Re: [time-nuts] NTP and Windows 7

2014-03-27 Thread Martin Burnicki
John Nelson wrote: Greetings from Wales. I'm not sure whether this august forum is the appropriate place to ask a question about PC timekeeping, but in the hope that someone can point me in the right direction I'll ask anyway ;-) I have just replaced Windows XP with Windows 7. The PC involved

Re: [time-nuts] NTP and Windows 7

2014-03-31 Thread Martin Burnicki
Hal, Hal Murray wrote: martin.burni...@burnicki.net said: Please note under Windows you should configure all upstream servers with a line reading server aa.bb.cc.dd iburst minpoll 6 maxpoll 6 There are lots of times when reducing maxpoll is reasonable, but I think an unqualified

Re: [time-nuts] DCF77/PZF correlation after outage

2014-04-22 Thread Martin Burnicki
regards, Martin -- Martin Burnicki Senior Software Engineer MEINBERG Funkuhren GmbH Co. KG Email: martin.burni...@meinberg.de Phone: +49 (0)5281 9309-14 Fax: +49 (0)5281 9309-30 Lange Wand 9, 31812 Bad Pyrmont, Germany Amtsgericht Hannover 17HRA 100322 Geschäftsführer/Managing Directors: Günter

Re: [time-nuts] DCF77/PZF correlation after outage

2014-04-23 Thread Martin Burnicki
is pretty responsive. Take care, I'm biased. ;-) Martin -- Martin Burnicki Senior Software Engineer MEINBERG Funkuhren GmbH Co. KG Email: martin.burni...@meinberg.de Phone: +49 (0)5281 9309-14 Fax: +49 (0)5281 9309-30 Lange Wand 9, 31812 Bad Pyrmont, Germany Amtsgericht Hannover 17HRA 100322

Re: [time-nuts] ***SPAM*** TED Talk: Todd Humphreys: How to fool a GPS

2013-08-08 Thread Martin Burnicki
Hal Murray wrote: http://www.ted.com/talks/todd_humphreys_how_to_fool_a_gps.html Good overview leading up to GPS Spoofing. It's a year or so old so it doesn't cover any of the recent spoofing demos. This is indeed a good summary of GPS applications and potential risks. Thanks for the

Re: [time-nuts] Warped back to 1993

2013-08-11 Thread Martin Burnicki
bg wrote: As has been discussed here before. The GPS firmware programmer finalizing his stuff at GPS week X (approaching 1024) will make sure his receiver will survive until X weeks into the next era. What X is is hard for the end user to know. 1024 weeks is long time beyond normal warranties.

Re: [time-nuts] Warped back to 1993

2013-08-11 Thread Martin Burnicki
Bob Camp wrote: Hi … and since NTP is open source, doing the hack is not dependent on getting a new firmware image for the GPS. Hacking ntpd is one possibility, with the risk that a workaround for some broken GPS receiver also affects GPS receivers which are working correctly. At least

Re: [time-nuts] Warped back to 1993

2013-08-11 Thread Martin Burnicki
Bob Camp wrote: Hi The issue with the fudge option is that you need to engage it at exactly the right point. Put another way, there's a period between it failing and your entering a fudge that the NTP server is down. The question is whether you know in advance *when* the problem will occur.

Re: [time-nuts] Lady heather plus NTP server?

2014-01-24 Thread Martin Burnicki
above. The patched ntpd has caused no drawbacks on any Windows machines, but has improved accuracy on a number of installations. Martin -- Martin Burnicki Senior Software Engineer MEINBERG Funkuhren GmbH Co. KG Email: martin.burni...@meinberg.de Phone: +49 (0)5281 9309-14 Fax: +49 (0)5281 9309

[time-nuts] GUI installer with ntp-4.2.8 for Windows now available

2014-12-22 Thread Martin Burnicki
Folks, a new GUI installer with ntp-4.2.8 for Windows is now available at Meinberg's NTP download page: http://www.meinbergglobal.com/english/sw/ntp.htm#ntp_stable This also includes the current version v1.0.1j of the openSSL DLL, which also fixes some openSSL vulnerabilities. Martin

Re: [time-nuts] June 30 2015 leap second

2015-01-11 Thread Martin Burnicki
Tom Van Baak wrote: I haven't looked at the raw data, but using the windows apps: a Trimble Resolution SMT is showing the leap pending a Motorola UT+ is not. lady heather is not Interesting. I don't see any leap-pending from a Z3801A. (or a KS-24361) Hi Hal, It's not that simple. There

