Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-17 Thread SAIDJACK
In a message dated 7/16/2007 22:26:14 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a military OCXO sample (new product) that is supposed to be g-insensitive and even that one has about E-09 frequency shift per 90 degrees tilt. ... and you have not put a GPS diciplining

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-17 Thread Tom Van Baak
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I guess that is why some GPS antenna cables is temperature-stabilized as well as the cement-pidestal for the GPS antenna as it stands on solid rock. The same place have controlled environment for the cesiums and hydrogens,

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-17 Thread Tom Van Baak
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes it can make sense. Place one Cs clock in a chamber where the ambient temperature can be adjusted to various fixed temperatures. Compare the phase of its 5/10MHz and/or PPS outputs with respect to those of another Cs

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-17 Thread Tom Van Baak
In the article OBSERVATIONS ON STABILITY MEASUREMENTS OF COMMERCIAL ATOMIC CLOCKS, Pekka Eskelinen claims to have measured a phase temperature coefficient of 100ns/degree for commercial Cs clocks in 1999. Something is wrong with that claim. There's no way a modern cesium standard exhibits a

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-17 Thread Magnus Danielson
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Tom Van Baak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:21:37 -0700 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I guess that is why

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-17 Thread Magnus Danielson
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Tom Van Baak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:40:49 -0700 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the article

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-17 Thread Hal Murray
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not sure I follow this. Yes, you will see a phase shift but how can you tell how much of said shift is due to a fixed phase shift (as if it were cable phase tempco) vs. how much is due to phase shift due to frequency offset

Re: [time-nuts] Exact Rubidium frequency

2007-07-17 Thread Tom Van Baak
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Peter, Do you like the way the NIST page looks now? http://tf.nist.gov/general/enc-re.htm#resonancefrequency http://tf.nist.gov/general/enc-re.htm#rubidiumoscillator /tvb Thank you all for your replies. It still begs the

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-17 Thread Didier Juges
Or see a failed TIC test which actually displayed the delay in a piece of coax showing the temperature in the room as the air conditioning was turning on and off over night. http://www.ko4bb.com/Test_Equipment/data/HP5370A coax cable delay.png I did not calibrate this thermometer though :-)

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-17 Thread Björn Gabrielsson
Achieved: Acceleration sensitivities better than 2E-12/g http://www.zyfer.com/briefings/telecom/qz%20low-g%20brfg%20olie%204-04.pdf -- Björn On Tue, July 17, 2007 14:40, Rob Kimberley said: Another way that has been incorporated successfully to combat g sensitivity are accelerometers

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-17 Thread Rob Kimberley
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I guess I'm a bit out of date! :-) Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Björn Gabrielsson Sent: 17 July 2007 14:13 To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-17 Thread Magnus Danielson
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Dr Bruce Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:30:03 +1200 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Van Baak

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-17 Thread M. Warner Losh
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Van Baak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : ); SAEximRunCond expanded to false : Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : In the article OBSERVATIONS ON STABILITY MEASUREMENTS : OF COMMERCIAL ATOMIC

[time-nuts] HP-3336A - High Precision Attenuator

2007-07-17 Thread Tom Clifton
Greg Burnett hit the nail on the head. It is a machined base with four solenoids. I'm a bit hesitant to start taking screws out of it as I'm not sure what holds what together... Though if it is dead, what additional harm can I do... Any waym the assembly seems to have an HP part number of 1979a

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-17 Thread Richard \(Rick\) Karlquist
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In case anyone still doesn't know who I am, I need to mention that I designed the RF electronics in the 5071A in an earlier life, circa 1990. Now that we have that out of the way, I will agree with Magnus that the cited paper is

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-17 Thread Magnus Danielson
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Richard \(Rick\) Karlquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:52:22 -0700 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rick, In case anyone still doesn't know who I am, I need to mention that

Re: [time-nuts] Exact Rubidium frequency

2007-07-17 Thread Peter Vince
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Tom, I'd not had a reply from NIST, so was about to write to a contact there. Have they just quietly done it, or did you nudge someone? Anyway, yes, thank you, the table gives the 610.904 figure from the French

[time-nuts] Oncore VP problem

2007-07-17 Thread GandalfG8
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi All I'm trying to set up a supposedly NOS GPS development kit, similar to the old Motorola evalution kit, with an Oncore VP mounted on an interface board fitted with a 5 volt regulator and MAX232 interface chip. Running

Re: [time-nuts] HP-3336A - High Precision Attenuator

2007-07-17 Thread Rex
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:42:56 -0700 (PDT), Tom Clifton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Burnett hit the nail on the head. It is a machined base with four solenoids. I'm a bit hesitant to start taking screws out of it as I'm not sure

Re: [time-nuts] Exact Rubidium frequency

2007-07-17 Thread Magnus Danielson
From: Peter Vince [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Exact Rubidium frequency Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:45:08 +0100 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Tom, I'd not had a reply from NIST, so was about to write

Re: [time-nuts] Oncore VP problem

2007-07-17 Thread GandalfG8
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 17/07/2007 23:09:36 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You should be able to restart the VP with the @@Cg command in the Additional Message Window in WinOncore12. The total command string is:

[time-nuts] HP5532A for free

2007-07-17 Thread SAIDJACK
Hi guys, I have a nice old Dixie tube HP5532A counter to give away that I picked up at a local recycling store. It powers up, and I can coax it to count. It needs a little cleaning, and some love. I figure someone collecting these would have good use for it. The first responder to this

Re: [time-nuts] HP5532A for free

2007-07-17 Thread SAIDJACK
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 7/17/2007 18:32:51 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: An old neon tube display for those South of the Mason-Dixon line? (vs. Nixie tube for those North.) Sorry, couldn't resist. As you can

Re: [time-nuts] HP5532A for free

2007-07-17 Thread Rex
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:47:30 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 7/17/2007 18:32:51 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: An old neon tube display for those South of the Mason-Dixon line? (vs. Nixie

Re: [time-nuts] HP5532A for free

2007-07-17 Thread Magnus Danielson
From: Rex [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] HP5532A for free Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:33:18 -0700 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:19:40 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dixie tube An old neon

Re: [time-nuts] HP5532A for free

2007-07-17 Thread John Miles
List member (presumably an unmarried one)? http://farm1.static.flickr.com/70/188117595_213c635851.jpg?v=0 -- john, KE5FX -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 7:15 PM To: time-nuts@febo.com

Re: [time-nuts] HP5532A for free

2007-07-17 Thread Magnus Danielson
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] HP5532A for free Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:20:32 EDT Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 7/17/2007

Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 36, Issue 30

2007-07-17 Thread Christopher Hoover
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a nice old Dixie tube HP5532A counter to give away that I picked up at a local recycling store. It powers up, and I can coax it to count. It needs a little cleaning, and some love. I figure someone collecting these would

Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 36, Issue 30

2007-07-17 Thread SAIDJACK
In a message dated 7/17/2007 20:37:33 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (Which store??) I'm interested. I'm in Los Gatos (Pollard Road). I can pick it up, but only through Friday of these week. List member (presumably an unmarried one)?