Re: [time-nuts] comparing two clocks

2014-02-22 Thread Bob Stewart
Hi Jimmy, Someone touched on the idea of using a scope.  Go to the Agilent site and download a copy of the 10811 manual, 10811-90002.pdf.  Section 3 describes how to adjust the 10811 and gives info on how to time the phase drift to calculate the frequency error.  You can pull the time base out

[time-nuts] Thermal Compensation: Digital vs Analog

2014-02-26 Thread Bob Stewart
I've been experimenting with digital thermal compensation on my GPSDO.  The results have been favorable for a 14 bit dithered PWM-based DAC, but leaves a bit to be desired in the big picture.  And it takes up a lot of program bytes on my PIC..  What's the general consensus on this?  Should

Re: [time-nuts] Thermal Compensation: Digital vs Analog

2014-02-26 Thread Bob Stewart
From: Attila Kinali att...@kinali.ch To: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 10:23 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Thermal Compensation: Digital vs Analog On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 08

Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO with all-digital phase/time measurement?

2014-02-26 Thread Bob Stewart
Hi Mark, I'm neither an engineer, nor an expert, but here are my comments.  I think that the idea of 100ns/T is wrong.  There are several variables that control accuracy, but the time between pulses from your OCXO (assuming no phase or frequency drift) isn't one of them.  So, that gives 1/T. 

Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO with all-digital phase/time measurement?

2014-02-26 Thread Bob Stewart
Tom, I took his 100ns figure to be simply the period of 10MHz.  He mentioned using an interrupt driven system, so the counts should not necessarily be limited to 100ns accuracy.  At least on the PIC I'm using, the CCP and timer interrupts don't seem to be synchronous with the PIC clock.  I

Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO with all-digital phase/time measurement?

2014-02-27 Thread Bob Stewart
this as an interrupt function, but after looking at the manual, it's a matter of switchable dedicated hardware.  Sorry for the bad info. Bob From: Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net To: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time

Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO with all-digital phase/time measurement?

2014-02-27 Thread Bob Stewart
on your 1PPS pulse. Bob From: Alexander Pummer alex...@ieee.org To: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 7:42 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO with all-digital phase

Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO with all-digital phase/time measurement?

2014-02-28 Thread Bob Stewart
Hi Charles, The problem is that the only information available is the fact that a phase crossing occurred and whether there were more than 10M counts (or less) since the last PPS.  The phase error value is not available to me, nor is the sawtooth value; which would of course be of no value. 

Re: [time-nuts] Another atomic clock question

2014-03-03 Thread Bob Stewart
Tom, That's a pretty interesting idea.  It makes me wonder if it would be worth it to switch perhaps a 1/2W heat source (random number) off and on over the XO in the UT+ say every minute or so. Bob From: Tom Van Baak t...@leapsecond.com To: Discussion of

Re: [time-nuts] Another atomic clock question

2014-03-04 Thread Bob Stewart
I suggested yesterday to periodically heat and cool the oscillator, but my post may have been lost in the noise. Bob From: Didier Juges shali...@gmail.com To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Tuesday, March 4,

Re: [time-nuts] Another atomic clock question

2014-03-04 Thread Bob Stewart
Hi Tom, You may have missed TVB's post yesterday, quoted below.  A hanging bridge is an area on a timing receiver's plotted sawtooth correction value that stays on one side of phase zero for some period of time.  As a result of this bias, a GPSDO that is not corrected for sawtooth will

[time-nuts] New TIC test run

2014-03-08 Thread Bob Stewart
I put my TIC to hardware, and have started testing it.  Here is a sample run comparing it against the 5334B with an off frequency OCXO.  I've scaled and rotated to tried to cancel out the length of the cables to the 5334B.  Still early days with it, yet.