Re: [time-nuts] June 30 2015 leap second

2015-01-11 Thread Martin Burnicki
Tom Van Baak wrote: Keep in mind that this system drives you to having pretty bad time for the better part of a whole day, on purpose... I realize that when the Hi Didier, The google article never claims the smear spans an entire day. I think you may be confusing references to the leap smear

Re: [time-nuts] June 30 2015 leap second

2015-01-09 Thread Martin Burnicki
Tom Van Baak wrote: I couldn't help noticing that Debian just issued an update to tzone, so that means Linux systems now know about the leap second. -Chuck Harris Hi Chuck, Linux systems now know about the leap second -- this is a very dangerous assumption. And one reason why leap seconds

Re: [time-nuts] June 30 2015 leap second

2015-01-09 Thread Martin Burnicki
d0ct0r wrote: Reading about leap seconds for the past two days, I found that common solution for it - just encode leap second event proactively and wait for it. Of course that possible only if device has that option. For example, BC637PCI has a menu item 7. Program Leap Event Seconds. Which I

Re: [time-nuts] June 30 2015 leap second

2015-01-09 Thread Martin Burnicki
Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Martin Burnicki martin.burni...@burnicki.net wrote: Systems which are simply time clients can receive the leap second warning via the usual protocols like NTP or PTP/IEEE1588. Indeed, they can. Even when there hasn't been a leap-second

Re: [time-nuts] June 30 2015 leap second

2015-01-13 Thread Martin Burnicki
d0ct0r wrote: Today, I did the check the settings for my BC637 card. I was surprised that its overwrite my manual setting for the Leap Event by following information: Time Settings: Mode : GPS Time Format: Binary Year

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

2015-05-07 Thread Martin Burnicki
Brian Inglis wrote: The next rollover is about April 2019, but this can happen any time an older receiver's internal date representation used for GPS to UTC conversion overflows. Looks like Tymserve 2100 picked about Sep 1995 for its date epoch so it hits now. Newer GPS receivers support the

Re: [time-nuts] Tour of METAS (Swiss Federal Institute of Metrology) time lab: any questions or requests?

2015-05-07 Thread Martin Burnicki
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Ask them how/why the HBG transmitter screwed up the 2006 leapsecond ? If I remember correctly then the transmitter would have needed to be overhauled, which would have been very expensive. Since the German DCF77 transmitter can also be received in Switzerland and

Re: [time-nuts] End Of The World

2015-07-01 Thread Martin Burnicki
Bob Camp schrieb: Hi So are we all still here? Any portion of the group blasted into non-existance by the leap second please speak up :) === Any observations of anomalous behavior yet? From a NVD8C-CSM v3.1 module in Glonass-only mode: $GPZDA,235958.00,30,06,2015,00,00*65

Re: [time-nuts] End Of The World

2015-07-02 Thread Martin Burnicki
Bob Camp wrote: Well it sounds like there are (so far) no major reports of extreme behavior. There still seem to be *lots* of reports of systems that do not handle things gracefully. I wonder if the data above is specific to a chip set (which it probably is) or to how Glonass handles leap

Re: [time-nuts] End Of The World

2015-07-02 Thread Martin Burnicki
Frister wrote: My NTP server did a double 59 on the terminal. for anybody who is interested I captured the event : https://youtu.be/OpNci29CI7E I think you need to be careful if you just watch the time in a loop with a sleep 1. Due to slightly varying sleep intervals the time when the date

Re: [time-nuts] Serial Ballpoint issue again

2015-08-11 Thread Martin Burnicki
David C. Partridge wrote: I just installed Windows 10 (yes I know how rash), and now my Thunderbolt is being detected as a Microsoft Serial Ballpoint Mouse (yes, just like before inder Windows 7). I had set something up on Windows 7 in the boot.ini to stop this, but for the life on me I can't

Re: [time-nuts] Rohde & Schwarz GPSDO

2015-10-08 Thread Martin Burnicki
Bob Camp wrote: > Hi > > One thing you can expect - some sort of issue with the GPS rollover issue. > Can it be fixed on this or that unit? That’s going to be highly variable > model to > model. Not much of an issue for a frequency standard, but a pain for NTP. No need to worry, there is no

