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

2012-05-11 Thread mike cook
Le 11/05/2012 07:14, Peter Monta a écrit : 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

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

2012-05-11 Thread Sam
I don't know what firmware version is in the units fluke.l is selling but after reading a technical bulletin regarding the Resolution T, I wonder if the SMT version is susceptible to the same signal tracking outage every 12.5 minutes bug that the Resolution T firmware previous to 1.17

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

2012-05-11 Thread Azelio Boriani
OK, I see that indeed there are different views: in my opinion, for example, it is good that the unit doesn't talk by itself. I prefer to prepare the environment then command the unit to start talk or poll the unit on a cyclic base. I found a Trimble monitor here:

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-11 Thread MailLists
Ashihara's tests were with music/voice, taking into account psychoacoustics, for an average group of music savvy listeners, and even music professionals. As uncorrelated jitter is practically raising the noise floor, most of it was masked by the signal, making it more difficult to detect.

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-11 Thread Heinzmann, Stefan (ALC NetworX GmbH)
MailLists wrote: Ashihara's tests were with music/voice, taking into account psychoacoustics, for an average group of music savvy listeners, and even music professionals. As uncorrelated jitter is practically raising the noise floor, most of it was masked by the signal, making it more

[time-nuts] Calculating phase jitter from phase noise - appnote by silabs

2012-05-11 Thread Attila Kinali
Moin, I just stumbled over a nice little summary how to calculate the jitter of a signal from its phase noise plot by silicon labs: http://www.silabs.com/Support%20Documents/TechnicalDocs/AN256.pdf Attila Kinali -- The trouble with you, Shev, is you don't say anything

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

2012-05-11 Thread Hal Murray
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. I can think of a couple of reasons. I'm sure there are more. One would be marketing type

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

2012-05-11 Thread Rob Kimberley
Zyfer produced a paper on WAAS for timing. http://support.fei-zyfer.com/downloads.aspx You will need to create a log-in and password to download their stuff. Rob Kimberley -Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Mark Sims

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-11 Thread shalimr9
The brain uses phase at low frequency and amplitude at higher frequencies to find the direction a signal is coming from. It works better for low frequencies than high when you have a steady tone, but high frequency positioning is better when the signal is pulsed. It is almost impossible to

[time-nuts] (no subject)

2012-05-11 Thread Mark Sims
I like Less than $20... Not for Sale Sounds like vaporcrap to me... - Or 216 channels (GPS L1/L2/L2C/L5; GLONASS L1/L2; Galileo E1/E5A): http://www.javad.com/jgnss/products/triumph.html

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

2012-05-11 Thread Mark Sims
I like Less than $20... Not for Sale Sounds like vaporcrap to me... - Or 216 channels (GPS L1/L2/L2C/L5; GLONASS L1/L2; Galileo E1/E5A): http://www.javad.com/jgnss/products/triumph.html

Re: [time-nuts] (no subject)

2012-05-11 Thread bg
I like Less than $20... Not for Sale Sounds like vaporcrap to me... - Or 216 channels (GPS L1/L2/L2C/L5; GLONASS L1/L2; Galileo E1/E5A): http://www.javad.com/jgnss/products/triumph.html Have used Delta receivers in production at a former employment. They are very

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

2012-05-11 Thread Rob Kimberley
Wasn't this the company that was championing Lightspeed? :-) Rob -Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Mark Sims Sent: 11 May 2012 12:20 To: time-nuts@febo.com Subject: [time-nuts] Trimble Resolution SMT -

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-11 Thread shalimr9
Breathing and heart beat are filtered out and corrected for by the brain, otherwise we would have difficulties to hear a lot of things. Interestingly, that works well in our natural environment, but not as well when you are somewhere else. When free diving (when there is no noisy scuba gear and