Re: [time-nuts] New TIC test run

2014-03-09 Thread Bob Stewart
at the precision of this thing.  It's like taking the 5334B and adjusting the focus knob.  Of course it's not as accurate, due to the way it works, but it will fit my needs well in my GPSDO. Bob - AE6RV From: Anders Wallin anders.e.e.wal...@gmail.com To: Bob Stewart b

Re: [time-nuts] New TIC test run

2014-03-09 Thread Bob Stewart
The link seems garbled for some reason with it inline so let me try again. http://www.evoria.net/AE6RV/TIC/TIC2.bmp From: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Sunday, March 9, 2014 10

[time-nuts] Modeling vs reality question re my TIC

2014-03-10 Thread Bob Stewart
Fellow Timenuts: I'm trying to square reality with the modeling that I did, and nothing makes sense.  When I modeled the result of just my 2.4K resistor with the caps and resistor the PIC datasheet says it has in it, there's no relationship.  The model says I'll get millivolts out.  Here's

Re: [time-nuts] Modeling vs reality question re my TIC

2014-03-10 Thread Bob Stewart
is listed as 120pf.  Here is a screenshot of the relevant page. http://www.evoria.net/AE6RV/TIC/ADC.png Bob From: Chris Albertson albertson.ch...@gmail.com To: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts

Re: [time-nuts] Modeling vs reality question re my TIC

2014-03-10 Thread Bob Stewart
to be argumentative, I'm just trying hard to understand. http://www.evoria.net/AE6RV/TIC/ChargeRamp.png Bob From: Bruce Griffiths bruce.griffi...@xtra.co.nz To: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com

Re: [time-nuts] Modeling vs reality question re my TIC

2014-03-10 Thread Bob Stewart
is a good problem to have and not a bad one.  I'm sending a board to a friend soon, and if the results repeat for him, it's not just a fluke. Bob From: Bruce Griffiths bruce.griffi...@xtra.co.nz To: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net; Discussion of precise time

[time-nuts] PLL Math Question

2014-03-12 Thread Bob Stewart
Now that I've got the TIC going, I'm working on the PLL math for my GPSDO.  My question is about moving averages.  I've put in a moving average for the TIC.  From that, I've calculated the slope, and have put a moving average on the slope to settle it down.  I think this boils down to a moving

Re: [time-nuts] PLL Math Question

2014-03-12 Thread Bob Stewart
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 12:51 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] PLL Math Question Bob, On 12/03/14 18:24, Bob Stewart wrote: Now that I've got the TIC going, I'm working on the PLL math for my GPSDO.  My question is about moving averages.  I've put in a moving average for the TIC.  From

Re: [time-nuts] PLL Math Question

2014-03-12 Thread Bob Stewart
Hi Hal, In the moving averages I'm doing, I'm saving the last bit to be shifted out and if it's a 1 (i.e. 0.5) I increase the result by 1. Bob From: Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement

Re: [time-nuts] PLL Math Question

2014-03-12 Thread Bob Stewart
x_avg = x_avg + (x - x_avg) * a_avg; Hi again Magnus, In fact, I just post-processed some data using that formula in perl.  It looks great, and will indeed save me code and memory space.  And, it can be a user variable, rather than hard-coded.  Thanks for the heads up! Bob

Re: [time-nuts] PLL Math Question

2014-03-12 Thread Bob Stewart
. averaging way too long  If not, maybe there will be a good gain value that will be convenient to code the exponential average. Thanks for the help, Bob From: Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net To: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net; Discussion of precise time

Re: [time-nuts] PLL Math Question

2014-03-12 Thread Bob Stewart
Hi Daniel, re: FIR vs IIR I'm not a DSP professional, though I do have an old Smiths, and I've read some of it.  So, could you give me some idea what the FIR vs IIR question means on a practical level for this application?  I can see that the MA is effective and easy to code, but takes up

Re: [time-nuts] PLL Math Question

2014-03-13 Thread Bob Stewart
Hi Jim, Thanks for your thoughts.  Perhaps there are a few things that I know about my particular system that have been discounted.  I have mentioned them in passing, but haven't collected them coherently for this thread.  It's an 8-bit PIC, thus floating point calculations have to be

Re: [time-nuts] PLL Math Question

2014-03-13 Thread Bob Stewart
Dennis, I just realized that I could do the math in sixteenths.  So, for 7/16ths multiply by 7 before shifting(i.e. dividing) and rounding.  That would probably give enough granularity.  I'll have to think about it.  It does open new doors. thanks, Bob

Re: [time-nuts] PLL Math Question

2014-03-13 Thread Bob Stewart
. This has been most informative and certainly gives me more options. Bob From: Chris Albertson albertson.ch...@gmail.com To: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 5:42

[time-nuts] Nav Receiver Sawtooth Correction?