Re: [time-nuts] Rohde & Schwarz GPSDO

2015-10-08 Thread Martin Burnicki
Björn wrote: > You might get some oscillator information by looking at the Meinberg site. > > https://www.meinbergglobal.com/english/specs/gpsopt.htm > > Is this a badged Meinberg unit or a R built on the Meinberg GPScard? This device has been manufactured by Meinberg, for R Martin

Re: [time-nuts] Rohde & Schwarz GPSDO

2015-10-10 Thread Martin Burnicki
Magnus Danielson wrote: > Hi, > > On 10/09/2015 09:35 PM, Rami Vainio wrote: >> On 7.10.2015 14:45, Arthur Dent wrote: >>> I believe that like a lot of the Meinberg receivers that >>> this uses a down converter to give an IF frequency of >>> 35.4 MHz. If you don't have the converter that

[time-nuts] NTP 4.2.8p3 installer for Windows available

2015-07-10 Thread Martin Burnicki
Hello everybody, just wanted to let you know that the NTP installer for Windows provided by Meinberg has been updated: https://www.meinbergglobal.com/english/sw/ntp.htm#ntp_stable This installer provides the current NTP 4.2.8p3 stable version as well as openSSL DLL 1.0.1p, which has been

Re: [time-nuts] GPS jumps of -13.7 us?

2016-01-29 Thread Martin Burnicki
Hello Net Monk, NeT MonK wrote: > I have subscribed to this list following this incident as far as it was the > first of the few results of search in Google for three days ago. > > On my linux platform of hundreds serveurs, I had incident because of this, > on servers which only use of ptp. >

Re: [time-nuts] GPS jumps of -13.7 us?

2016-01-28 Thread Martin Burnicki
brian wrote: > This may be a dumb question, but I am new to using LadyHeather with my > Thunderbolt (previously it had been slaved to driving a clock display > but that broke, which made me get around to installing a serial card in > my linux box)... > > Are these "events" something I should be

Re: [time-nuts] GPS jumps of -13.7 us?

2016-01-28 Thread Martin Burnicki
Paul Boven schrieb: > Hi everyone, > > Has anyone else seen GPS time jump by -13.7 usec today? > I just heard from several geographically quite distributed radio > observatories that they have seen their GPS receiver(s) jump compared to > their in-house standards. We have now received an

Re: [time-nuts] GPS PRN 32

2016-01-28 Thread Martin Burnicki
Magnus Danielson wrote: > Charles, > > Considering how the UTC parameters (IS-GPS-200H, Table 20-IX and section > 20.3.3.5.2.4) got upset for some of the SVNs, the correction from GPS > time (as corrected for that PRN) into UTC got a shift of almost 13,7 us. > As a GPS receiver receives

Re: [time-nuts] GPS jumps of -13.7 us?

2016-01-27 Thread Martin Burnicki
Magnus Danielson wrote: > Hi, > > On 01/26/2016 11:46 PM, Martin Burnicki wrote: >> Paul Boven wrote: >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> Has anyone else seen GPS time jump by -13.7 usec today? >>> I just heard from several geographically quite dist

Re: [time-nuts] GPS jumps of -13.7 us?

2016-01-28 Thread Martin Burnicki
Magnus Danielson wrote: > It's interesting to see how consistent these errors are. > On the other hand, it is interesting to see how it varies even for the > same PRN. Look at how PRN 09 varies between +0.002 us and -13.696 us. Hm, I think basically it doesn't vary. We fortunately just saw the

Re: [time-nuts] GPS jumps of -13.7 us?

2016-02-01 Thread Martin Burnicki
NeT MonK wrote: > On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Chris Caudle wrote: > >> On Fri, January 29, 2016 1:32 am, NeT MonK wrote: >>> As a side effect of those glitch in the GPS matrix, the utc_valid_flag >> was >>> not anymore set in the stream of the primary master clock,

Re: [time-nuts] Next step up from basic GPS/PPS timekeeping

2016-02-25 Thread Martin Burnicki
Pete Stephenson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 3:22 PM, Neil Green wrote: >> I currently operate a stratum 1 NTP server in the NTP pool using a U-Blox >> Max-7Q GPS module with PPS attached to, variously, a Raspberry Pi via GPIO >> or a Celeron mini PC via serial DB-9.

