[time-nuts] Lady Heather Ver 5 Problem - full screen mode

2016-12-12 Thread Mark Sims
Ahhh, full screen mode... the demon mode from hell. On most modern systems with large monitors it crashed the program. It uses DirectDraw and if your DirectDraw implementation does not handle your monitor size, bye bye Heather. That means full screen mode (or clicking the MAXIMIZE button or

[time-nuts] Lady Heather Ver 5 Problem

2016-12-12 Thread Mark Sims
Microsoft recently pushed out a WIN10 update that broke DHCP and a few other networking features. It's affecting LARGE numbers of systems worldwide. The most common symptom is that you can no longer get to the internet since Windows can't find your router, but other more subtle glitches have

[time-nuts] LH "Life" readout

2016-12-12 Thread Mark Sims
Did you wait at least three hours for it to change? it's working fine on mine. It has X98_4-A firmware. --- > Lucent ref0 box working fine with LH. Question - Life readout on LH reads 17832 hours and does not advance. Life readout on Z3811.exe program reads 5943 hours and

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Ver 5 Problem

2016-12-12 Thread Richard W. Solomon
As I e-mailed earlier, the cause was ticking the wrong shortcut. Once I ticked the right one, it opened up. NOW, how does one get it to run in full screen mode. I tried the /f tag but it did not work. Any ideas ? Thanks, Dick, W1KSZ -Original Message- From: time-nuts

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Ver 5 Problem

2016-12-12 Thread Orin Eman
For a little more detail see WSA_NODATA here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms740668(v=vs.85).aspx The explanation is rather difficult to parse. It seems it's indicating that an MX record was found (somewhere you could send email) but no A record (a server you could

[time-nuts] HP 58503A chassis part needed

2016-12-12 Thread Stan
Hello, I'm in the process of restoring my 58503A. In the process of disassembling it, the rear plastic frame that is held to the back panel with the two T15 Torx screws had become brittle with age and it cracked into several pieces as I was removing it. It will be difficult to get all of the

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Ver 5 Problem

2016-12-12 Thread John Miles
The error message in question came from the IPCONN::connect() method in ipconn.cpp. That particular code (11004) is returned by gethostbyname() when it fails to resolve a DNS name. Normally, when Heather tries to connect to the test server, gethostbyname() is used to turn "ke5fx.dyndns.org"

[time-nuts] Lady Heather Ver 5 Problem

2016-12-12 Thread Mark Sims
I grep'd all the source code and there is no 11004 anywhere in the program... > ke5fx.dyndns.org not found (code 11004) ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Ver 5 Problem

2016-12-12 Thread John Miles
Hmm, no, that shouldn't affect anything. Sounds like a DNS issue of some kind, presumably (but not necessarily) at your end. Try again? -- john, KE5FX Miles Design LLC > -Original Message- > From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of > Richard W. Solomon > Sent:

Re: [time-nuts] Austron 2010B Manual.

2016-12-12 Thread Charles Steinmetz
Bob wrote: I found my Austron manuals CD last night while cleaning up the ham shack. I'll send a copy tonight. Bob, perhaps you could also upload the 2010B manual (and any other Austron manuals you have that are not currently in circulation) to Didier's site:

Re: [time-nuts] Time math libraries

2016-12-12 Thread timenut
Eric, I speak as someone who has implemented many calendrical packages. I have always tried to achieve the maximum degree of generality, and have considered the issues with leap seconds on more than one occassion. The first problem with leap seconds is that you need a list of them, and that list

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-12 Thread Alberto di Bene
On 12/12/2016 7:38 PM, Azelio Boriani wrote: Maybe that the "Start In" field in the Properties Panel must be set if windows is not in US language mode. When windows is italian, for example, the Program Files folder becomes Programmi. Azelio, none of my PCs is set for Italian languages...

