its precision in position output? I have a thunderbolt and one of those conical white aerials

Re: [time-nuts] question about Thunderbolt geo acuracy

2012-05-10 Thread David
Not being able to receive signals from GPS satellites anywhere below the horizon is an even larger problem for vertical accuracy. On Thu, 10 May 2012 13:59:51 +0100, Rob Kimberley robkimber...@btinternet.com wrote: How accurate do you need your height? Remember that height is the least

Re: [time-nuts] question about Thunderbolt geo acuracy

2012-05-10 Thread Attila Kinali
On Thu, 10 May 2012 22:50:15 +1000 swingbyte swingb...@exemail.com.au wrote: Hope this isn't too chat roomy, however, I have need of a survey precise geolocation type gps. I was wondering if the precise timing abilities extend to its precision in position output? I have a thunderbolt and

Re: [time-nuts] question about Thunderbolt geo acuracy

2012-05-10 Thread Jim Lux
On 5/10/12 6:08 AM, Magnus Danielson wrote: On 05/10/2012 02:50 PM, swingbyte wrote: Hi all, Hope this isn't too chat roomy, however, I have need of a survey precise geolocation type gps. I was wondering if the precise timing abilities extend to its precision in position output? I have a

Re: [time-nuts] question about Thunderbolt geo acuracy

2012-05-10 Thread mike cook
A man with only one GPS Surveys from different receivers I have. All taken at the same height from prolonged surveys. WGS84 datum. Oncore UT+ A 207,62m Oncore UT+ B 209,24m Z3801A 180,72m Oncore VP A 229,95m TBolt 207.00m Le 10/05/2012

Re: [time-nuts] question about Thunderbolt geo acuracy

2012-05-10 Thread Jim Lux
On 5/10/12 6:42 AM, mike cook wrote: A man with only one GPS Surveys from different receivers I have. All taken at the same height from prolonged surveys. WGS84 datum. Oncore UT+ A 207,62m Oncore UT+ B 209,24m Z3801A 180,72m Oncore VP A 229,95m TBolt 207.00m That's a pretty big

Re: [time-nuts] question about Thunderbolt geo acuracy

2012-05-10 Thread mike cook
Le 10/05/2012 15:51, Jim Lux a écrit : On 5/10/12 6:42 AM, mike cook wrote: A man with only one GPS Surveys from different receivers I have. All taken at the same height from prolonged surveys. WGS84 datum. Oncore UT+ A 207,62m Oncore UT+ B 209,24m Z3801A 180,72m Oncore VP A 229,95m

[time-nuts] question about Thunderbolt geo acuracy

2012-05-10 Thread Arthur Dent
I've found significant altitude errors using a GPS and the following quotes found on the internet will explain why. From my experience of hiking in the mountains of New Hampshire an aneroid altimeter will vary with atmospheric pressure about 200 feet for a change of 0.2 of mercury so you have

Re: [time-nuts] question about Thunderbolt geo acuracy

2012-05-10 Thread bg
Hi Tim, The answer is NO. Even though decent accuracy can be had with long averaging. It was discussed a few years ago on this list. -- Björn Hi all, Hope this isn't too chat roomy, however, I have need of a survey precise geolocation type gps. I was wondering if the precise timing

Re: [time-nuts] question about Thunderbolt geo acuracy

2012-05-10 Thread Michael Perrett
Not for survey type accuracy (sub-meter, short measurement time). The average (over a 48 hour period) was pretty good (about 1.5 meters, RMS), but the reading over any 1 minute period can be off as much as 3-5 meters, satellite geometry dependent. I Have two units with good antennas, mounted

Re: [time-nuts] question about Thunderbolt geo acuracy

2012-05-10 Thread bg
Attilla, On Thu, 10 May 2012 22:50:15 +1000 swingbyte swingb...@exemail.com.au wrote: Hope this isn't too chat roomy, however, I have need of a survey precise geolocation type gps. I was wondering if the precise timing abilities extend to its precision in position output? I have a

Re: [time-nuts] Why 9,192,631,770 ??