Re: [time-nuts] GPS Outage

2016-02-29 Thread Martin Burnicki
Hal, Hal Murray wrote: > > martin.burni...@burnicki.net said: >>> Strange that at least 3 independant firmware trees/development teams should >>> chose the same magic wk860. > >> I don't find it strange. If the next firmware version is based on the >> previous version and none of the developers

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB format change in 2012

2016-02-29 Thread Martin Burnicki
Bob Camp wrote: > Hi > > WWVB and WWV (like any radio uncorrected radio system) has fairly predictable > shifts > associated with the day / night ionosphere. One *could* fix that issue with a > table > based on station location. I do not know of any library of code that does > that already. >

Re: [time-nuts] GPS Outage

2016-02-26 Thread Martin Burnicki
Mark Sims wrote: >> When is some organization going to explain what happened in February for >> almost two hours starting at 00:16 GMT? That subject has gone silent. Rob, >> NC0B > I heard back from NAVCEN. They said it was a Trimble issue and that Trimble > would contact me (they didn't).

Re: [time-nuts] GPS Outage

2016-02-26 Thread Martin Burnicki
Björn wrote: > "The product will not report the correct extended GPS week number after the > Feb,13th 2016. > After the rollover to week #860, the thunderbolt will not make position for 2 > hours, because the Ephemeris data on the GPS receiver being consider > incorrect. > The module will work

Re: [time-nuts] GPS jumps of -13.7 us?

2016-01-26 Thread Martin Burnicki
Paul Boven wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Has anyone else seen GPS time jump by -13.7 usec today? > I just heard from several geographically quite distributed radio > observatories that they have seen their GPS receiver(s) jump compared to > their in-house standards. We were able to track this down

Re: [time-nuts] GENIUS by Stephen Hawking (PBS TV), with 5071A cesium clocks

2016-05-18 Thread Martin Burnicki
Hi Tom, Tom Van Baak wrote: > The TV show is tomorrow, Wednesday evening. 8/9 PM, or something like that. > > Here are fresh web pages with background information, photos, and plots: > > http://leapsecond.com/great2016a/ > > http://leapsecond.com/great2016a/photos.htm > > I have no idea how

Re: [time-nuts] help

2016-05-03 Thread Martin Burnicki
Am 3. Mai 2016 18:06:49 MESZ, schrieb Hendrik Dietrich : > >Picking up the time from a DAYTIME Server is easier to implement than >NTP, these respond just with a string containing date and time. If you don't want to run NTP then eventually you sould use the "time" protocol

Re: [time-nuts] [LEAPSECS] Leap second to be introduced at midnight UTC December 31 this year

2016-07-25 Thread Martin Burnicki
Bob, Bob Camp wrote: > Hi > > The practical problem with any change to leap seconds is transition from what > we have > to the “new system”. Anything other than dropping them altogether involves a > *lot* of > coordination. You pretty much have to pick a date and bring everything onto > the

Re: [time-nuts] Leap second to be introduced at midnight UTC December 31 this year

2016-07-20 Thread Martin Burnicki
Jay Grizzard wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 11:39:29PM +, Mark Sims wrote: >> The GPS satellites are now reporting the pending leapsecond... >> >> The Z3801A has it messed up... it says the leap will occur on 30 Sep >> 2016 (73 days). The Z3801A has two different messages that report the

Re: [time-nuts] GPS message jitter (was GPS for Nixie Clock)

2016-07-18 Thread Martin Burnicki
Mark, Chris, Chris Albertson wrote: > Can't you take care of this in the build system? I never go near > Windows, the last version I used was Win 95. But on other systems I > always use something like the GNU Auto tools cmake or whatever and > part of the process is to check for the

Re: [time-nuts] Leap second to be introduced at midnight UTC December 31 this year

2016-07-19 Thread Martin Burnicki
Hal Murray wrote: > > michael.c...@sfr.fr said: >> The relevant NTP leap-seconds-list file can be downloaded with anonymous ftp >> from the pub directory at time.nist.gov. (The leap-seconds-list file is a >> symbolic link to the data file leap-seconds.3676924800 in the same >> directory. ) > >

Re: [time-nuts] GPS message jitter (was GPS for Nixie Clock)

2016-07-19 Thread Martin Burnicki
John Ackermann N8UR wrote: > Long ago I measured the impact of the linux low_latency flag on a 16550 UART. > I don't know where that data is sitting now, but I remember that it made a > significant difference. > >> On Jul 18, 2016, at 9:59 PM, Hal Murray wrote: >> >>

Re: [time-nuts] Leap second to be introduced at midnight UTC December 31 this year

