[time-nuts] GPS receivers W/timing outputs greater than 1PPS

2013-06-25 Thread Perry Sandeen
List, RDR electronics in Colorado has Motorola M12+ OnCore GPS Timing Receiver 3V 1pps 100Hz for $20. They also have other GPS units.  Cheaper than chicoms and guaranteed.  Stock varies so check from time to time if you don't see what you need. I'm a multiple happy camper customer. Regards, P

[time-nuts] 60 KHz receiver number

2013-06-25 Thread Perry Sandeen
List, 60 KHz SYMTRIK Radio Time Receiver..Item number: 230991713311 Regards, Perrier ___ 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] 60 KHz receivers

2013-06-25 Thread paul swed
went to pv electronics direct. They are reasonably priced. But they don't give the detail needed. I am pretty sure these are the old cmax or temic chips. Since I don't have one can't really tell you. Regards Paul WB8TSL On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:44 PM, paul swed wrote: > I looked and did not s

Re: [time-nuts] 60 KHz receivers

2013-06-25 Thread paul swed
I looked and did not see the radio As to could it work yes. You might have to invert the data. Regards Paul WB8TSL On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Perry Sandeen wrote: > > > > > > List, > > On Ebay I stumbled upon a site called pv. electronics from England > >

Re: [time-nuts] Spectracom 8164 Hack?

2013-06-25 Thread paul swed
Reasonable opens all kinds of doors. The recvr is pretty simple so if it were 100 KC there would be a big 100KC xtal. That gets replaced with a 60 Khz and away you go. However I think that switch selects sampling from an input reference so would thinks its actually 60Khz Regards Paul. On Tue, Jun

Re: [time-nuts] Spectracom 8164 Hack?

2013-06-25 Thread paul swed
Not sure this went. Reasonable opens all kinds of doors. The recvr is pretty simple so if it were 100 KC there would be a big 100KC xtal. That gets replaced with a 60 Khz tuning fork and away you go. However I think that switch selects sampling from an input reference so would thinks its actually a

[time-nuts] 60 KHz receivers

2013-06-25 Thread Perry Sandeen
List, On Ebay I stumbled upon a site called pv. electronics from England The site offers a 60 KHz SYMTRIK Radio Time Receiver Module W/100 MM Antenna for $25 delivered.  I don't know if this will work with Paul Sweed's circuits or not. It looks like the stu

[time-nuts] Spectracom 8164 Hack?

2013-06-25 Thread Perry Sandeen
List,  There are several Spectracom 8164 receiver available on Ebay. My question: on the front panel bank of frequency selection switches, the left hand switch is marked .1MHz.  Is that really a 100 KHz (for LORAN) setting or is it really tuned to WWVB? If it truly is tuned to 100KHz can it be

Re: [time-nuts] OT Prototype Boards

2013-06-25 Thread Chris Albertson
Your "pi" example does not work. Pi is not a definition. the length of an inch has changed many times over the centuries so there have been many definitions. So yes 2.54 mm is the current definition but there are others and you only have to go mack to 1958 to find that another definition of the

Re: [time-nuts] Frequency subtraction with D-flip flops

2013-06-25 Thread EWKehren
In the Austron 2110 is a dual D FF Mixer along with circuitry to get 100 Hz out. I did a board using 2 XTAL Filter stages and you can get 1 E-12 using a 100 MHz period counter. Using my previously mentioned Ping Pong counter at 200 MHz and Offset of 1 Hz at 5 MHz you get 1 Hz out. Resolution

Re: [time-nuts] OT Prototype Boards

2013-06-25 Thread Magnus Danielson
Hi Bob, On 06/25/2013 06:17 PM, Bob Stewart wrote: Hi Hal, I had always used 25.4001 or .03937 to do my conversions. So, I looked online and found the .039370078 and did the reciprocal. It is, indeed very very close to 25.4. If you google "25.4001 conversion" you can find lots of tables us

Re: [time-nuts] OT Prototype Boards

2013-06-25 Thread J. Forster
It was a JOKE!!! And, in fact, pi IS a definition: the ratio of the circumferance to the diameter of a circle - whether it's measured in cubits, furlongs, nanometers, or light years. -John == > Your "pi" example does not work. Pi is not a definition. the length of > an inch has

Re: [time-nuts] OT Prototype Boards

2013-06-25 Thread Bruce Griffiths
Chris Albertson wrote: On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Bob Stewart wrote: Hi Hal, I had always used 25.4001 or .03937 to do my conversions. So, I looked online and found the .039370078 and did the reciprocal. It is, indeed very very close to 25.4. If you google "25.4001 conversion" yo

[time-nuts] Frequency subtraction with D-flip flops

2013-06-25 Thread Mike M
(Original seems to have got lost. Try again) > More recently we are using two D FF's for mixing in A/V > applications and very high resolution frequency measurements with > up to 1 E-15 a second using output frequencies from 0.5 Hz to 100 > Hz. > Do to attachment limitati

Re: [time-nuts] Frequency subtraction with D-flip flops

2013-06-25 Thread Mike M
(Original seems to have got lost - try again) > More recently we are using two D FF's for mixing in A/V > applications and very high resolution frequency measurements with > up to 1 E-15 a second using output frequencies from 0.5 Hz to 100 > Hz. > Do to attachment limitat