[time-nuts] LH "Life" readout

2016-12-12 Thread Bill Riches
Lucent ref0 box working fine with LH. Question - Life readout on LH reads 17832 hours and does not advance. Life readout on Z3811.exe program reads 5943 hours and advances. Is the life readout available for the Lucent box? 73, Bill, WA2DVU ___

Re: [time-nuts] OT: ExpressPCB (cross-post from volts-nuts)

2016-12-12 Thread Chris Albertson
Lowest price I've found is BasicPCB.com They charge $3 per square inch for 2 layers with mask and legend. Minimum is three boards of 1 square inch. So you actually can place a $9 order with them. They are a USA based company. They accept standard Gerber files. This is very imported as a

Re: [time-nuts] Austron 2010B Manual.

2016-12-12 Thread Bob Darlington
OH YEAH! I found my Austron manuals CD last night while cleaning up the ham shack. I'll send a copy tonight. -Bob On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Angus wrote: > Hi, > > I know this has been asked about a few times over the years, but I've > not been able to find any

Re: [time-nuts] Austron 2010B Manual.

2016-12-12 Thread Bob Darlington
And like a fool, I sent this to the list. Angus, ping me direct with your address and I'll send you my CD. -Bob On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Bob Darlington wrote: > OH YEAH! > > I found my Austron manuals CD last night while cleaning up the ham shack. > I'll send

[time-nuts] Austron 2010B Manual.

2016-12-12 Thread Angus
Hi, I know this has been asked about a few times over the years, but I've not been able to find any user or service manuals for an Austron 2010B to download anywhere - anyone know of any? Thanks, Angus. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com

[time-nuts] Lady Heather Ver 5 Problem

2016-12-12 Thread Richard W. Solomon
I installed LH Ver 5 and when I try to open it I get an error message: ke5fx.dyndns.org not found (code 11004) Was I supposed to install it in the old LH Folder ? Thanks, Dick, W1KSZ ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-12 Thread Azelio Boriani
Maybe that the "Start In" field in the Properties Panel must be set if windows is not in US language mode. When windows is italian, for example, the Program Files folder becomes Programmi. On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 9:53 AM, David J Taylor wrote: > Hello Mark, > >

Re: [time-nuts] Time math libraries

2016-12-12 Thread Tim Shoppa
I have had some success with Perl DateTime CPAN module's support for leap seconds - doing time delta math without using Unix Epoch Seconds properly handles leap seconds. Converting back and forth to Unix Epoch time works as well as it can (given non uniqueness). It also supports the concept of a

[time-nuts] Time math libraries

2016-12-12 Thread Eric Scace
(Apologies if this question has been addressed before. Archive search is rather cumbersome on a month-by-month basis.) Few people will be surprised to learn that MS Excel does not account for leap seconds when doing time math. See below for an example. This is just an example of many

Re: [time-nuts] OT: 4-way amplfied GPS splitter wanted - UK source?

2016-12-12 Thread Peter Vince
Hi David, Yes, I have one you can have - I'll contact you off list. Regards, Peter (Surrey) On 12 December 2016 at 15:29, David J Taylor wrote: > Perhaps this is not too off-topic for the moderators? > > I'm looking for a 4-way

[time-nuts] rxx question

2016-12-12 Thread Mark Sims
The /rxx command says to run without a receiver. It turns Heather into a glorified system clock display. Use /rxk for the Lucent. Also your time zone command is wrong. Use /tz=EST5EDT or /tz=-5EST/EDT The life time is shown near the middle of the screen as part of the

[time-nuts] rxx question

2016-12-12 Thread Bill Riches
LH works great with my lucent REF0 box. I am using string /4 /vs /tz=5. When I enter /rxx=17 it corrects leap second but the screen changes from all of the data to just to clock info full screen. How do I get the full data info back? Is it possible to read the total life operating time

[time-nuts] OT: 4-way amplfied GPS splitter wanted - UK source?

2016-12-12 Thread David J Taylor
Perhaps this is not too off-topic for the moderators? I'm looking for a 4-way (or more) amplified GPS splitter, with N-type connections. Yes, I can see some on eBay but they all seem to be US sourced with rather large postage charges. I'm wondering whether anyone in the UK might have one

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-12 Thread David J Taylor
Hello Mark, many thanks for your immense and invaluable work! I am using the trimble thunderbold together with LH version 3 all the last years with success, I like your program very much. I downloaded and installed today the version 5, but I have some problems because it looks like my windows 7