2012-05-10 Thread Tom Van Baak
Thanks, all ...this thread has helped me a lot. It reinforces my beliefs of what a 'second' is ...what we were taught from day 1 in school: One solar day/86,400 (A 'solar' day being an earth solar day) Hi Don, This was true until the 1960's. Hopefully the school curriculum has been

Re: [time-nuts] question about Thunderbolt geo accuracy

2012-05-10 Thread Bob Camp
Hi Just how accurate do you need? The local survey company will get you to ~ 1 cm in roughly an hour with real survey gear. Bob -Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of swingbyte Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 8:50 AM To:

Re: [time-nuts] question about Thunderbolt geo acuracy

2012-05-10 Thread Chris Albertson
There is an error in your quoted text. The author must have though there was a difference between WGS84 and true sea level. No that is not true. If you paper map that you bought from US Gological Survey says WGS84 on it then THAT is the definition of sea level on that map. The altitudes of

Re: [time-nuts] question about Thunderbolt geo accuracy

2012-05-10 Thread Chris Albertson
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Bob Camp li...@rtty.us wrote: . Hi all, Hope this isn't too chat roomy, however, I have need of a survey precise geolocation type gps.  I was wondering if the precise timing abilities extend to its precision in position output?  I have a thunderbolt and one of

Re: [time-nuts] question about Thunderbolt geo acuracy

2012-05-10 Thread Attila Kinali
On Thu, 10 May 2012 17:01:48 +0200 b...@lysator.liu.se wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2012 22:50:15 +1000 swingbyte swingb...@exemail.com.au wrote: Hope this isn't too chat roomy, however, I have need of a survey precise geolocation type gps. I was wondering if the precise timing abilities

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Chris Albertson
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:57 AM, MailLists li...@medesign.ro wrote: Hearing tests showed the ability to discern jitter above a few hundred nanoseconds rms. http://amorgignitamorem.nl/Audio/Jitter/Detection%20threshold%20for%20distortions%20due%20to%20jitter%20on%20digital%20audio%2026_50.pdf

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread J. Forster
In fact, I do believe the paper is a voice of rationality in an ocean oh hype. Very expensive hype, promoted by shameless hucksters. -John === On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:57 AM, MailLists li...@medesign.ro wrote: Hearing tests showed the ability to discern jitter above a few hundred

[time-nuts] question about Thunderbolt geo acuracy

2012-05-10 Thread Arthur Dent
Chris Albertson albertson.chris at gmail.com There is an error in your quoted text.   The author must have though there was a difference between WGS84 and true sea level.   No that is not true.   If you paper map that you bought from US Gological Survey says WGS84 on it then THAT is the

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Heinzmann, Stefan (ALC NetworX GmbH)
Chris Albertson wrote: If we are to believe the above paper,then those guys who claim to hear pS jitter are wrong. Note that the jitter spectrum matters for its audibility. Ashihara et.al. used random jitter, and it is not very suprising that the sensitivity for random jitter is lower than

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Chris Albertson
I've alway have thought that if nanosecond level jitter is bad then breathing while listening must be really bad. If you inhale the path length from your ear to the speaker changes at the microsecond level. You'd think the resulting doppler shift would drive these audiophiles nuts. All that

Re: [time-nuts] question about Thunderbolt geo acuracy

2012-05-10 Thread Chris Albertson
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Arthur Dent golgarfrinc...@yahoo.com wrote: Chris Albertson albertson.chris at gmail.com   I'm not sure what point you're trying to make but it is a fact, as the OP pointed out, that there are differences between the empirical data of 'true elevation' and

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Tom Knox
Great dialog. The Time Nuts form can be very humbling and often has me questioning my own knowledge base. This thread is no exception. My take on the effect of jitter is when an d toA converter is reproducing a pure sine wave even a single point of slight jitter will show up in the FFT as

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Hal Murray
albertson.ch...@gmail.com said: I've alway have thought that if nanosecond level jitter is bad then breathing while listening must be really bad. If you inhale the path length from your ear to the speaker changes at the microsecond level. You'd think the resulting doppler shift would drive

Re: [time-nuts] question about Thunderbolt geo acuracy

2012-05-10 Thread Jim Lux
On 5/10/12 7:40 AM, Arthur Dent wrote: I've found significant altitude errors using a GPS and the following quotes found on the internet will explain why. From my experience of hiking in the mountains of New Hampshire an aneroid altimeter will vary with atmospheric pressure about 200 feet for a

Re: [time-nuts] Trimble Resolution SMT - good/bad/indifferent?