Re: [time-nuts] OT Prototype Boards

2013-06-25 Thread Hal Murray
b...@evoria.net said: > If you google "25.4001 conversion" you can find lots of tables using that as > the conversion factor online.  I don't know where the error came from or why > it's quoted so regularly. Thanks. I never would have thought to search for 25.4001. That's an amazing calibrati

Re: [time-nuts] tube GPS receivers - delay memory

2013-06-25 Thread Brian Alsop
No. I'd say the electronics is several years more advanced. Not the same company. However, the idea and construction is essentially the same. 73 de Brian/K3KO On 6/25/2013 18:23, Mike Naruta AA8K wrote: Could this be one of them Brian? Mike - AA8K On 06/24/2013 06:58 AM, Brian Alsop wro

Re: [time-nuts] OT Prototype Boards

2013-06-25 Thread J. Forster
No. It's THE definition... there is only one. It's not like Pi, which equals 3 for small circles. -John === > In message > > , Robert Darlington writes: > >>Machinists know that 1 inch is exactly 2.54cm or 25.4mm. It's a >>definition, not a coincidence. > > The crucial word in

Re: [time-nuts] OT Prototype Boards

2013-06-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message , Robert Darlington writes: >Machinists know that 1 inch is exactly 2.54cm or 25.4mm. It's a >definition, not a coincidence. The crucial word in that statement being "a" :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 Free

Re: [time-nuts] Measuring speed of light or reproducing a metre

2013-06-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message , Jim Palfreyman writes: >With a 3325B, a 5370B, and other time-nut miscellany, what's the quickest >way you can come up with to measure the speed of light OR reproduce the >metre. Run a couple of meters bare wire across your table, terminate one end in 50 Ohm and feed the other end w

Re: [time-nuts] OT Prototype Boards

2013-06-25 Thread Robert Darlington
Machinists know that 1 inch is exactly 2.54cm or 25.4mm. It's a definition, not a coincidence. -Bob On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Bob Stewart wrote: > Hi Hal, > > I had always used 25.4001 or .03937 to do my conversions. So, I looked > online and found the .039370078 and did the reciproc

Re: [time-nuts] OT Prototype Boards

2013-06-25 Thread Chris Albertson
Likely you had a very old perf board that was made before the 0.1" spacing was common. Back in the vacuum tube days the solder strips had tabs on 3/8" centers and layouts were done on multiples of that. And then when the early through hole chips came out they were on 0.1 centers. And you couldn

[time-nuts] Piezo

2013-06-25 Thread Electronics and Books
Found book analysis of piezoelectric devices https://rapidshare.com/files/4115908681/piezo.pdf ___ 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 ther

Re: [time-nuts] OT Prototype Boards

2013-06-25 Thread Chris Albertson
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Bob Stewart wrote: > Hi Hal, > > I had always used 25.4001 or .03937 to do my conversions. So, I looked > online and found the .039370078 and did the reciprocal. It is, indeed very > very close to 25.4. If you google "25.4001 conversion" you can find lots > of

Re: [time-nuts] OT Prototype Boards

2013-06-25 Thread Bob Stewart
Hi Hal, I had always used 25.4001 or .03937 to do my conversions.  So, I looked online and found the .039370078 and did the reciprocal.  It is, indeed very very close to 25.4.  If you google "25.4001 conversion" you can find lots of tables using that as the conversion factor online.  I don't kn

Re: [time-nuts] OT Prototype Boards

2013-06-25 Thread MailLists
That's overstretched... eastern chips worked quite well, similarly to western counterparts. Some faulty prototypes could have been distributed through the black market, but none would've been incorporated in an official product. Even the westerners had bugs... CCCP, and PRL made intel clones, DD

Re: [time-nuts] Measuring speed of light or reproducing a metre

2013-06-25 Thread Chris Albertson
Earthquakes, yes that range is one of the most active in the world. They measure an uplift of as much as 2 inches per year, those mountains are still getting taller. On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Jim Lux wrote: > On 6/24/13 6:48 PM, Tom Miller wrote: > >> I wonder what the actual distance i

Re: [time-nuts] OT Prototype Boards

2013-06-25 Thread Bob Stewart
You are right, I was wrong.  The Russian 8080 boards were made with 2.5mm, not 2.54. - Original Message - > From: MailLists > To: j...@quikus.com; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 10:05 AM > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] OT Prot

Re: [time-nuts] OT Prototype Boards

2013-06-25 Thread Hal Murray
b...@evoria.net said: > OK, I see in the wiki that 0.1" is by definition 2.54mm.  I was taught it > was 2.54001, but that's not right, either.  But, if industry says that > they're defined as the same, then I'm the one out of date.  =)  I wonder > what was with that old prototype board.  I can't f

Re: [time-nuts] OT Prototype Boards

2013-06-25 Thread MailLists
In the eastern block the customary pitch was exactly 2.5mm. At least SSSR and DDR ICs were made so. For DIP40s it was a little of a stretch (read pin bending) job to get them fit on .1" spaced boards... On 6/25/2013 5:09 PM, J. Forster wrote: It's not 'industry'. It's the international standar

