Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO simulation tool

2014-03-24 Thread Hal Murray
mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org said: I did a temporary hack on the PID code to convert the D-term into I^2 term, by integrating the integrator output. First attempt was indeed quite resonant just to show that I was in the unsafe region. Backing down on the strength of the component sure did

Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO control system

2014-03-24 Thread Hal Murray
Does anybody have data on the drift of Rs or Cs? Rule of thumb: ... Ah, thanks. But by Rs and Cs I meant plural or R/resistor and C/capacitor. I know they change a lot with temperature, but how much do they drift if the temperature is constant? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam.

Re: [time-nuts] Nav Receiver Sawtooth Correction?

2014-03-24 Thread Hal Murray
b...@evoria.net said: Thanks for the response.  I've got a UT+ in the parts box.  But that's not the problem I'm trying to solve.  I'm trying to make the best GPSDO that I can make using a nav receiver at the moment.  Call it an obsession if you like.  It's OK if I don't have corrections to

Re: [time-nuts] NIST time services

2014-03-24 Thread Hal Murray
albertson.ch...@gmail.com said: The assumption NTP makes is that you can judge the quality of a server by the variance (of jitter) in the time it reports. I think it's more complicated than that. I think it also includes the non-jitter part of the round trip time. NTP assumes the path is

Re: [time-nuts] NIST time services

2014-03-24 Thread Hal Murray
ja...@extremeoverclocking.com said: If there was some sort of feature in NTP (maybe there already is???), or even a separate program that could test a list of NTP servers to try and pick the lowest latency, I think that could have a positive benefit on better time transfer. The current

Re: [time-nuts] NIST time services

2014-03-24 Thread Chris Albertson
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 11:50 PM, Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.netwrote: albertson.ch...@gmail.com said: The assumption NTP makes is that you can judge the quality of a server by the variance (of jitter) in the time it reports. I think it's more complicated than that. I think it

Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO control system

2014-03-24 Thread Charles Steinmetz
David wrote: How do you lock your OCXO to the PRS10? I just use a 1:1 PLL. Some will argue that phase locking two oscillators running at the same frequency is not optimal, but I have found that it can work very well. YMMV. Perhaps locking a 100 MHz OCXO to the PRS10 and dividing its

Re: [time-nuts] NIST time services

2014-03-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message CABbxVHuQc0144==21mDa_R8ErKov=em+9rvrbpggexnzztj...@mail.gmail.com , Chris Albertson writes: Yes. NTP calls it root distance [...] And it is generally useless, because people don't calibrate it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org |

Re: [time-nuts] Equinox and sidereal time

2014-03-24 Thread Neville Michie
Thanks Paul, I should be able to get this information online, but nearly all my attempts to get information from USA military sites seem to be blocked to Australia, or may be just to me. I click the URL and wait two minutes and it times out. Any time day or night. It is very frustrating as the

Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO control system

2014-03-24 Thread Bob Camp
Hi Which R’s and C’s did you buy? There are a *lot* of different types and they each have their issues. A very common issue is - “they came from the store”. Any ability to trace them back to a manufacturer and a process has been lost. Bob On Mar 24, 2014, at 2:29 AM, Hal Murray

Re: [time-nuts] Nav Receiver Sawtooth Correction?

2014-03-24 Thread Bob Camp
Hi There is a lot of math in a GPS receiver. In a “typical” nav receiver, time is not a priority. The code may well be optimized to “shove” all the error into time rather than position. They also may not have spend much effort debugging the time related code …. Bob On Mar 23, 2014, at 11:08

Re: [time-nuts] Equinox and sidereal time

2014-03-24 Thread Tim Shoppa
Try the _Astronomical Almanac_. I am not so familiar with the navigation almanacs, but the bread and butter of the astronomical almanac is the equation of time and transformation between time systems. The joint publisher is HMNAO so I'm sure not banned from Australia :-) On 3/24/14, Neville

Re: [time-nuts] NIST time services

2014-03-24 Thread Jim Lux
On 3/23/14 10:48 AM, Paul wrote: On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Bob Camp li...@rtty.us wrote: I suspect that what NIST is looking for is somebody in the cloud business (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, IBM) to step up and mention that they have 2,989,875 server racks scattered about the world and

Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO simulation tool

2014-03-24 Thread Joseph Gwinn
On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 21:33:07 -0400, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote: Message: 1 Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 00:48:01 +0100 From: Magnus Danielson mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org To: time-nuts@febo.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO simulation tool Jim, On 23/03/14 16:00, Jim Miller wrote: To

Re: [time-nuts] Equinox and sidereal time

2014-03-24 Thread Said Jackson
Neville, Use an AOL account to access the web. Has worked for me like a charm for two decades now even in places like China that like to block most of the good US sites. Basically creates a VPN into the AOL servers bypassing all the filtering. Bye, Said Sent From iPhone On Mar 24, 2014, at

Re: [time-nuts] Nav Receiver Sawtooth Correction?

2014-03-24 Thread Chris Albertson
That was kind of like my suggestion. You can't back out random noise. But you can measure noise. I think not using the data when it is noisy is the extreme case of what I suggested which was to get the loop gain based on the noise. Not looking at the data is the same as setting gain to zero.