2012-05-10 Thread SAIDJACK
Hi Holrum, how do you re-configure the SMT unit? Using Trimble GPS studio? Thanks, Said In a message dated 5/9/2012 15:17:21 Pacific Daylight Time, hol...@hotmail.com writes: I have it running now. It turns out that the units from fluke.l come shipped with TEP format messages

Re: [time-nuts] question about Thunderbolt geo accuracy

2012-05-10 Thread Jim Lux
On 5/10/12 9:18 AM, Chris Albertson wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Bob Campli...@rtty.us wrote: . Hi all, Hope this isn't too chat roomy, however, I have need of a survey precise geolocation type gps. I was wondering if the precise timing abilities extend to its precision in position

Re: [time-nuts] Trimble Resolution SMT - good/bad/indifferent?

2012-05-10 Thread SAIDJACK
Ok, I figured out that the unit fluke.l sells is running firmware to emulate the Motrola M12+ receiver or similar. So WinOncore 12 does work, and I can get the following receiver ID: COPYRIGHT 2008 Trimble Navigation Ltd. SFTW P/N # SOFTWARE VER # 0.03.0 SOFTWARE REV # 00 SOFTWARE

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Dan Kemppainen
One interesting note however. Years ago we had a standard old 4040 ripple counter in our shop that displayed a low occurrence of jitter of several times it's input frequency period at it's lowest frequency output (Sort of what you are describing below). I wish I had the numbers handy, but the

Re: [time-nuts] question about Thunderbolt geo acuracy

2012-05-10 Thread Jim Lux
On 5/10/12 10:46 AM, Chris Albertson wrote: mean sea level is not meaningful any more. What shape is the ocean and what if you live in Kanas? How to extrapolate the ocean level to Kanas? The answer is to use a model of some kind mean sea level, these days, is a name for a particular

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Jim Lux
On 5/10/12 11:36 AM, Hal Murray wrote: albertson.ch...@gmail.com said: I've alway have thought that if nanosecond level jitter is bad then breathing while listening must be really bad. If you inhale the path length from your ear to the speaker changes at the microsecond level. You'd think

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Jim Lux
On 5/10/12 12:44 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Heinzmann, Stefan (ALC NetworX GmbH)stefan.heinzm...@alcnetworx.de wrote: Benjamin and Gannon, the first reference in Ashihara's paper, come to lower figures for sinusoidal jitter with carefully selected

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Dan Kemppainen
Don't forget the human mind can compensate for a lot of things. Think of how we can triangulate a sound source in realtime even with the included echos in a small room. The only thing that I can think of that messes with that system is a single tone setting up standing waves. It's impressive

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Chris Albertson
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Jim Lux jim...@earthlink.net wrote: On 5/10/12 12:44 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: powerline ripple on a signal going into a threshold detector that drive the sample clock would be a nice way to generate sinusoidal jitter. I can think of other ways to design a

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Hal Murray
Are there any real audio systems with sinusoidal jitter. I'd goes that it would all be random. I can see where I could build a system with that defect if I wanted to but are there any systems on the market like this? I could easily imagine jitter with a significant sinusoidal

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Hal Murray
d...@irtelemetrics.com said: One interesting note however. Years ago we had a standard old 4040 ripple counter in our shop that displayed a low occurrence of jitter of several times it's input frequency period at it's lowest frequency output (Sort of what you are describing below). I wish

[time-nuts] Trimble Resolution SMT - good/bad/indifferent?