2016-07-20 Thread Martin Burnicki
Hal Murray wrote: > g...@rellim.com said: >>> I don't think there is anything in the core of ntpd that restricts >>> leap seconds to Jun/Dec. If there was, it would have filtered out >>> the above problem. >> How about this: >> ntpd/refclock_hpgps.c, line 544: > > I wasn't considering refclocks

Re: [time-nuts] Leap second to be introduced at midnight UTC December 31 this year

2016-07-20 Thread Martin Burnicki
Gary E. Miller wrote: > Yo time-nuts@febo.com! > > On Tue, 19 Jul 2016 23:18:18 -0700 > Hal Murray , time-nuts@febo.com wrote: > >> g...@rellim.com said: In general there's a common belief that a leap second can only occur at the end of June or December. This

Re: [time-nuts] Leap second to be introduced at midnight UTC December 31 this year

2016-07-20 Thread Martin Burnicki
Magnus, Magnus Danielson wrote: > Now, what annoys me is that the IERS message says that the leap second > is scheduled for January: > > 8<--- > > Paris, 6 July 2016 > > Bulletin C 52 > > To

Re: [time-nuts] GPS disciplined Mars clock

2016-07-09 Thread Martin Burnicki
Joe Fitzgerald schrieb: > > What organization is in charge of inserting leap seconds into the > Martian time scale? IMRS - International Mars Rotation Service ;-) ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to

Re: [time-nuts] Looking to find an antenna for a TrueTime XL-DC

2016-08-06 Thread Martin Burnicki
Alexander Pummer wrote: > Meinberg https://www.meinbergglobal.com/ makes complete down and up > converter for GPS remote antennas That's true, but they have been designed for the frontend assembled in Meinberg GPS receivers. I doubt they work with Truetime devices. Martin (working @Meinberg)

Re: [time-nuts] Using the HP 58503a to correct your PC clock

2016-08-06 Thread Martin Burnicki
Ron, Ron Ott wrote: > The Meinberg page I'm reading has NTP downloads for Windows XP and newer and > for older versions of Windows. If you meant a special version of NTP for > Windows 7, I didn't see mention of it. Why do you think "Windows XP and newer" doesn't include Windows 7, 8, and 10?

Re: [time-nuts] [LEAPSECS] Leap second to be introduced at midnight UTC December 31 this year

2016-07-22 Thread Martin Burnicki
Tom Van Baak wrote: > Time to mention this again... > > If we adopted the LSEM (Leap Second Every Month) model then none of > this would be a problem. The idea is not to decide *if* there will be > leap second, but to force every month to have a leap second. The IERS > decision is then what the

Re: [time-nuts] Manual and Software for R (Meinberg) ED170MP GPS Receiver?

2017-01-23 Thread Martin Burnicki
Dave, Dave Hallidy wrote: > All- > > I just acquired a Rohde & Schwarz (actually a Meinberg) ED170MP GPS Receiver > (and antenna) and I'd like to get it going. > > Can someone here point me to the manual and any software for it? Please contact techsupp...@meinberg.de for help. I'm sure our

Re: [time-nuts] What's the best Windows 10 ntp client?

2016-09-02 Thread Martin Burnicki
Clay Autery wrote: > NTP Time Server Monitor by Meinberg. Sorry, no. As the name suggests this is only a *monitor* program for NTP service (ntpd). You can use it to start/stop the NTP service, have a graphical presentation of the loopstats files optionally generated by ntpd, etc. So this is a

Re: [time-nuts] What's the best Windows 10 ntp client?

2016-09-02 Thread Martin Burnicki
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > At my amateur radio club we have Internet access via a WiFi dongle with a Pay > As You Go card. A Windows 10 PC is only powered up while we are there, so on > around 2-4 hours per week. > > Does anyone have any thoughts on what might be the most suitable software to

Re: [time-nuts] Need Time Help

2016-10-04 Thread Martin Burnicki
You can find some information here : https://www.meinberg.de/download/burnicki/time_synchronization_accuracy_with_ntp.pdf Please note the resolution of the system time in Win XP is only about 16 ms. The NTP service tries to extrapolate the system time to yield better resolution, but applications

Re: [time-nuts] A (slightly) different apu2 question

2016-11-18 Thread Martin Burnicki
Wojciech Owczarek wrote: >> >> >> NTP does not require softstamps. NTP can be (and I believe it has been in >> a product) modified to use "PTP" hardware (hardstamps) and reasonably >> current releases can run with "drivestamps" (sampled in the NIC driver) >> between cooperating endpoints. > >

