Re: [time-nuts] Comparing the BeagleBone Black Raspberry Pi asNTP servers

2015-03-25 Thread Hal Murray
david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk said: I was really interested to see how much effect the extra Ethernet latency of the Raspberry Pi added in a real-world scenario. Thanks to Philip Gladstone, I have now discovered a way of significantly reducing that latency, so that the delay reported by NTP

Re: [time-nuts] Comparing the BeagleBone Black Raspberry Pi asNTP servers

2015-03-25 Thread David J Taylor
From: Hal Murray http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/RaspberryPi-notes.html#EthernetLatency Thanks for the tip. I did that to my R Pi and I see the same improvement in round trip time. What I don't understand is why the time offset as measured by an outside system didn't change. ??

Re: [time-nuts] Comparing the BeagleBone Black Raspberry Pi asNTP servers

2015-03-25 Thread Chris Albertson
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net wrote: What I don't understand is why the time offset as measured by an outside system didn't change. ?? NTP always and continuously measures the round trip time over the network and assumes the one-way time is 1/2 the

[time-nuts] Greenwich Timekeeping

2015-03-25 Thread Tom Van Baak
For those of you near London with an interest in Greenwich, Harrison, and pendulum clocks there's an event on April 18 that might be worth your time. Harrison Decoded: Towards a Perfect Pendulum Clock http://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/events/harrison-decoded

Re: [time-nuts] Obscure HP T/F instruments in ebay.fr

2015-03-25 Thread Adrian Godwin
The HP101A and 5275A arrived today. The 101A warmed up in about an hour and the crystal temp settled. It's now reading 98.50 against my 53131A (med. stability option but uncalibrated). I'm not sure what the spec is, or how long ago it was tuned - but even if it was set recently, it's still

Re: [time-nuts] Comparing the BeagleBone Black Raspberry Pi asNTP servers

2015-03-25 Thread Attila Kinali
On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 09:46:05 -0700 Chris Albertson albertson.ch...@gmail.com wrote: So if NTP always compensates for network delay why do you get improved performance with less delay? That is because what messes up NTP is uncertainly in the delay and likely it's the case that reducing the

Re: [time-nuts] Comparing the BeagleBone Black Raspberry Pi asNTP servers

2015-03-25 Thread Hal Murray
What I don't understand is why the time offset as measured by an outside system didn't change. ?? david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk said: Perhaps because NTP sees the offset in both send and receive packets and therefore, like any other network delay, it is subtracted out. The description of

[time-nuts] Lucent RFTG-m-XO failure to obtain GPS signal

2015-03-25 Thread Bill Hawkins
Have two of the late 90's Lucent L106B boxes. They are isolated except for power and GPS antenna connections. I've read the manual and the archived timenuts material that I can find with Google. My test equipment is limited to a counter and an oscilloscope. Have computers but no S/W. DVMs, of

[time-nuts] Sphere Research's annual Stuff Day is next week!

2015-03-25 Thread walter shawlee 2
Just a reminder, Sphere Research's annual Stuff Day is *next week*, April 3rd (friday) and April 4th (saturday), 9am to 4 pm. There will be (literally) tons of free stuff, plus some great test gear for dirt cheap prices. if you need more info, please look here on our webpage:

Re: [time-nuts] Lucent RFTG-m-XO failure to obtain GPS signal

2015-03-25 Thread Hal Murray
b...@iaxs.net said: Have computers but no S/W. Is there a way to tell what's going on without hacking it from the basic bits? Would really like to solve this problem. If it's anything like the other Lucent/HP boxes, the serial port talks ASCII. You should be able to talk to it with a

Re: [time-nuts] Greenwich Timekeeping

2015-03-25 Thread Tom Harris
The public exhibition for this conference Ships, Clocks and Stars: The Quest for Longitude is apparently coming to the colonies (Canada Australia) this year, so us colonials might get a chance to feast on the Harrison timepieces in all their glory. True clock p**n. Tom Harris