2014-03-21 Thread Bob Stewart
I've gotten my PLL mostly working, but, since I'm using a nav receiver, it looks like I may want to see if I can do a poor-man's sawtooth correction based on GPS position changes.  Has anyone done this or have a reference for a project that has?  It would seem to me that only the East-West

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

2014-03-23 Thread Bob Stewart
Hi Ignacio, 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 the

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

2014-03-23 Thread Bob Stewart
://www.evoria.net/AE6RV/Nav/NavWander.png Bob From: Chris Albertson albertson.ch...@gmail.com To: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2014 9:24 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts

[time-nuts] RC TIC linearity correction?

2014-03-25 Thread Bob Stewart
I hadn't given any thought to correcting the linearity of the TIC I built, but my PLL plots tell me I should do it now.  Explanation: when I arrange things so that the phase point is near the top of my TIC's range, it requires a smaller movement than when the phase point is in the middle: 

Re: [time-nuts] RC TIC linearity correction?

2014-03-26 Thread Bob Stewart
Thanks Charles.  That makes sense, but at the expense of adding unwanted complexity.  As I've been moving the setpoint around this morning, I think I see a way to characterize what it's doing.  Maybe I can come up with a small correction table or formula that's good enough for my purposes. Bob

Re: [time-nuts] RC TIC linearity correction?

2014-03-26 Thread Bob Stewart
.  I don't have any sort of phase wrapping code, though, so I have to be careful how close to a phase point I get. Bob From: Chris Albertson albertson.ch...@gmail.com To: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time

Re: [time-nuts] RC TIC linearity correction?

2014-03-26 Thread Bob Stewart
albertson.ch...@gmail.com To: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 11:25 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] RC TIC linearity correction? Yes a lookup table would be easy.  But how to create the table

Re: [time-nuts] FEI-5660 Rubidium Oscillator

2014-03-28 Thread Bob Stewart
What about the other side of audio-phoolery: audio FFT?  I'm thinking more along the lines of an ARRL FMT. From: Tom Van Baak t...@leapsecond.com To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2014 6:10

Re: [time-nuts] First success with very simple, very low cost GPSDO, under $8

2014-04-09 Thread Bob Stewart
To further Brian's comment: you have to keep in mind that the interrupt routine interrupts the mainline code, and not the other way around.  So, you set a semaphore in your mainline code and your interrupt routine checks to see if that's set when it starts, or at least before it uses any

Re: [time-nuts] First success with very simple, very low cost GPSDO, under $8

2014-04-09 Thread Bob Stewart
Have you considered reading the timer only at PPS?  You don't need to keep track of the actual count.  You just need to keep track of the difference between counts at each PPS.  Resolution isn't a problem since the difference in the lower 16 bits is a fixed number for your purpose.  IOW,

[time-nuts] Adafruit (MT3339) problems today

2014-04-10 Thread Bob Stewart
My Adafruit has gone walkabout again.  This is a different unit than the one I spoke about some months ago.  It's been about 150 ft from my actual location, which has, of course, made a mess of my GPSDO.  Well, at least it verified my unlock code.  I did a POR and it seemed to come home, but

Re: [time-nuts] Adafruit (MT3339) problems today

2014-04-10 Thread Bob Stewart
stability as well. On Apr 10, 2014 5:51 PM, Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net wrote: My Adafruit has gone walkabout again.  This is a different unit than the one I spoke about some months ago.  It's been about 150 ft from my actual location, which has, of course, made a mess of my GPSDO.  Well

