Re: [time-nuts] Odd ball Odetics - cleaning out garage...

2010-07-05 Thread Pete Lancashire
I just might keep one .. hmmm ... nah got to thin the herd ... nice to know other then interference an antenna is easy. thanks -pete On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net wrote: BTW will soon have half dozen Spectracom 8170's I want make go away as well. There

Re: [time-nuts] PICTIC II Programmed 16f688 chips

2010-07-05 Thread Arnold Tibus
Hello, for interested german users, Wolfgang, DL1GVW informed me offline, that he would program the Pics for them. You may contact him via DL1GVWatGMX.de directly. If needed I can provide his address. Together with EB4APL's offer, the programming of the Pics should not be problematic for european

Re: [time-nuts] DS-1 from 10MHz

2010-07-05 Thread J.D. Schoedel
Definitely a basement project. J.D. Bob Camp wrote: Hi A lot depends on weather this is a one off basement project or a commercial endeavor. If it's commercial, there are people who will sell you a packaged part that will do the 10 MHz to T1 conversion. Bob On Jul 4, 2010, at 10:38 PM, Hal

Re: [time-nuts] PICTIC II Programmed 16f688 chips

2010-07-05 Thread Bob Camp
Hi One thing to consider: If you Google PIC Programmer there are a number of hits for sub $20 gizmos that are everything you would ever need as the hardware is concerned. The programming software is a free download off the Microchip site. It runs on any and all Windows operating systems.

Re: [time-nuts] Nuts and Phoolery

2010-07-05 Thread jimlux
Steve Rooke wrote: On 5 July 2010 06:10, J. Forster j...@quik.com wrote: Why stop there? How about buying Russian Hydrogen MASERs and putting them in hand-rubbed old growth teak boxes and selling them for $995,000? They are pulling out 14,500 y/o kauri trees (hard wood) out of peat bogs over

[time-nuts] In Memoriam: Robert V Pound

2010-07-05 Thread J. Forster
Hi All, Sad news: - April 19, 2010 Robert Pound, Physicist Whose Work Advanced Medicine, Is Dead at 90 By JASCHA HOFFMAN Robert Pound, a Harvard physicist whose experiments provided the first laboratory confirmation of Einstein's general theory of relativity and helped pave the way for

[time-nuts] DS-1 from 10MHz

2010-07-05 Thread Tom Clifton
I'm running more than a few days late on mail, but my inclination would be to order a custom programmed SI5355 from Silicon Labs for $5 - no minimum quantity and 2 week turnaround.  Admittedly the part is a qfn (SMT Quad Flat-pack No-leads) but it is easy, can run off an external user provided