[time-nuts] FIRST AID WHEN YOU BUY AN HP5065A

2015-05-23 Thread timeok
Dear friends, The first HP5065A were produced around the late years 60. Over time some flaws, related to engineering and the choice of components, are highlighted. The main ones are the following: - The capacitors used primarily on power lines of +20 Volts tend to lose the liquid inside

[time-nuts] Price drop LUCENT/SYMMETRICOM Z3810AS, KS24361

2015-05-23 Thread M. George
I thought I would pass this along, the auction site seller of the LUCENT/SYMMETRICOM Z3810AS, KS24361 GPSDO's dropped the price by $25.00 The shipping is the same. Pretty amazing for shinny new old stock in the original unopened box No affiliation with the seller here, but I'm a happy buyer even

[time-nuts] IRIG-B audio decoder circuits and ICs sought

2015-05-23 Thread Joseph Gwinn
Responses interspersed below. Joe On Sat, 23 May 2015 11:54:53 -0400, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote: Today's Topics: 1. Re: IRIG-B audio decoder circuits and ICs sought (Tim Shoppa) 9. Re: IRIG-B audio decoder circuits and ICs sought (Esa Heikkinen) 15. Re: IRIG-B audio

[time-nuts] Lucent REF0-REF1 GPSDO status?

2015-05-23 Thread Jan Fredriksson
Hi list, I've been lurking around for several years off and on, followed some of the much discussed LUCENT/SYMMETRICOM Z3810AS, KS24361 L101/L102, HP-KIO OEM GPSDO. As you know they have been on fleabay for more than half a year are now, currently down to USD125 plus SH. Not bad for new out of

Re: [time-nuts] Divider circuit for Rubidium Standard

2015-05-23 Thread Charles Steinmetz
Bob wrote: The simple answer is that a biased fast CMOS gate will do a better job ADEV wise than your signal sources will. Maybe or maybe not, at tau ~1 second. Trouble is, as tau gets larger, the gate performs *worse*. The switching threshold of all MOSFET logic devices varies all over

Re: [time-nuts] Divider circuit for Rubidium Standard

2015-05-23 Thread Bob Camp
Hi On May 23, 2015, at 12:37 AM, Charles Steinmetz csteinm...@yandex.com wrote: Bob wrote: The simple answer is that a biased fast CMOS gate will do a better job ADEV wise than your signal sources will. Maybe or maybe not, at tau ~1 second. Trouble is, as tau gets larger, the gate

Re: [time-nuts] TymServe 2100 1995 Issue - A Kludgy Fix

2015-05-23 Thread Esa Heikkinen
descoubes kirjoitti: I am working for HEOL DESIGN company, and we are currently investigating this TS2100 1995 bug. We have developped the N024, a clone of Trimble ACE III receiver (which is mounted inside the TS2100). They are many issues with the TS2100-ACE III internal protocol, and we

Re: [time-nuts] Sine-square widget

2015-05-23 Thread Magnus Danielson
John, On 05/22/2015 10:35 PM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: Referencing the conversation about squaring circuits, I realized the T2-Mini board (intended as a tiny PIC-based PPS divider) can be repurposed into a very nice squarer. It has a slightly modified version of the Wenzel squarer and by

Re: [time-nuts] Divider circuit for Rubidium Standard

2015-05-23 Thread Bryan _
I was the OP and the reason for the whole exercise is to take a Rubidium standard that only outputs 1pps and modify for use as 10MHz. With some research there is a 20Mhz source onboard, issue is the sine is not very clean at 20MHz (60MHZ as well, much cleaner and may be worth inputting straight