Re: [time-nuts] First success with very simple, very low cost GPSDO

2014-04-10 Thread Bob Stewart
FWIW, I set the DAC to midpoint and use a binary search to get to frequency.  On my system, I start off with a change of 0x80 and work my way down to 0x04 in powers of 2 (0x80, 0x40, 0x20, etc).  Once I get to 256 seconds between DAC changes, I light the PLL fuse.  I could probably get away

Re: [time-nuts] First success with very simple, very low cost GPSDO

2014-04-10 Thread Bob Stewart
, then it drifts off, your PLL stops, and you wait till you drift back to the phase point.  Rinse, repeat, fail.  But, it's always possible that you can see something in the data that I didn't. Bob From: Chris Albertson albertson.ch...@gmail.com To: Bob Stewart b

Re: [time-nuts] First success with very simple, very low cost GPSDO

2014-04-10 Thread Bob Stewart
on one side and it's now gone to center, a bridge on the other side, or back to a sawtooth that averages to zero.  That's probably still pretty poorly said, but it's way past my bedtime. Bob From: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net To: Discussion of precise time

Re: [time-nuts] Adafruit (MT3339) problems today

2014-04-11 Thread Bob Stewart
(MT3339) problems today On 10/04/14 23:48, Bob Stewart wrote: My Adafruit has gone walkabout again.  This is a different unit than the one I spoke about some months ago.  It's been about 150 ft from my actual location, which has, of course, made a mess of my GPSDO.  Well, at least it verified my

[time-nuts] NTP and Oncore UT+

2014-04-19 Thread Bob Stewart
I've done as much as I can do with my little Adafruit, so I guess it's time to move to a timing receiver.  I already have a UT+, so I might as well make use of it.  My thought was to use the NTP refclock driver and probably take the sawtooth from SHMEM with a simple C program to pass to my

Re: [time-nuts] NTP and Oncore UT+

2014-04-19 Thread Bob Stewart
the secret handshake.  Writing the software to extract the sawtooth is no big deal.  It has version 2.2 of the firmware. Bob From: Bob Camp li...@rtty.us To: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com

Re: [time-nuts] NTP and Oncore UT+

2014-04-19 Thread Bob Stewart
have the right document. Bob From: Bob Camp li...@rtty.us To: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2014 7:03 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] NTP and Oncore UT+ Hi

Re: [time-nuts] NTP and Oncore UT+

2014-04-19 Thread Bob Stewart
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2014 9:36 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] NTP and Oncore UT+ On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net wrote: Somehow I missed that page in all the times I looked through the Oncore

Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO and holdover

2014-04-22 Thread Bob Stewart
of holdover. Lastly, you get to choose between it being an ideal time standard vs. an ideal frequency standard. /tvb p.s. Please fix your address book. The correct email for the list is time-nuts@febo.com - Original Message - From: Bob Stewart To: time-nuts-ow...@febo.com Sent: Tuesday

Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO and holdover

2014-04-26 Thread Bob Stewart
I mentioned to Tom that I had seen the xgps program duplicate a lot of its satellites when I missed a PPS.  I noticed my GPSDO go into holdover so I quickly brought up xgsp and noticed it happening again.  This screen showed a few times intermixed with a normal screen.  I have no idea whether

Re: [time-nuts] New timing receivers?

2014-04-26 Thread Bob Stewart
Given the state of the GPS chip, would it really take that big an investment to just add in the firmware to do timing?  Or have the manufacturers just made a marketing decision to keep that a high end market as long as they can? Bob From: Bob Camp

[time-nuts] 3339 Interface for Linux? - was New timing receivers?

2014-04-28 Thread Bob Stewart
I was wondering if anyone has a decent interface to the Adafruit and related receivers for Linux?  By that, i mean something like the Windows tools that Globaltop provides, or even just the ability to separate out the responses to the PMTK commands from the NMEA traffic. Bob - AE6RV

Re: [time-nuts] New timing receivers?

