Re: [time-nuts] Low-long-term-drift clock for board level integration?

2012-02-20 Thread mike cook
Le 20/02/2012 07:18, Bill Woodcock a écrit : Murphy says we won't. Bell curve, again. A very few will have good symmetric paths to Stratum-1 servers, most will have mediocre asymmetric paths, and some will have nothing usable at all. Are you targeting homes, offices, or machine rooms? The

Re: [time-nuts] Low-long-term-drift clock for board levelintegration?

2012-02-20 Thread Tom Van Baak
I think a box that can't get some external source of time in three years is one that we can pretty well write off as lost. Thank you (several of you, actually) for the clear explanation of the math. http://www.msc-ge.com/en/news/pressroom/manu/1241-www/3567-www.html

Re: [time-nuts] Low-long-term-drift clock for board levelintegration?

2012-02-20 Thread Azelio Boriani
Yes, the relation frequency_drift- time_error seems difficult to figure out. I see this misunderstanding daily here at work and haven't yet found a way to explain to my colleagues. I have already used: integral, area, count accumulation but none worked. On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Tom Van

[time-nuts] Any spare switches for Racal-Dana 1992?

2012-02-20 Thread James Robbins
I'm wondering if anyone has any spare Racal-Dana 1992 switch mechanisms they would sell? The switches can be replaced from the front of the panel (as reported here) and what I really need is the small black rubber piece (circular pill shaped) with the little nipple which sits within the 4

Re: [time-nuts] Any spare switches for Racal-Dana 1992?

2012-02-20 Thread Charles P. Steinmetz
James wrote: I need two of these black rubber pills Speaking from extensive experience, if you need 2 now, plan on needing somewhere between 5 and 31 more over the next year or two. Best regards, Charles ___ time-nuts mailing list --

[time-nuts] OP-Amps for 10MHz distribution...?

2012-02-20 Thread Michael Baker
Hello, Time-Nutters-- Here is a link to a TI app note on using op-amps for RF. It occurred to me that this might work OK for distribution of the ref freq from a GPSDO... http://www.ti.com/lit/an/slyt102/slyt102.pdf Mike Baker ---

Re: [time-nuts] Low-long-term-drift clock for board level integration?

2012-02-20 Thread Achim Vollhardt
Hi Bill, what about White Rabbit? http://www.ohwr.org/projects/white-rabbit/wiki/Description Successor of NTP.. PTP: precision time protocol. It delivers Gigabit Ethernet and precise (1nsec) timing over singlemode fiber. You would have to connect all devices into a fiber network instead of a

Re: [time-nuts] OP-Amps for 10MHz distribution...?

2012-02-20 Thread paul swed
Op amps have been used for quite a while. I have used buffer amps called lh003s preceded by a opamp (that I do not recal)to create a 2 X gain. They were power hungry. It looks like these have very wide bandwidth. You really do not need that wide of a bandwidth. Maybe 20 Mhz for a 10 Mhz ref. Good

Re: [time-nuts] OP-Amps for 10MHz distribution...?

2012-02-20 Thread Attila Kinali
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:28:01 -0500 Michael Baker mp...@clanbaker.org wrote: Here is a link to a TI app note on using op-amps for RF. It occurred to me that this might work OK for distribution of the ref freq from a GPSDO... http://www.ti.com/lit/an/slyt102/slyt102.pdf Depends on what you

Re: [time-nuts] Low-long-term-drift clock for board level integration?

2012-02-20 Thread Jim Lux
On 2/20/12 8:34 AM, Achim Vollhardt wrote: Hi Bill, what about White Rabbit? http://www.ohwr.org/projects/white-rabbit/wiki/Description Successor of NTP.. PTP: precision time protocol. It delivers Gigabit Ethernet and precise (1nsec) timing over singlemode fiber. You would have to connect all

[time-nuts] How best to exchange Large files?

2012-02-20 Thread WarrenS
Recording high speed and/or long general purpose raw Osc data, the file can become very large. I'm looking for a simple, fast and easy (and cheap) way to transfer large compressed data files of up to say a 100 MB between time-nuts. I know there are all kinds places one can store large files

Re: [time-nuts] How best to exchange Large files?

