[time-nuts] yesterday's European Loran-C shutdown

2016-01-01 Thread Pieter-Tjerk de Boer
Yesterday I made an SDR recording of the LW/MW spectrum to capture the shutdown of the European LORAN-C stations. An analysis of that recording is now available at http://pa3fwm.nl/signals/loran-2015/ . Regards, Pieter-Tjerk, PA3FWM ___ time-nuts

[time-nuts] Europe VLF almost without Loran-C

2016-01-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
I spent an hour with the HP8568B to document the time-relevant signals left in VLF: http://phk.freebsd.dk/hacks/20151231_end_of_nels/index.html -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since

Re: [time-nuts] beaglebone black, debian, NTP client

2016-01-01 Thread Attila Kinali
On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 17:27:40 -0800 jimlux wrote: > Has anyone fooled with using NTP on a beaglebone black running Debian > (the beagleboard.org image)? > > I assume it's just a matter of turning on ntpd (which I'm not sure is > even installed) and/or running ntpdate (I'm

[time-nuts] Public lecture on atomic and optical clocks

2016-01-01 Thread Ole Petter Ronningen
Hello There is a relatively recent (november 2015) public lecture by David Wineland on Youtube, titled "Keeping Better Time: The Era of Optical Atomic Clocks". I thought it an interesting, clear overview for the non-expert. Link: https://youtu.be/LxbkyuzXst4 I searched the archives, but could

Re: [time-nuts] beaglebone black, debian, NTP client

2016-01-01 Thread David J Taylor
Has anyone fooled with using NTP on a beaglebone black running Debian (the beagleboard.org image)? I assume it's just a matter of turning on ntpd (which I'm not sure is even installed) and/or running ntpdate (I'm not looking for super accuracy.. it's for a sprinkler timer)

Re: [time-nuts] eLORAN will be on the air

2016-01-01 Thread wb6bnq
A whole year ago ? ? ? ? ? paul swed wrote: The Wildwood, NJ eLoran transmitter will be continuously broadcasting from 0900 (EST) on 05 January 2015 through 1500 (EST) on 15 January 2015. Wildwood will be broadcasting as 8970 Master and Secondary most of the time but occasionally may operate

Re: [time-nuts] Gregorian Calendar

2016-01-01 Thread lstoskopf
OK, not to the precision this group uses, but interesting: "https://www.stratfor.com/analysis/geopolitics-gregorian-calendar;>The Geopolitics of the Gregorian Calendar is republished with permission of Stratfor." https://www.stratfor.com/analysis/geopolitics-gregorian-calendar N0UU