2014-05-05 Thread Bob Stewart
Tom, Any progress on the Adafruit PPS study? (Hope this isn't a dupe.  Yahoo's mail scripts have problems today.) Bob From: Tom Van Baak t...@leapsecond.com To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Monday, April 28,

[time-nuts] PIC Programmer for Piklab in Linux?

2014-05-14 Thread Bob Stewart
Can anyone suggest a PIC programmer that will work with Piklab on Linux?  The replacement serial board I just bought won't drive my JDM Classic PIC programmer.  It doesn't reliably drive my LIRC IR transmitter either, so I have to devote the serial port on my motherboard to LIRC.  My GPSDO

Re: [time-nuts] PIC Programmer for Piklab in Linux?

2014-05-14 Thread Bob Stewart
I neglected to mention that I'm pretty much limited to USB or ethernet (if such a programmer exists) at this point. Bob From: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Wednesday, May 14

Re: [time-nuts] PIC Programmer for Piklab in Linux?

2014-05-18 Thread Bob Stewart
Hi Rudolf, The Pickit2 configuration choices were a bit confusing, so I decided to order a different serial board that contains actual 16550s. Now that I've had a chance to assimilate what I've learned, the problem is traced to the 3 Volt 3243 chips that are in today's serial boards.  After

Re: [time-nuts] New tide gauge uses GPS signals to measure sea level change

2014-05-28 Thread Bob Stewart
Hal, you bring up an interesting point:  Is the receiver in a Z3801 inherently more accurate in position reporting than the receiver in an Adafruit?  Somehow I doubt it, if for no other reason than the improvements in technology.  (Excluding any programming errors that may or may not exist in

[time-nuts] Audio DAC for GPSDO?

2014-06-02 Thread Bob Stewart
Now that my TIC is working with Bert's board, I'm considering taking the next step of designing a GPSDO from scratch.  There are several projects I'd like to do with a dsPIC33, so that was a natural choice.  But I now understand that it has an audio DAC and is not recommended for process

Re: [time-nuts] Audio DAC for GPSDO?

2014-06-02 Thread Bob Stewart
they call the DAC default register a safety feature for industrial control applications, and then a few inches later a black box warns that it's not recommended for control type applications.  Bob From: Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk To: Bob Stewart b

Re: [time-nuts] Audio DAC for GPSDO?

2014-06-02 Thread Bob Stewart
some of the same issues. Even some pretty fancy outboard ADC’s only work well at DC if you put a chopper around them. Bob On Jun 2, 2014, at 7:22 PM, Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net wrote: Hi Poul, I've been reviewing microchips literature and the way I read it is that the DAC isn't sensitive

Re: [time-nuts] CGSIC: Known Problem With Certain GPS Devices

2014-06-05 Thread Bob Stewart
There was a recent discussion with the above subject line about SVN-64.  I've noticed that my Adafruit hasn't given me any holdovers for a few days, so I checked on the sat's status.  The link below says it's been usable since May30.  Hmmm. http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/?Do=gpsShowNanunum=2014047

[time-nuts] dsPICs and GPSDOs

2014-06-20 Thread Bob Stewart
Once I got my TIC going, I suppose it was inevitable that I build a GPSDO with a dsPIC33.  I have a few dsPIC specific questions for anyone who designs with them. 1. VCAP.  The datasheet says that it should be a surface mount device.  I had hoped to avoid those.  Can I get away with a 10uf

[time-nuts] GPSDO standard interface?

2014-06-25 Thread Bob Stewart
In an offline communication, I suddenly realized that I hadn't given any thought to the user interface for my GPSDO.  Is there an accepted standard interface for GPSDOs, or is that a murky Microsoft-esque world of patents and lawyers? Bob - AE6RV

Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO standard interface?

2014-06-25 Thread Bob Stewart
. Bob From: bownes bow...@gmail.com To: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 7:35 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO standard interface? Well, I built one

Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO standard interface?

2014-06-25 Thread Bob Stewart
- From: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 5:10 PM Subject: [time-nuts] GPSDO standard interface? In an offline communication, I suddenly realized that I hadn't given any thought to the user interface

Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO standard interface?