Re: [time-nuts] Equinox and sidereal time

2014-03-24 Thread Tim Shoppa
I think this sort of table is what you want, right? Vernal equinox is when sun passes through zero point of right ascension. I made this online at http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/geocentric.php Astronomical almanac has coarser tables and constants/instructions for interpolating. I think the

Re: [time-nuts] Equinox and sidereal time

2014-03-24 Thread Michael Spacefalcon
Said Jackson saidj...@aol.com wrote: Use an AOL account to access the web. Or use Tor. Can you get to Tor entry nodes from Australia? SF ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to

Re: [time-nuts] Equinox and sidereal time

2014-03-24 Thread David McGaw
There is a UK version of the almanac: http://asa.hmnao.com/ David N1HAC On 3/24/14 7:26 AM, Tim Shoppa wrote: Try the _Astronomical Almanac_. I am not so familiar with the navigation almanacs, but the bread and butter of the astronomical almanac is the equation of time and transformation

[time-nuts] M12+T Timing specs

2014-03-24 Thread Jim Miller
I'm reading the Rev6.x Users guide from the Synergy website. The timing accuracy quoted on Page 21 indicates 20ns 6sigma average without the clock granularity message which I interpret to mean the user is not correcting for sawtooth errors. The timing granularity message from Page 167 is shown

Re: [time-nuts] Equinox and sidereal time

2014-03-24 Thread David McGaw
There is a UK version of the almanac: http://asa.hmnao.com/ David N1HAC On 3/24/14 7:26 AM, Tim Shoppa wrote: Try the _Astronomical Almanac_. I am not so familiar with the navigation almanacs, but the bread and butter of the astronomical almanac is the equation of time and transformation

Re: [time-nuts] NIST time services

2014-03-24 Thread Harlan Stenn
Poul-Henning Kamp writes: In message CABbxVHuQc0144==21mDa_R8ErKov=em+9rvrbpggexnzztj...@mail.gmail.co m , Chris Albertson writes: Yes. NTP calls it root distance [...] And it is generally useless, because people don't calibrate it. http://bugs.ntp.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2587 Because I've

[time-nuts] Equinox and sidereal time

2014-03-24 Thread Ronald Held
Find a copy of Meeus's Astronomical algorithms and program it for when you want the data. Ronald ___ 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

Re: [time-nuts] NIST time services

2014-03-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message e1wsboi-000dny...@stenn.ntp.org, Harlan Stenn writes: Poul-Henning Kamp writes: In message CABbxVHuQc0144==21mDa_R8ErKov=em+9rvrbpggexnzztj...@mail.gmail.co m , Chris Albertson writes: Yes. NTP calls it root distance [...] And it is generally useless, because people don't

[time-nuts] Airraft Ping Timing

2014-03-24 Thread J. Forster
According to a report on FOX, INMARSAT was able to determine the Malasia Air followed the southern traectory from the Dopplar of the pings. They verified their model by tracking other planes. -John = ___ time-nuts mailing list --

Re: [time-nuts] NIST time services

2014-03-24 Thread Harlan Stenn
Poul-Henning Kamp writes: In message e1wsboi-000dny...@stenn.ntp.org, Harlan Stenn writes: Poul-Henning Kamp writes: In message CABbxVHuQc0144==21mDa_R8ErKov=em+9rvrbpggexnzztj...@mail.gmail.com , Chris Albertson writes: Yes. NTP calls it root distance [...] And it is generally

Re: [time-nuts] Airraft Ping Timing

2014-03-24 Thread Chris Albertson
Yes, word is that they were able to determine the Doppler shift in the plane's signal. I'm surprised this was even recorded but it must have been in the satellite's telemetry downlink. Projecting radial velocity and constraining it to be close to the earth's surface, I guess determines one path

Re: [time-nuts] Airraft Ping Timing

2014-03-24 Thread Jim Lux
On 3/24/14 6:15 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: Yes, word is that they were able to determine the Doppler shift in the plane's signal. I'm surprised this was even recorded but it must have been in the satellite's telemetry downlink. Projecting radial velocity and constraining it to be close to the

[time-nuts] Interesting video....well done....

2014-03-24 Thread Brian, WA1ZMS
I found this to be a nice video for the non-Time Nut to try and understand what why about time.. http://knowmore.washingtonpost.com/2014/03/17/this-man-knows-what-time-it-is -but-not-what-time-is/ -Brian, WA1ZMS/4 ___ time-nuts mailing

[time-nuts] Hanging bridge question

2014-03-24 Thread Jim Miller
I've spent a good part of the afternoon looking at all the plots, websites and the few papers I could find mentioning the hanging bridge. As far as I can tell as long as one is correcting for sawtooth there's nothing additional to do about hanging bridges. They merely show up as funny waveforms

Re: [time-nuts] Hanging bridge question

2014-03-24 Thread Hal Murray
j...@jtmiller.com said: I've spent a good part of the afternoon looking at all the plots, websites and the few papers I could find mentioning the hanging bridge. As far as I can tell as long as one is correcting for sawtooth there's nothing additional to do about hanging bridges. They

[time-nuts] Airraft Ping Timing

2014-03-24 Thread Peter Gottlieb
This is how ELT locating satellites work (when not relaying the newer GPS data bursts). Several on another list I watch suggested this pretty early on and I guess INMARSAT got the message. I'd be curious to know if AFRCC pointed INMARSAT in that direction. Really shows the value of precise

Re: [time-nuts] Airraft Ping Timing

2014-03-24 Thread David McGaw
I am surprised it took them this long. A number of satellite telemetry systems can use doppler as a matter of course for locating transmitters, such as Iridium and Argos. David On 3/25/14 12:58 AM, Peter Gottlieb wrote: This is how ELT locating satellites work (when not relaying the newer