[time-nuts] Technical Paper: GPS Receiver Impact from the UTC Offset (UTCO) Anomaly of 25-26 January 2016

2016-11-02 Thread Martin Burnicki
There's now a paper with an analysis of the problem available: http://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/performance/2016-UTC-offset-anomaly-impact.pdf Martin ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to

Re: [time-nuts] Observations of NTP during the leap second

2017-01-04 Thread Martin Burnicki
Deirdre O'Byrne wrote: > My setup is a raspberry pi running Linux 4.1.19 and ntpd version 4.2.6p5. > It's being fed a PPS signal from a GPS receiver, and also checks the time > against the ntp pool. > > For the second starting at 23:59:58.0 UTC, NTP was reporting second number > 0xdc12c4fe, and

Re: [time-nuts] Can Lady Heather set PC time directly from a TrimbleThunderbolt?

2017-08-03 Thread Martin Burnicki
Adrian Godwin wrote: > Could Lady Heather provide an NTP server so a local NTP client could access > the GPS time ? Or is that an overcomplicated way to do it? If LH can adjust the system time (I don't know if it can) then you could in addition install ntpd and configure the "local clock"

[time-nuts] Article at gpsworld.com: NASA describes expected impact of total eclipse on GPS

2017-08-11 Thread Martin Burnicki
This may be interesting for time nuts: NASA describes expected impact of total eclipse on GPS http://gpsworld.com/nasa-describes-expected-impact-of-total-eclipse-on-gps/ Martin ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to

Re: [time-nuts] Ships fooled in GPS spoofing attack suggest Russian cyberweapon

2017-08-14 Thread Martin Burnicki
Clint Jay wrote: > Absolutely, their use of it was for something trivial and my reason for > using that example was to show how 'simple' and available the technology is > if a couple of students could do it with lab equipment that anyone can buy > (obviously you'd need deep pockets). I just

Re: [time-nuts] Ships fooled in GPS spoofing attack suggest Russian cyberweapon

2017-08-14 Thread Martin Burnicki
Clint Jay wrote: > Absolutely, their use of it was for something trivial and my reason for > using that example was to show how 'simple' and available the technology is > if a couple of students could do it with lab equipment that anyone can buy > (obviously you'd need deep pockets). > > That it

Re: [time-nuts] Ships fooled in GPS spoofing attack suggest Russian cyberweapon

2017-08-14 Thread Martin Burnicki
Clint Jay wrote: > It might have been a hoax but I'm sure I saw it demonstrated by a couple of > students who used it to fool Pokémon go... Yes, I read about that, too. However, related to Pokémon go it's just fun, but related to serious application it can cause quite some damage.

Re: [time-nuts] Ships fooled in GPS spoofing attack suggest Russian cyberweapon

2017-08-14 Thread Martin Burnicki
Clint Jay wrote: > Didn't someone demonstrate this using some rather expensive but 'off the > shelf' Rohde & Schwarz lab gear a year or so ago? https://news.utexas.edu/2013/07/29/ut-austin-researchers-successfully-spoof-an-80-million-yacht-at-sea

Re: [time-nuts] Ships fooled in GPS spoofing attack suggest Russian cyberweapon

2017-08-14 Thread Martin Burnicki
Hi Björn, bg wrote: > Hi Martin, > No there was also a SDR hack to spoof. > http://www.rtl-sdr.com/cheating-at-pokemon-go-with-a-hackrf-and-gps-spoofing/ This sounds indeed like a nice way to test if a real spoofing approach is working properly, so it could also be used to do really evil things.

Re: [time-nuts] Ships fooled in GPS spoofing attack suggest Russian cyberweapon

2017-08-14 Thread Martin Burnicki
Clint Jay wrote: > No, this was not the software hack, it was done with some rather nice > Rohde test equipment. Ah, OK, of course that's also possible. However, what I found was much simpler: https://devs-lab.com/how-to-play-pokemon-go-without-moving-no-root-required.html

Re: [time-nuts] SOPHOS discussion of GPS jamming and eLoran

2017-08-09 Thread Martin Burnicki
Dave B via time-nuts wrote: > Or... > > http://bit.ly/2hGKTgXThat goes to:- There are 2 problems I see with this kind of link: 1.) A user doesn't see where the link takes him before he has clicked on the link, so he can easily be taken to a "bad" web site. 2.) These short links eventually

Re: [time-nuts] Can Lady Heather set PC time directly from a TrimbleThunderbolt?

