Re: [time-nuts] Any clock disturbances during the July 11solareclipse?

2010-07-15 Thread Jim Palfreyman
Getting back to the original question, I noticed no out-of-the ordinary change in the offset of the observatory's hydrogen maser to GPS. Attached is a graph. Note the GPS is an old TAC and plotted are five minute averages of ten second samples. The y axis is in microseconds and the x axis is days

[time-nuts] Handy iPhone app

2010-07-15 Thread Jim Palfreyman
Hi, just found a handy free iPhone app called Emerald Time. It uses ntp and visually shows the time to within 100 msec. I've videod the screen and compared it with a real clock and found the claim to be accurate. Certainly not up to nut standard, but for a mobile phone it's great. Jim Palfreyman

Re: [time-nuts] Handy iPhone app

2010-07-15 Thread Steve Rooke
On 15/07/2010, Jim Palfreyman jim77...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, just found a handy free iPhone app called Emerald Time. It uses ntp and visually shows the time to within 100 msec. I've videod the screen and compared it with a real clock and found the claim to be accurate. You know you can be

Re: [time-nuts] PICTIC Backend

2010-07-15 Thread Peter Vince
Hi Stanley, You might also like to consider BBC BASIC for Windows (http://www.rtrussell.co.uk/bbcwin/bbcwin.html), developed from the language written for the Acorn BBC Micro in the early 80's, the author, Richard Russell, is actively maintaining and enhancing it, and supports a Yahoo Group

Re: [time-nuts] PICTIC Backend

2010-07-15 Thread Bob Camp
Hi If Windows is the main target - Microsoft now is giving away several compilers for free. They all are quite capable and have no real limitations to them. The downside is that they are indeed Visual what ever based. Not much use on my Mac or on a Linux box. Bob On Jul 15, 2010, at 4:39

Re: [time-nuts] Handy iPhone app

2010-07-15 Thread Mark Gulbrandsen
 Now if only Apple would allow Emerald Time to correct the i-phone's internal clock we'd actually have something. By using Emerald Time my i-phone's internal clock has shown itself to be off by as much as 12.4 seconds. That no longer qualifies as a usable clock to me. If I am out somewhere and

Re: [time-nuts] Handy iPhone app

2010-07-15 Thread paul swed
Hate to say it. ATT is wrong and so are the rest of us. Its Apple time on Apple stuff thats the standard. You can have your own reference when you control a particular world. On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Bob Bownes bow...@gmail.com wrote: I put ntp on mine. :) On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at

Re: [time-nuts] GPS Timing Source -- looking at buying

2010-07-15 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 07/12/2010 02:15 PM, Bob Camp wrote: Hi The original post simply mentioned EBU. Thus the confusion. I think they mean SMPTE 12M LTC. VITC would also be possible, and not completely without its merrits, but I doubt it. AES has not cranked out any synchronisation specs beyond the DARS in

Re: [time-nuts] Handy iPhone app

2010-07-15 Thread Oz-in-DFW
On 7/15/2010 9:40 AM, Mark Gulbrandsen wrote: ... There is no way ATT would be 12.4 seconds off ... I used to work in the cell infra business. While it's less true today, there are still a number of operators that do not sync system clocks. The time supplied to users can be **minutes**

Re: [time-nuts] rapid startup GPSDO

2010-07-15 Thread Luis Cupido
(*) uW Radio ham application where you arrive on the top of the hill and switch all equipment on and can be making contacts minutes after having better than 1e-8(1e-9). that's precisely the sort of application I'm looking at.. Wheels stopped to on-the-air in 20 minutes. Then... Look no

[time-nuts] 74AC175PC Update

2010-07-15 Thread GandalfG8
Hi All The 74AC175PCs I ordered arrived today and I can now confirm they do have the correct part number and are manufactured by National Semiconductor, all look to be from the same batch. Over the next day or so I'll contact directly all those confirmed as being on my list with full

[time-nuts] might be 5060A extenders on the E

2010-07-15 Thread Pete Lancashire
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[time-nuts] Handy iPhone app

2010-07-15 Thread Peter Monta
Oz-in-DFW writes: ... There is no way ATT would be 12.4 seconds off ... I used to work in the cell infra business. While it's less true today, there are still a number of operators that do not sync system clocks. The time supplied to users can be **minutes** off. Most newer operational