Re: [time-nuts] OT Prototype Boards

2013-06-25 Thread Tom Clifton
With Glass/Epoxy protoboards being so expensive, I have bought several lots of a phenolic perf board for prototypes off the web and they have been the most inexpensive boards I have ever found.  I don't feel bad about trashing failed prototypes..  Search your favorite site for 7x9cm PCB Blank Ci

Re: [time-nuts] OT Prototype Boards

2013-06-25 Thread Bob Stewart
Brent, I seem to remember a story about the early days of micro-computing, when Russia was cloning 8080 chips.  Their chips were of such poor quality that each chip had a unique list of executions that could not be used.  Anyway, the Russians had sized their chip in metric measurements (2.54mm)

Re: [time-nuts] OT Prototype Boards

2013-06-25 Thread Tom Miller
Maybe it was a 2 mm pitch, a somewhat common size. Others that come to mind are 0.125 and 0.156 inches. Tom - Original Message - From: "Bob Stewart" To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 10:03 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] OT Prototyp

Re: [time-nuts] OT Prototype Boards

2013-06-25 Thread Brent Gordon
I once saw a board that was 2.5 mm, which would cause what you describe. As soon as I figured out what the problem was, in the trash it went. Brent On 6/25/2013 8:03 AM, Bob Stewart wrote: OK, I see in the wiki that 0.1" is by definition 2.54mm. I was taught it was 2.54001, but that's not

Re: [time-nuts] OT Prototype Boards

2013-06-25 Thread J. Forster
It's not 'industry'. It's the international standards agency, whatever it's called. The folks that define a meter as some number of wavelengths of light in vacuo and so on. There are some early perf boards that have holes on 1/16" centers, for use w/flea clips'. -John === > OK, I

Re: [time-nuts] OT Prototype Boards

2013-06-25 Thread Bob Stewart
OK, I see in the wiki that 0.1" is by definition 2.54mm.  I was taught it was 2.54001, but that's not right, either.  But, if industry says that they're defined as the same, then I'm the one out of date.  =)  I wonder what was with that old prototype board.  I can't find it, so it must be in a l

Re: [time-nuts] OT Prototype Boards

2013-06-25 Thread J. Forster
2.54 mm is DEFINED as 0.1 inch. The conversion is EXACT. -John > 2.54 mm pitch is close enough to the .1 in "standard". The through-hole > DIP chips will fit fine. I used to build stuff with .1 in perfboard, > sockets, and wire-wrap but only use a very few glue chips now and >

Re: [time-nuts] Frequency subtraction with D-flip flops

2013-06-25 Thread EWKehren
Forty years ago I did a digital mixer using three J K FF's to subtract the IF from the LO for remote monitoring of radio stations. The output is not symmetrical but great for a frequency counter. Shortly there after Motorola introduced the MC12000 a D FF intended and widely used for PLL appl

Re: [time-nuts] tube GPS receivers

2013-06-25 Thread jmfranke
For the VCO, how about a reactance modulator. They were very popular for the sweeping local oscillator in many a panadapter. Or perhaps one of the voice coil based wobbulators? John WA4WDL Bob Camp wrote: > Hi > > I believe that if you dig into it, the correlator is either running qui

Re: [time-nuts] Measuring speed of light or reproducing a metre

2013-06-25 Thread Jim Lux
On 6/24/13 6:48 PM, Tom Miller wrote: I wonder what the actual distance is using current GPS survey processes? Tom SLightly different, because there are some faults running across there and there have been some earthquakes with displacement. ___

Re: [time-nuts] tube GPS receivers

2013-06-25 Thread Bob Camp
Hi I believe that if you dig into it, the correlator is either running quite fast (in serial mode) or is pretty large (parallel processing). Since you know neither the code nor the doppler (no almanac) you are sweeping both the frequency and the code. The VCO is a bit of a challenge (as menti

Re: [time-nuts] Frequency subtraction with D-flip flops

2013-06-25 Thread Tom Van Baak
Thanks, Bruce, for that wonderful phase meter patent reference. Very interesting. BTW, if any of you are wondering why the patent mentions comparing 10.23 MHz (GPS) with a "very accurate" 13.4 MHz, the following paper explains that our favorite cesium frequency 9192.631770 MHz / 686 = 13.400...

Re: [time-nuts] Frequency subtraction with D-flip flops

2013-06-25 Thread Bruce Griffiths
Javier Serrano wrote: On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 4:36 AM, ed breya wrote: 4. It seems to me that whenever fd is much higher than fc (fd>>fc), that fd could be used instead to trigger the second DFF, which would reduce the metastability of the first DFF somewhat, and also synchronize the outpu

Re: [time-nuts] Frequency subtraction with D-flip flops

2013-06-25 Thread Javier Serrano
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 4:36 AM, ed breya wrote: > > 4. It seems to me that whenever fd is much higher than fc (fd>>fc), that > fd could be used instead to trigger the second DFF, which would reduce the > metastability of the first DFF somewhat, and also synchronize the output > signal closer to