2012-02-20 Thread Marco IK1ODO -2
At 04:07 21-02-12, you wrote: Recording high speed and/or long general purpose raw Osc data, the file can become very large. I'm looking for a simple, fast and easy (and cheap) way to transfer large compressed data files of up to say a 100 MB between time-nuts. I know there are all kinds

Re: [time-nuts] How best to exchange Large files?

2012-02-20 Thread Jim Lux
On 2/20/12 9:52 AM, WarrenS wrote: Recording high speed and/or long general purpose raw Osc data, the file can become very large. I'm looking for a simple, fast and easy (and cheap) way to transfer large compressed data files of up to say a 100 MB between time-nuts. I know there are all kinds

Re: [time-nuts] Low-long-term-drift clock for board level integration?

2012-02-20 Thread Bob Camp
Hi Simple answer: A rack mount cesium standard is as good as you can get. Figure on 15 ns per day of drift. That gets you to 15 us in 1000 days. You may or may not get one that drifts that little, a lot depends on little details. For 3 years, consider an ensemble of cesiums. At $50K each

Re: [time-nuts] How best to exchange Large files?

2012-02-20 Thread Attila Kinali
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:52:39 -0800 WarrenS warrensjmail-...@yahoo.com wrote: Recording high speed and/or long general purpose raw Osc data, the file can become very large. I'm looking for a simple, fast and easy (and cheap) way to transfer large compressed data files of up to say a 100 MB

Re: [time-nuts] How best to exchange Large files?

2012-02-20 Thread shalimr9
You can always upload them to my site as if it was a manual (follow the manual upload instructions). If you let me know in a comment, I will leave the file in the upload area where anyone can retrieve it via ftp. Didier KO4BB Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless thingy while I do other things...

Re: [time-nuts] How best to exchange Large files?

2012-02-20 Thread David
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:41:31 +0100, Attila Kinali att...@kinali.ch wrote: On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:52:39 -0800 WarrenS warrensjmail-...@yahoo.com wrote: Recording high speed and/or long general purpose raw Osc data, the file can become very large. I'm looking for a simple, fast and easy (and

Re: [time-nuts] Low-long-term-drift clock for board level integration?

2012-02-20 Thread Jim Lux
On 2/20/12 10:31 AM, Bob Camp wrote: Hi Simple answer: A rack mount cesium standard is as good as you can get. Figure on 15 ns per day of drift. That gets you to 15 us in 1000 days. You may or may not get one that drifts that little, a lot depends on little details. For 3 years, consider

Re: [time-nuts] How best to exchange Large files?

2012-02-20 Thread Chris Albertson
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 9:52 AM, WarrenS warrensjmail-...@yahoo.com wrote: Recording high speed and/or long general purpose raw Osc data, the file can become very large. I'm looking for a simple, fast and easy (and cheap) way to transfer large compressed data files of up to say a 100 MB

Re: [time-nuts] How best to exchange Large files?

2012-02-20 Thread Bob Smither
WarrenS wrote: Recording high speed and/or long general purpose raw Osc data, the file can become very large. I'm looking for a simple, fast and easy (and cheap) way to transfer large compressed data files of up to say a 100 MB between time-nuts. I know there are all kinds places one can

Re: [time-nuts] Low-long-term-drift clock for board level integration?

2012-02-20 Thread Rob Kimberley
I've looked at the posts on this topic, and from what I've seen so far I think is going to be a tough if not impossible call. 30 minutes to get GPS is OK, but what about the oscillator? It will need a lot longer than that to stabilise. You also then have the vagaries of the network. NTP won't

Re: [time-nuts] Low-long-term-drift clock for board level integration?

2012-02-20 Thread Chris Albertson
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:15 AM, mike cook michael.c...@sfr.fr wrote: Le 20/02/2012 07:18, Bill Woodcock a écrit : Murphy says we won't.  Bell curve, again.  A very few will have good symmetric paths to Stratum-1 servers, most will have mediocre asymmetric paths, and some will have nothing

Re: [time-nuts] Low-long-term-drift clock for board level integration?

2012-02-20 Thread Brooke Clarke
Hi Bill: When the TRANSIT navigation satellites were put in orbit the receivers required Cesium clocks. The system worked but was very expensive. The GPS system was designed so that cheap clocks could be used in the receiver. This requires getting a lock on 4 satellites instead of the 3 that

Re: [time-nuts] Low-long-term-drift clock for board level integration?