2017-08-05 Thread Martin Burnicki
Chris, Chris Albertson wrote: > I'm not a fan of Meinberg because of the way they market freely > available software. I'm sorry you feel this way. We at Meinberg have supported the NTP project for many years, by donations of money and hardware, testing, submitting bug reports and patches.

[time-nuts] The "atomic second" turns 50

2017-10-13 Thread Martin Burnicki
The "atomic second" turns 50 https://idw-online.de/de/news682346 ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.

Re: [time-nuts] NTP linked PC clock is slightly ahead of Lady Heather GPS time

2017-10-11 Thread Martin Burnicki
Hi Rob, Rob Kimberley wrote:> I'm using the Meinberg NTP Distribution here with their NTP Monitor prog on Win10-64, and two GPS NTP servers.> > Config settings: -> >server 192.168.1.120 iburst minpoll 4 maxpoll 5> server 192.168.1.121 iburst minpoll 4 maxpoll 5> > Consistent sub millisecond

Re: [time-nuts] Test WWV timecube against Cesium, Rubidium, MASER or other precision time (UT-1) metrology

2017-12-08 Thread Martin Burnicki
Hal Murray wrote: > > kb...@n1k.org said: >> To get the accuracy into the 1 ms range on WWV, you would need a pretty good >> idea of the path length between you and WWV. > > Dave Mills has a program to compute delays. > > * By default it prints out a summer (F2 average virtual height 350 km)

Re: [time-nuts] On the IETF leap-seconds.list SHA1

2017-12-21 Thread Martin Burnicki
Am 21.12.2017 um 07:37 schrieb Hal Murray: >> I am still unable to access the NIST ftp-site linked earlier in this thread. > > There have been several URLs mentioned. > > If you want: > ftp://time.nist.gov/pub/leap-seconds.list > Try > ftp://ftp.nist.gov/pub/time/leap-seconds.list > > Any

Re: [time-nuts] On the IETF leap-seconds.list SHA1

2017-12-20 Thread Martin Burnicki
Anders Wallin wrote: > Thanks, > I added the IANA URL to my list, and sent them an e-mail. > I can't seem to reach the nist ftp-server - does it work for anyone? Please note the global address time.nist.gov is resolved to a number of public servers in a round-robin sequence. Some of the servers

Re: [time-nuts] On the IETF leap-seconds.list SHA1

2017-12-20 Thread Martin Burnicki
John Hawkinson wrote: > Umm, the presence of a copy of the IANA TZ distribution at > https://www.ietf.org/timezones/ is not evidence of an "IETF leap-seconds > list." This is bizarre, and probably a web server configuration error that > even exists. The IETF is not involved in this list. I

Re: [time-nuts] On the IETF leap-seconds.list SHA1

2017-12-20 Thread Martin Burnicki
Martin Burnicki wrote: > According to an email from Judah Levine (NIST) the current version of > the leap second file is available via anonymous FTP from all public NIST > NTP servers. A list of these servers and the status of each server is > available at > http://tf.nist.gov/tf-

Re: [time-nuts] On the IETF leap-seconds.list SHA1

2017-12-20 Thread Martin Burnicki
Martin Burnicki wrote: > See also a summary at > https://www.meinbergglobal.com/download/burnicki/the_ntp_leap_second_file.pdf I saw that the leapseconds file provided by USNO is outdated, and FTP access to the NIST sites has changed, so I've just updated the PDF accordingly.

Re: [time-nuts] Meinberg (Rode & Schwartz), ED170MP GPS Receiver

2018-04-08 Thread Martin Burnicki
Time wrote: > Does anyone have any information for the Meinberg (Rode & Schwartz), ED170MP > GPS Receiver? If you send email to techsupp...@meinberg.de then I'm sure my colleagues of the support group can help. It would be good if you specify a little bit more detailed which information you're

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Antenna revisited/Spectracom 8182

2018-03-23 Thread Martin Burnicki
paul swed write: > I'll add to the comments the spectracoms are phase tracking receivers and > do not work on the new BPSK signal. When the German PTB made effort to increase the accuracy and reliability of the DCF77 long wave receiver in the 1980s, they implemented thus in a way that old