2014-06-26 Thread Bob Stewart
Hi Mark, Thanks for the response.  I'll take a look at heathgps.cpp.  I had hoped not to have to actually look through code to divine an interface, but if that's the way it is, then OK.  I am planning on the output of at least position, corrected phase error, DAC value, ambient temperature,

Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO standard interface?

2014-06-26 Thread Bob Stewart
Perhaps the misunderstanding happened when I mentioned two UARTs and two tty interfaces.  Using a standard  tty interface has nothing to do with how it gets to the monitor hardware once it leaves the board.  It's the same physical interface that's used by the receiver boards; whether Adafruit,

Re: [time-nuts] Loran, GPS, Lightning, Timing

2014-06-27 Thread Bob Stewart
You might be thinking of the file that David Byrne sent  to the HP list last year on 9/7/13.  It was an article by C. L. Stong and I think it was published in The Amateur Scientist in 1963.  You should be able to find it in the HP list archives. Bob From:

[time-nuts] Magnetic Resonance Spectromater; was Re: Loran, GPS, Lightning, Timing

2014-06-28 Thread Bob Stewart
There's an interesting (and on topic) project in that book starting on page 335, discussing a home-made Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer.  I wonder if any time-nuts have constructed such a device, and what potential accuracy it would have? Bob - AE6RV From:

Re: [time-nuts] FASTRAX GPS

2014-07-01 Thread Bob Stewart
Jim, Are you trying to find out how to hook up a receiver in your office/radio room to an antenna that is some ways away?  Or are you specifically trying to remotely hook up a receiver near your antenna?  If the former, just use RG-6, like for cable TV, with adapters on each end.  RG-6 has

Re: [time-nuts] FASTRAX GPS

2014-07-02 Thread Bob Stewart
the systems gpio and serial ports attached? Thanks to you both for answering. jim On 7/1/2014 9:30 PM, Bob Stewart wrote: Jim, Are you trying to find out how to hook up a receiver in your office/radio room to an antenna that is some ways away?  Or are you specifically trying to remotely

[time-nuts] Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer - redux

2014-07-05 Thread Bob Stewart
First, an apology.  When I changed the topic on my original post, I thought that would be OK.  Apparently that's still a thread-jacking.  Sorry. I'm still interested in this Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer thing, though.  On page 335 of the pdf linked below by Dave, there's an experiment with

Re: [time-nuts] Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer - redux

2014-07-06 Thread Bob Stewart
Thanks Brooke.  I'll look into it.  It would be interesting to try to develop a frequency standard from a test tube of water.  Bob From: Brooke Clarke bro...@pacific.net To: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement

Re: [time-nuts] FASTTRAX GPS Antenna power

2014-07-10 Thread Bob Stewart
I'm a bit confused about what you're asking.  You discuss antennas but you show pictures of a GPS receiver.  They're not the same thing.  I use a puck antenna.  They cost about $6 on ebay, and take their power from the coax.  Normally your GPS receiver supplies power to the coax, so you don't

Re: [time-nuts] Setting Windows XP clock.

2014-07-12 Thread Bob Stewart
Have you looked into NTP for Windows? Bob From: Max Robinson m...@maxsmusicplace.com To: Time Nuts time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2014 6:29 PM Subject: [time-nuts] Setting Windows XP clock. As some of you no doubt know microshaft has stopped

[time-nuts] Synergy-GPS SSR-6tru problems

2014-07-15 Thread Bob Stewart
I got one of these recently, along with the adapter board.  This is the ublox only version, and I am using u-center version 8.11 software.  I am unable to make it work properly.  The NMEA section happily sends out messages, but I cannot get anything else to work.  e.g. it ignores the commands

Re: [time-nuts] Synergy-GPS SSR-6tru problems

2014-07-15 Thread Bob Stewart
experienced problems. Bob From: Art Sepin a...@synergy-gps.com To: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 5:58 PM Subject: RE: [time-nuts] Synergy-GPS SSR-6tru problems Bob