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

2012-05-11 Thread shalimr9
Yes, I moved them yesterday Didier KO4BB --Original Message-- From: Mark Sims Sender: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com To: Time-Nuts ReplyTo: Time-Nuts Subject: [time-nuts] Trimble Resolution SMT - good/bad/indifferent? Sent: May 10, 2012 11:02 PM Why in the hell would anybody build a 50

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

2012-05-11 Thread shalimr9
And why would one not want to have 0.7m horizontal accuracy while moving at 100s of knots? You probably need a lot better than that when you fly a SAR on a jet like the GlobalHawk. Didier KO4BB Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless thingy while I do other things... -Original Message-

[time-nuts] hey

2012-05-11 Thread CORNACCHIA
you should definitely check this thing out http://www.four15news.net/biz/?read=8780772 ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-11 Thread Henk
Hi, That jitter value, was that one period jitter? Or was it jitter over a large number of periods, thus close by the carrier? Henk MailLists wrote: Ashihara's tests were with music/voice, taking into account psychoacoustics, for an average group of music savvy listeners, and even music

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

2012-05-11 Thread Sam
I uploaded the FEI-Zyfer WAAS papers to zippyshare if anyone is interested. http://www32.zippyshare.com/v/66696070/file.html Sam. Zyfer produced a paper on WAAS for timing. http://support.fei-zyfer.com/downloads.aspx You will need to create a log-in and password to download their stuff.

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

2012-05-11 Thread swingbyte
On 11/05/2012 00:44, b...@lysator.liu.se wrote: 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

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

2012-05-11 Thread Chuck Harris
Go to your local building and planning commission, and get yourself a copy of the topographical map for your address. They are cheap, and are the standard by which everyone (insurance, zoning, ...) determines your flood plane exposure. -Chuck Harris ... Well that's disappointing! I need to

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

2012-05-11 Thread Jim Lux
On 5/11/12 4:34 AM, shali...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I moved them yesterday Didier KO4BB --Original Message-- From: Mark Sims Sender: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com To: Time-Nuts ReplyTo: Time-Nuts Subject: [time-nuts] Trimble Resolution SMT - good/bad/indifferent? Sent: May 10, 2012 11:02

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-11 Thread Jim Lux
On 5/11/12 12:48 AM, MailLists wrote: Who would listen to pure sine tones? As a youth, I listened to WWV, which is a pure sine tone, in between the ticks. Drove my parents batty. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To

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

2012-05-11 Thread Jim Lux
On 5/11/12 2:38 AM, Hal Murray wrote: 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. I can think of a couple of reasons. I'm sure there are

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

2012-05-11 Thread paul swed
OK I have learned a lot and absolutely fantastic news. No matter what my aged CS says I can claim its accurate now. Its simply the world has not caught up to or slowed down to it. Regards Paul On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:30 AM, mike cook michael.c...@sfr.fr wrote: Le 11/05/2012 07:14, Peter Monta

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

2012-05-11 Thread bg
On 5/11/12 2:38 AM, Hal Murray wrote: 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. I can think of a couple of reasons. I'm sure there are

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

2012-05-11 Thread Jim Lux
On 5/11/12 5:23 AM, swingbyte wrote: s disappointing! I need to measure the height of my house floor to be above the flood plane contour. I might have a look at some dted from work. Might have to pay a real surveyor to measure the height datum. Thanks for all the info though guys for that,

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

2012-05-11 Thread Jim Lux
On 5/11/12 5:54 AM, Chuck Harris wrote: Go to your local building and planning commission, and get yourself a copy of the topographical map for your address. They are cheap, and are the standard by which everyone (insurance, zoning, ...) determines your flood plane exposure. I have been

Re: [time-nuts] Calculating phase jitter from phase noise - appnote by silabs

2012-05-11 Thread Jim Lux
On 5/11/12 1:51 AM, Attila Kinali wrote: Moin, I just stumbled over a nice little summary how to calculate the jitter of a signal from its phase noise plot by silicon labs: http://www.silabs.com/Support%20Documents/TechnicalDocs/AN256.pdf Attila Kinali and one from

[time-nuts] TU-60 Instruction to set NMEA output

2012-05-11 Thread Merv Thomas
Hi, I am new to timenuts. Is anyone able to give me the binary command sentence/code to send to my Jupiter TU-60 to change it's output from Binary to NMEA please? I assume it has to be a binary command starting with @@ but I am unable to find a suitable command using Tac32 control software.

