Re: [time-nuts] Symmetricom TS2100-GPS - 1PPS has 10uS offset

2013-05-20 Thread Greg Dowd
was stored in e2 at mfg time based on gps receiver module. At some point, your unit must have not been set or been set to incorrect value or had its gps receiver replaced. Is there an antenna prop delay command available you can use? Greg Dowd | Symmetricom®, Inc. Staff Scientist  2300

Re: [time-nuts] Datum TS-2100 Rubidium

2010-07-20 Thread Greg Dowd
, with a small PSU mod board, and I believe a firmware upgrade included. Unfortunately I don't have any info on file any more. If Greg Dowd at Symmetricom is lurking on this site, maybe he could point you in the right direction. Rob Kimberley -Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com

Re: [time-nuts] Datum TS-2100 Rubidium

2010-07-20 Thread Greg Dowd
I think the Rb version went in a taller case? As for the reboot, probably depends on where you are probing :-) My proto unit from 1996 is still happily ticking along on my bench in the lab with an MTI oven that still has tuning range. -Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com

Re: [time-nuts] Datum TS-2100 Rubidium

2010-07-22 Thread Greg Dowd
. Rob -Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Greg Dowd Sent: 20 July 2010 6:20 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Datum TS-2100 Rubidium I think the Rb version went in a taller

Re: [time-nuts] TrueTime XL-DC Problems

2008-08-05 Thread Greg Dowd
Have you tried Symmetricom tech support? Truetime is now part of Symm's Timing, Test and Measurement division. Greg Dowd gdowd at symmetricom dot com (antispam format) Symmetricom, Inc. www.symmetricom.com Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler Albert Einstein

Re: [time-nuts] hpgps ntp refclock driver and leap second

2008-08-25 Thread Greg Dowd
In NTPv4, the warning is propagated as soon as it is available. If it were more than 6 months in advance, this could be an issue but that hasn't happened yet. NTP also ignores the alternate (Mar/Sept) leap windows by design. Greg Dowd gdowd at symmetricom dot com (antispam format

Re: [time-nuts] Help with Datum/Symmetricom TymServe TS2100

2008-09-30 Thread Greg Dowd
an upgrade kit (which cost $1k). The days of schematics in the back of the manual were over long before the merger. Greg Dowd gdowd at symmetricom dot com (antispam format) Symmetricom, Inc. www.symmetricom.com Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler Albert Einstein -Original

Re: [time-nuts] Where can I find a master list of NTP /time services RFC's?

2008-10-07 Thread Greg Dowd
working group will likely release a few as well. Note that time and daytime are really, really old now. Greg Dowd gdowd at symmetricom dot com (antispam format) Symmetricom, Inc. www.symmetricom.com Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler Albert Einstein -Original Message

Re: [time-nuts] Do any regulations or laws require time to be accurate within 'x' seconds?

2008-11-20 Thread Greg Dowd
This is about the most I've found. http://tf.nist.gov/timefreq/general/pdf/2125.pdf -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gretchen Baxter Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 9:03 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject:

Re: [time-nuts] TS-2100 OCXO

2013-10-29 Thread Greg Dowd
I think you would have a decent chance of getting any 240 to work. While we did have our own configuration, I think it was just to allow full range tuning across the subset of tuning voltages we could reach with our dac, which is really reaching, but maybe .5 to 4.5V. As long as the 240

Re: [time-nuts] Datum 2100L issues

2009-10-29 Thread Greg Dowd
Yup, you're in good shape. These are pretty straightforward devices. What firmware version do you have? Ver command. -Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Mark Kahrs Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 12:25 PM To: Discussion

Re: [time-nuts] Datum 2100L issues

2009-10-30 Thread Greg Dowd
Yup, according to the factory, that's the latest update. -Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Mark Kahrs Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 9:53 AM To: Christopher Hoover Cc: time-nuts@febo.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Datum

Re: [time-nuts] IEEE1588

2012-02-01 Thread Greg Dowd
The challenge with public grandmasters is that the delay variation introduced by the intervening network destroys the time accuracy. Greg Dowd gdowd at symmetricom dot com (antispam format) Symmetricom, Inc. www.symmetricom.com A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. Albert

Re: [time-nuts] Minor NTP Issue?

2010-11-09 Thread Greg Dowd
My guess is that the error is real and coming from the TS2100. The TS2100 was (is) a SNTP server running a RTOS but the timestamps are done at the application layer. If you look at the output 1pps of the TS2100, my guess is that it will probably agree with your other devices within a few

Re: [time-nuts] Maintaining boatanchors

2010-11-09 Thread Greg Dowd
Since I either owned or created all the Bancomm/Datum ntp designs after I joined bancomm in 1992, I can promise you that I still have at least one version of the source code :-) Actually I think I even have the source for the bc635/700LAN product, created by Joe Fontes. The problem is generally

Re: [time-nuts] OT: NTP server questions

2010-11-30 Thread Greg Dowd
Rob, you wound me :-) Actually, the Meinberg unit is a great box. The commercial devices pretty much all fit the need that you describe. One caution I would make about them is the note about the environmentals. From experience I can tell you that a HV is a very harsh environment for shock and

Re: [time-nuts] Upgrading TS2100 from TCXO to OCXO

2011-03-28 Thread Greg Dowd
I think a couple of those bits do correspond to the oscillator type installed but I think you can ignore them. If I remember right, those oscillator bits were only used to calculate the dispersion update for ntp packets when flywheeling through a loss of signal. As far as I recall, you just

Re: [time-nuts] Upgrading TS2100 from TCXO to OCXO

2011-03-31 Thread Greg Dowd
The offset command in the TS2100 is just a phase stepper in 100ns steps. Usage was originally targeted at compensating for the GPS antenna cable length (~ns/ft). As it turned out, we used it for another purpose as well. The very first models of the 2100 used an external GPS receiver (Trimble

Re: [time-nuts] Upgrading TS2100 from TCXO to OCXO

2011-04-01 Thread Greg Dowd
show up as a skew on the PPS output. -Bob On Mar 31, 2011, at 11:44 AM, Greg Dowd gd...@symmetricom.com wrote: The offset command in the TS2100 is just a phase stepper in 100ns steps. Usage was originally targeted at compensating for the GPS antenna cable length (~ns/ft). As it turned out

Re: [time-nuts] Upgrading TS2100 from TCXO to OCXO

2011-04-01 Thread Greg Dowd
Well the units are 100ns each so if you set offset to 3, it should shift the 1pps output by 300ns. Another point is that there is significant asymmetry in the ntp packet processing if you are looking at accuracy. For the 1996 time of day requirement of 100ms, it was moot. If you set the box

Re: [time-nuts] The Original Time Nut

2008-02-22 Thread Greg Dowd
. At least according to my guide. Greg Dowd gdowd at symmetricom dot com (antispam format) Symmetricom, Inc. www.symmetricom.com Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler Albert Einstein -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: [time-nuts] Datum/Symmetricom BC637PCI Time andFrequencyProcessor

2008-05-06 Thread Greg Dowd
that I created a few years ago was actually a headless 1U x86 computer with a bc637PCI and a modem plugged into it, running linux and ntp with refclock drivers along with a web server for control. I'll look for the xp stuff. Greg Dowd gdowd at symmetricom dot com (antispam format) Symmetricom

Re: [time-nuts] Cable length calibration

2016-06-29 Thread Greg Dowd
We have a smart antenna where the receiver is in the antenna housing and the link to the timing receiver is digital over coax. On that, we can run a variant of DTI (DocSis Timing Interface) which calibrates the cable delay automagically. Not sure what the original question was but yes, it's