Re: [time-nuts] Synergy-GPS SSR-6tru problems

2014-07-16 Thread Bob Stewart
us exactly what you are plugging it into and through what signal path you are issuing the commands. On 7/15/2014 2:36 PM, Bob Stewart wrote: I got one of these recently, along with the adapter board.  This is the ublox only version, and I am using u-center version 8.11 software.  I am unable

Re: [time-nuts] Synergy-GPS SSR-6tru problems

2014-07-16 Thread Bob Stewart
From: Dennis Ferguson dennis.c.fergu...@gmail.com To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Cc: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 11:46 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Synergy-GPS SSR-6tru problems On 15 Jul, 2014, at 16:32 , Bob Stewart b

Re: [time-nuts] Synergy-GPS SSR-6tru problems

2014-07-16 Thread Bob Stewart
at 2:54 PM, Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net wrote: I fooled around with PUBX 41, and can't get the board to respond. I had some problems but that's because they sent the wrong configuration (a 16062133G).  What's the part number? Assuming it hasn't changed a TRu is 16062152G. I don't have the ability

Re: [time-nuts] Synergy-GPS SSR-6tru Problem Resolved

2014-07-23 Thread Bob Stewart
As a reminder, I received an SSR-6tru receiver from Synergy, along with their M12 adapter, which allows you to plug it into a slot for an Oncore GT+, UT+, or VP.  I was unable to get the receiver to respond to any commands from the u-blox u-center software. After a lot of troubleshooting, I

Re: [time-nuts] Synergy-GPS SSR-6tru Problem Resolved

2014-07-24 Thread Bob Stewart
today. /tvb - Original Message - From: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net To: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 3:19 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Synergy-GPS SSR-6tru Problem Resolved As a reminder

Re: [time-nuts] Synergy-GPS SSR-6tru Problem Resolved

2014-07-25 Thread Bob Stewart
was talking about.  A real class act all around! Bob - AE6RV From: Art Sepin a...@synergy-gps.com To: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Cc: Tom Van Baak t...@leapsecond.com; Dusty Morris doxielove

[time-nuts] Effects of noise on EFC line?

2014-08-05 Thread Bob Stewart
I've run into a noise problem on the EFC line of my GPSDO engine at the frequency of the oscillator.  I've traced the source down to the 74HCT365 I'm using to output the 1(or 5)MHz and 10MHz signals.  When I pull it, the EFC quietens down a lot.  I'm seeing about 50mv of 10MHz noise at the

Re: [time-nuts] Effects of noise on EFC line? - Resolved

2014-08-06 Thread Bob Stewart
with an X10 probe. Bob From: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net To: Time Nuts time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Tuesday, August 5, 2014 1:36 PM Subject: [time-nuts] Effects of noise on EFC line? I've run into a noise problem on the EFC line of my GPSDO engine

Re: [time-nuts] Low noise powersupplies

2014-08-07 Thread Bob Stewart
What about a PC sound card? From: Alexander Pummer alex...@ieee.org To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2014 5:06 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Low noise powersupplies to measure a power supply

Re: [time-nuts] Effects of noise on EFC line? - Resolved

2014-08-07 Thread Bob Stewart
Hi Bob, I hadn't even considered a filter in the OCXO.  This isn't a 10811, but that's the OCXO I have a schematic of, so I'll assume that's the benchmark.  Following the EFC in, it looks like it goes to a 100K resistor and then tees to the 100pf varicap and a 15pf to the xtal.  Other caps are

Re: [time-nuts] EFC info on Trimble 34310-T OXCO

2014-08-22 Thread Bob Stewart
I've been using one for over a year.  They take 12V to power, and they have a VRef output around +6.25V, which implies an EFC range of 0-6V.  Unless you get one that's aged out, an EFC range of 0-5V should be fine.  The VRef has a bit of 10MHz on it on mine.  All in all, it seems to be a good

[time-nuts] Practical Survey-In Accuracy?

2014-08-23 Thread Bob Stewart
I've had the LEA-6T sitting in survey-in mode for about 17 hours, and at this point, the u-center software says that the Mean 3D Std Dev is 0.109 meters.  Given that my antenna is just a puck at the peak of the attic (never got around to adding the DIY choke-ring), has this reached the silly

Re: [time-nuts] LEA-6T Software.