2012-05-10 Thread Mark Sims
The receivers from fluke.l are the TEP version that emulates Motorola protocols by default. I used Trimble GPS Monitor V1.05 to set it for TSIP. Select the Initialize Menu, Detect Receiver, click TEP protocol button. It then found the receiver and offered to enable it for TSIP. Then

Re: [time-nuts] Trimble Resolution SMT - good/bad/indifferent?

2012-05-10 Thread Azelio Boriani
What's bad with the Motorola binary protocol? In my opinion it is superior to the NMEA one... On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:55 PM, saidj...@aol.com wrote: Ok, I figured out that the unit fluke.l sells is running firmware to emulate the Motrola M12+ receiver or similar. So WinOncore 12 does

Re: [time-nuts] question about Thunderbolt geo accuracy

2012-05-10 Thread mike cook
Le 10/05/2012 21:50, Jim Lux a écrit : On 5/10/12 9:18 AM, Chris Albertson wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Bob Campli...@rtty.us wrote: . Hi all, Hope this isn't too chat roomy, however, I have need of a survey precise geolocation type gps. I was wondering if the precise timing

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Attila Kinali
On Thu, 10 May 2012 19:25:33 +0200 Heinzmann, Stefan (ALC NetworX GmbH) stefan.heinzm...@alcnetworx.de wrote: Benjamin and Gannon, the first reference in Ashihara's paper, come to lower figures for sinusoidal jitter with carefully selected frequencies relative to the main signal, which is

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Attila Kinali
On Thu, 10 May 2012 11:36:40 -0700 Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net wrote: Heartbeats may be more interesting than breathing. Does anybody know of spectrum domain data? It should be possible to collect position info while also monitoring heartbeat and chest diameter and then crunch some

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Tom Van Baak
This audio thread had some interesting information; thank you. Now I welcome you to get back to the focus of the group; please. Thanks, /tvb p.s. If we need to start another mailing list that includes audio let me know; contact me off-line. ___

Re: [time-nuts] Trimble Resolution SMT - good/bad/indifferent?

2012-05-10 Thread SAIDJACK
The first problem is, I didn't even know that was the command set the unit had, the @@Cf looked familiar though. I wasted an hour trying to get the Trimble application to work, until I tried WinOncore12 and the unit responded. Can't use TeraTerm to send commands, and the user manual

Re: [time-nuts] Trimble Resolution SMT - good/bad/indifferent?

2012-05-10 Thread SAIDJACK
There is the problem: I used the Trimble GPS Studio application that was posted here yesterday, that does not support the TEP protocol.. Will try with GPS Monitor.. Is the TrimbleMon available somewhere safe on the web? Can't seem to find it with Google. I got it working with Oncore12,

[time-nuts] Trimble Resolution SMT - good/bad/indifferent?

2012-05-10 Thread Mark Sims
Why in the hell would anybody build a 50 channel receiver? At most you MIGHT see 12 usable GPS sats... I don't think that I've seen over 10. WAAS should be fairly useless for a timing receiver. Supposedly the Nortel NTGS50AA docs and support info (including GPSMONITOR were uploaded to the

Re: [time-nuts] Trimble Resolution SMT - good/bad/indifferent?

2012-05-10 Thread Tom Van Baak
Why in the hell would anybody build a 50 channel receiver? At most you MIGHT see 12 usable GPS sats... I don't think that I've seen over 10. WAAS should be fairly useless for a timing receiver. Or 216 channels (GPS L1/L2/L2C/L5; GLONASS L1/L2; Galileo E1/E5A):

Re: [time-nuts] Trimble Resolution SMT - good/bad/indifferent?

2012-05-10 Thread Said Jackson
Think Galileo, Waas, Glonass, and gps could give you more than 38 sats, over determination will give better results and much faster cold starts without almanac and assist. Waas helps a lot when you run on a Uav chasing bad guys, think timing under motion without position hold mode, so there are

Re: [time-nuts] Why 9,192,631,770 ??

2012-05-10 Thread Peter Monta
Are there better estimates of the ET second nowadays (relative to the SI second)? It would be interesting to know what the cesium frequency should have been if much better estimates of the ephemeris-time second were available at the time. One would think that with all the solar-system data JPL