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

2012-05-11 Thread Chuck Harris
The FEMA maps didn't exist the last time I did this. I would think it likely that the building and planning commission office for his area would have the appropriate maps, as establishing that the proposed house's location is outside of the the 100 year flood plane, is a necessary check mark in

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-11 Thread Stanley
- Original Message - From: Jim Lux jim...@earthlink.net To: time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 8:10 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear On 5/11/12 12:48 AM, MailLists wrote: Who would listen to pure sine tones? As a youth, I listened to WWV, which is a

Re: [time-nuts] Calculating phase jitter from phase noise - appnote by silabs

2012-05-11 Thread Azelio Boriani
And one from HP/Agilent (taking into account the colored noise too: http://cp.literature.agilent.com/litweb/pdf/5990-3108EN.pdf And one from Fordahl, with the random zero cross consideration: http://www.metatech.com.tw/doc/appnote-fordahl/e-AN-02-3.pdf On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Jim Lux

Re: [time-nuts] Calculating phase jitter from phase noise - appnote by silabs

2012-05-11 Thread Bob Camp
Hi Be very careful with all these phase noise to jitter conversions. They make some assumptions about the noise that are likely true, but may not be. The gotcha is that a normal noise measurement does not take phase data. Without the phase data you really can't properly do the reconstruction. You

Re: [time-nuts] Tbolt failure modes

2012-05-11 Thread shalimr9
The -12V is only used to support the RS-232 driver. The CPU should be running and you should have discipline even without the -12V Didier KO4BB Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless thingy while I do other things... -Original Message- From: J. L. Trantham jlt...@att.net Sender:

[time-nuts] Tbolt failure modes

2012-05-11 Thread Mark Sims
It also makes the negative DAC voltage rail. The Tbolt DAC swings from -5V to +5V. Lose the -12V and you can lose oscillator control. - The -12V is only used to support the RS-232 driver. The CPU should be running and you should have discipline even without the

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

2012-05-11 Thread Randy D. Hunt
On 5/11/2012 6:46 AM, Jim Lux wrote: On 5/11/12 5:23 AM, swingbyte wrote: s disappointing! I need to measure the height of my house floor to be above the flood plane contour. I might have a look at some dted from work. Might have to pay a real surveyor to measure the height datum. Thanks for

Re: [time-nuts] Tbolt failure modes

2012-05-11 Thread Ed Palmer
Are there multiple hardware versions of the Tbolt (other than the Tbolt-E)? My Tbolt has an Intersil 232IBE dual TTL to RS232 converter - similar to MAX232. It generates it's own -12V. This is the version shown on Brooke Clarke's Thunderbolt page: http://www.prc68.com/I/ThunderBolt.shtml

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-11 Thread DaveH
Two things 1) - people in anechoic chambers will really notice the sound of their heartbeats as well as the s-sh-s-sh sound of the blood flowing through their heads. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anechoic_chamber They are designed to have complete sound absorption and are dead quiet.

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

2012-05-11 Thread Tom Van Baak
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. Hi Peter, Everyone should take ten seconds and look

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

2012-05-11 Thread paul swed
So what you are saying is every 30 years select a new leap CS reference. Dispense with everything in between. On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Tom Van Baak t...@leapsecond.com wrote: Are there better estimates of the ET second nowadays (relative to the SI second)? It would be interesting to

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

2012-05-11 Thread J. Forster
IMO, that would be a disaster for all areas of physics and engineering, except for possibly some aspects of astronomy. When they 'redefined' the Volt some years ago it was a goat rodeo. -John === So what you are saying is every 30 years select a new leap CS reference.