2014-08-25 Thread Bob Stewart
Hi Dan, I think you're looking for the u-center software.  Finding software on that site can be difficult, so it's easier to resort to a websearch.  There's a link to the latest software on this page. http://www.u-blox.com/en/evaluation-tools-a-software/u-center/u-center.html As to the

Re: [time-nuts] Practical Survey-In Accuracy?

2014-08-25 Thread Bob Stewart
On Aug 23, 2014, at 7:38 PM, Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net wrote: I've had the LEA-6T sitting in survey-in mode for about 17 hours, and at this point, the u-center software says that the Mean 3D Std Dev is 0.109 meters. Given that my antenna is just a puck at the peak of the attic (never got

[time-nuts] OCXO Phase Noise Measurement in Primitive Conditions

2014-08-27 Thread Bob Stewart
I have my GPSDO developed well enough now that I'm correcting for the quantization error given by my LEA-6T.  As I watch the phase difference plot, it seems a bit more noisy than it should be.  I've also had to make the DAC pretty active to keep the phase noise on a short leash.  So, I'm

Re: [time-nuts] OCXO Phase Noise Measurement in Primitive Conditions

2014-08-27 Thread Bob Stewart
And finally is an ADEV of approximately the same timeframe of the Rb against the OCXO output as measured by my 5335A.  Here the Rb phase is unwrapped. http://evoria.net/AE6RV/TIC/Rb.png Bob From: Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk To: Bob Stewart b

Re: [time-nuts] OCXO Phase Noise Measurement in Primitive Conditions

2014-08-27 Thread Bob Stewart
on the DAC plot.  I did change the differential algorithm since I tried it with low gain, so maybe it'll help. Bob From: Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk To: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 2:02 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] OCXO Phase

Re: [time-nuts] OCXO Phase Noise Measurement in Primitive Conditions

2014-08-27 Thread Bob Stewart
.) From: Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk To: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 2:02 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] OCXO Phase Noise Measurement in Primitive Conditions In message 1409165381.1098.yahoomail...@web142702.mail.bf1.yahoo.com, Bob Ste wart

Re: [time-nuts] OCXO Phase Noise Measurement in Primitive Conditions

2014-08-28 Thread Bob Stewart
.  I feel like I'm finally getting somewhere with this random noise from the OCXO. Bob From: Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk To: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Thursday, August

Re: [time-nuts] Practical Survey-In Accuracy?

2014-08-28 Thread Bob Stewart
Hi Attila, Is wood, nails, and asphalt shingle really that big of a problem at these frequencies?  The antenna is within 2 ft of the highest point of the roof. Bob From: Attila Kinali att...@kinali.ch To: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net; Discussion of precise

Re: [time-nuts] OCXO Phase Noise Measurement in Primitive Conditions

2014-09-01 Thread Bob Stewart
: Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk To: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 1:04 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] OCXO Phase Noise Measurement in Primitive Conditions In message

Re: [time-nuts] OCXO Phase Noise Measurement in Primitive Conditions

2014-09-02 Thread Bob Stewart
as I loosen the gain values. Bob From: Bob Camp kb...@n1k.org To: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 6:38 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] OCXO Phase Noise

Re: [time-nuts] OCXO Phase Noise Measurement in Primitive Conditions

2014-09-02 Thread Bob Stewart
Hi Adrian, Actually no. This ADEV is a plot of the sawtooth-corrected 1PPS signal from the GPS receiver (LEA-6T) measured by the TIC in my GPSDO against the output of its OCXO. Bob From: Adrian rfn...@arcor.de To: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net; Discussion

Re: [time-nuts] OCXO Phase Noise Measurement in Primitive Conditions

2014-09-02 Thread Bob Stewart
Hi Magnus, I knew I was missing something! I'll warm up the Rb and test against that again. Thanks! Bob From: Magnus Danielson mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org To: time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 3:27 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] OCXO Phase

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