2012-02-20 Thread Hal Murray
You may be able to do a similar thing in your receivers. For example if the master node were to send a timing message at known times (say once at the top of every hour) the receivers could use that to determine their local clock offset and rate for those cases where the path was the same

Re: [time-nuts] Low-long-term-drift clock for board level integration?

2012-02-20 Thread Bob Bownes
Think trying to measure the distance between two distant moving spacecraft with no idea what the gravitational gradient is between them or the ability to measure the doppler. Unless, of course, Bill is doing much different things than he was when I last ran into him. :) On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at

Re: [time-nuts] How best to exchange Large files?

2012-02-20 Thread Dave M
Time-nuts are welcome to use: http://www.c-c-i.com/exchange/ to exchange files. As the name says, the page is there to exchange files. The normal use would be to upload your file, tell people about it, let them download it, then delete it. Please note that the page is completely public.

Re: [time-nuts] How best to exchange Large files?

2012-02-20 Thread Bob Smither
Brooke Clarke wrote: Hi: I've used: https://www.yousendit.com/ with no problems. Have Fun, Looks useful, but it appears to be mailing to a destination e-mail address. I know that some e-mail servers will not pass large files. Am I missing something? Thanks, --

Re: [time-nuts] How best to exchange Large files?

2012-02-20 Thread Brent Gordon
I've used this http://free.mailbigfile.com/ for years. You upload the file and they send an email to the recipient who then downloads the file. Brent On 2/20/2012 10:52 AM, WarrenS wrote: I'm just looking for an easy, temporary way (say lasting up to a week each) to transfer a few big files

Re: [time-nuts] How best to exchange Large files?

2012-02-20 Thread WarrenS
Bob Worked great for my long zip file, and a large. jpg Thanks very easy to use, this will be very helpful to me. still a little problem, It would NOT take my short .gif file unless I falsely renamed it with a .jpg extension ws Bob Smither smither at c-c-i.com Bob Smither

Re: [time-nuts] How best to exchange Large files?

2012-02-20 Thread Bob Smither
WarrenS wrote: Bob Worked great for my long zip file, and a large. jpg Thanks very easy to use, this will be very helpful to me. still a little problem, It would NOT take my short .gif file unless I falsely renamed it with a .jpg extension Thanks Warren! Should be fixed now. -- Bob

Re: [time-nuts] Low-long-term-drift clock for board level integration?

2012-02-20 Thread Bill Woodcock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Feb 20, 2012, at 8:34 AM, Achim Vollhardt wrote: what about White Rabbit? It delivers Gigabit Ethernet and precise (1nsec) timing over singlemode fiber. Ahah, but if I had singlemode fiber between locations all over the world, I wouldn't

Re: [time-nuts] How best to exchange Large files?

2012-02-20 Thread WarrenS
Bob The gif files upload OK now but the ones with funny non standard names will not download for me. can you tell me which character it does not like? ws * [time-nuts] How best to exchange Large files? WarrenS wrote: Bob Worked great for my long zip file, and a large. jpg

Re: [time-nuts] Low-long-term-drift clock for board level integration?

2012-02-20 Thread Bob Camp
Hi Since the network is being measured, I suspect that using it as the time reference would present a basic problem. Bob On Feb 20, 2012, at 2:07 PM, Jim Lux jim...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2/20/12 10:31 AM, Bob Camp wrote: Hi Simple answer: A rack mount cesium standard is as good as

Re: [time-nuts] Using digital broadcast TV for timing?

2012-02-20 Thread Stan Searing
Does anyone know if ABC used Cesium or just Rubidium standards? I have the Tracor 304SC shown in this URL: http://www.bdairfield.com/stan/time-nuts/Tracor-304SC/IMG_4216.JPG I assume the SC in the model number stands for the color subcarrier frequency for NTSC: 3.579545 MHz. The boards seem to be

Re: [time-nuts] Low-long-term-drift clock for board level integration?

2012-02-20 Thread Brooke Clarke
Hi Bob: It was my understanding that the receiving station knows the path taken, is that the case? Or are you saying even when it's the same path the time delay has large variations? Have Fun, Brooke Clarke http://www.PRC68.com http://www.end2partygovernment.com/Brooke4Congress.html Bob

Re: [time-nuts] Low-long-term-drift clock for board level integration?