Re: [time-nuts] Calculating phase jitter from phase noise - appnote by silabs

2012-05-11 Thread SAIDJACK
Hi, here is a very nice and easy to use online calculator for doing exactly this: _http://jittertime.com/resources/pncalc.shtml_ (http://jittertime.com/resources/pncalc.shtml) bye, Said In a message dated 5/11/2012 09:17:30 Pacific Daylight Time, li...@rtty.us writes: Hi Be very

Re: [time-nuts] TU-60 Instruction to set NMEA output

2012-05-11 Thread mike cook
Hi Merv, I found the Navman Jupiter designers guide which has the message formats. What you need is message 1331. Tac32 supports this receiver, so there should be a possibility at setup to specify NMEA protocol. Else stuff it a 1331 . The guide is at

Re: [time-nuts] TU-60 Instruction to set NMEA output

2012-05-11 Thread bg
Hi Merv, Hi, I am new to timenuts. Is anyone able to give me the binary command sentence/code to send to my Jupiter TU-60 to change it's output from Binary to NMEA please? I assume it has to be a binary command starting with @@ but I am unable to find a suitable command using Tac32

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

2012-05-11 Thread Peter Monta
Everyone should take ten seconds and look at this animated GIF: http://leapsecond.com/pages/ut/ut-ani-v2.gif Very nice. I guess a comparable plot with ephemeris time would be a lot noisier and sparser, something like the graphs in the Markowitz 1988 paper. I wonder if there's some sort of

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

2012-05-11 Thread Bob Camp
Hi BIH Bob On May 11, 2012, at 5:49 PM, Peter Monta wrote: Everyone should take ten seconds and look at this animated GIF: http://leapsecond.com/pages/ut/ut-ani-v2.gif Very nice. I guess a comparable plot with ephemeris time would be a lot noisier and sparser, something like the graphs

[time-nuts] Improved timing through simple dish

2012-05-11 Thread SAIDJACK
Hugo's idea of using a Sat dish to zoom in on a WAAS Sat as discussed in the below paper is quite brilliant I think, and it seems one should be able to make use of it by disabling the GPS sats (via mask angle for example) in receivers that support WAAS, and that are used in position hold

Re: [time-nuts] helibowl GPS antennas

2012-05-11 Thread Peter Monta
So, I've looked at several dozen helibowls and talked to makers of said items.. Thanks for posting this; maybe a homemade helibowl is a good way to get a low-cost GPS antenna with full frequency coverage down to L5. In my search for survey-grade antennas at hobbyist prices, I ran across this,

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

2012-05-11 Thread Mark Sims
One nasty thing about these receivers is that they seem to be useless as a general purpose GPS receiver. Once they have a saved position (even if you erase the old one) it does not update the lat/lon/alt values (even if you put the receiver into 3D mode). It does not even update

Re: [time-nuts] Tbolt failure modes

2012-05-11 Thread J. L. Trantham
Well, this prompted a short experiment to test my observations in the past. I have a TBolt that requires +5, +12, and -12 VDC as separate inputs along with the antenna. A year or more ago, another list member posted a question about a failure of his TBolt, the specifics I do not remember, other

Re: [time-nuts] TU-60 Instruction to set NMEA output

2012-05-11 Thread Merv Thomas
Hi All, Thanks for the 2 prompt replies. Tac32 does not have any facility to enter 1331 as an instruction. It has numerous @@ commands but the TU 60 datasheets only list a small fraction of these commands and none pertain to setting the protocol!! It is like it is a carefully guarded

Re: [time-nuts] TU-60 Instruction to set NMEA output

2012-05-11 Thread Merv Thomas
Hi Bj?m and Mike, I have some older TU's like the 30 and these are easy to set for binary or NMEA but the TU 60 requires a specific command 1331 and I am not savvy enough to convert this into a meaningful @@ command if there is such a valid command. One would have thought the manufacturer