2012-02-20 Thread Gmail
The path is variable. Internet routing is constantly in flux as routes are injected and retracted. On Feb 20, 2012, at 19:56, Brooke Clarke bro...@pacific.net wrote: Hi Bob: It was my understanding that the receiving station knows the path taken, is that the case? Or are you saying

Re: [time-nuts] Low-long-term-drift clock for board level integration?

2012-02-20 Thread Hal Murray
bro...@pacific.net said: It was my understanding that the receiving station knows the path taken, is that the case? Or are you saying even when it's the same path the time delay has large variations? Even if the path is stable, the delays vary due to queuing delays in routers. The simple

Re: [time-nuts] Using digital broadcast TV for timing?

2012-02-20 Thread paul swed
Stan By gosh that really is an old one. ABC very well could have been driven by a Rb ref. Though as I mentioned CBS was CS. So a bit hard to believe ABC and NBC were not. But I really simply do not remember. There had been a time when the networks were used for freq dissemination and thats why at

Re: [time-nuts] Low-long-term-drift clock for board level integration?

2012-02-20 Thread Chris Albertson
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Brooke Clarke bro...@pacific.net wrote: You may be able to do a similar thing in your receivers.  For example if the master node were to send a timing message at known times (say once at the top of  every hour) the receivers could use that to determine their

Re: [time-nuts] Low-long-term-drift clock for board level integration?

2012-02-20 Thread paul swed
Even if the path is mapped the ques in the switches can change. Say your packet is first and the next trip its the 50th. Just depends on the overall network loading. This has been tried many times and there is the ability to get a feel on the timing. But not like GPS. Regards Paul. WB8TSL On Mon,

Re: [time-nuts] How best to exchange Large files?

2012-02-20 Thread Dave M
Time-nuts are welcome to use: http://www.c-c-i.com/exchange/ to exchange files. As the name says, the page is there to exchange files. The normal use would be to upload your file, tell people about it, let them download it, then delete it. Please note that the page is completely public.

Re: [time-nuts] Low-long-term-drift clock for board level integration?

2012-02-20 Thread Bob Camp
Hi My understanding is that the path delay is what is being monitored. Bob On Feb 20, 2012, at 7:56 PM, Brooke Clarke bro...@pacific.net wrote: Hi Bob: It was my understanding that the receiving station knows the path taken, is that the case? Or are you saying even when it's the same

Re: [time-nuts] Low-long-term-drift clock for board level integration?

2012-02-20 Thread Bill Woodcock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Feb 20, 2012, at 11:07 AM, Jim Lux wrote: One question about the 100 microsecond spec.. is that a worst case at any instant, or is it an average spec over a day (so a consistent diurnal variation would cancel out) Well, it's not a hard

Re: [time-nuts] Low-long-term-drift clock for board level integration?

2012-02-20 Thread Chris Albertson
Even with a very minimal local Ethernet where the path is the same for every packet you still have variable timing. There are queues and buffers. Also it is not so easy to measure the time a network packet arrives at a computer. The serial port is the best hardware for timing. The DCD pin is

Re: [time-nuts] How best to exchange Large files?

2012-02-20 Thread David J Taylor
Hi: I've used: https://www.yousendit.com/ with no problems. Have Fun, Brooke Clarke .. but the limit on that service has changed from 100 MB down to 50 MB, making it rather less useful to me. Cheers, David -- SatSignal software - quality software written to your requirements Web:

Re: [time-nuts] OP-Amps for 10MHz distribution...?

2012-02-20 Thread Chris Albertson
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Steve iteratio...@gmail.com wrote: Decent frame? Plenty of internal room for tweaking? What make and model? You've got me interested! You have to keep watching, every day or two. thinks like this come up. Craigs list also it you live in a place with lots of

Re: [time-nuts] OP-Amps for 10MHz distribution...?

2012-02-20 Thread Ulrich Bangert
Mike, op amps for that purpose should be available from a lot of companies. They are not created all equal. My latest own design of a distribution amp involves one AD8007 input stage with variable gain and 8 AD8007 output stages. This design is good for a channel to channel isolation of 90 dB and