On 2/4/2012 12:17 AM, John Miles wrote:
In the current 5680A units, the 10 MHz output comes from the 60 MHz VCXO
(divided by 6 in CPLD) and not direct from a DDS. If my architecture
understanding is right, the DDS signal output is mixed with the VCXO
output
only at the 114th harmonic of 60
Thanks guys!
Updated Elio's picture with the additional info John provided.
Revised picture posted here...
http://www.xertech.net/FE5680A/FE-5680A_annotated_2.jpg
Let me know if I got anything wrong. Elio, feel free to update your
original if you want to keep control of it.
-Rex
On 2/1
Chris,
Pretty sure (I haven't downloaded it again to verify) that the version
you found is TM0110-2 which has been available for quite a long time.
Rob's and the Russian version seem to be TM 5680-0211 as stated in the
title.
As Bob points out, they are not the same, although the 0211
On 1/22/2012 9:49 AM, Chris Albertson wrote:
The current batch of (about) $40 units are different from what was
available a year ago. These new ones require 5V DC input in addition
to 15V and can only be programmed via RS232 a few Hz away from 10MHz.
So they are only good for use as a 10MHz
On 1/23/2012 1:04 AM, gary wrote:
On Thunderbird, it looks like a fresh thread.
You mean Thunderbird the mail program or that you're on Thunderbird the
cheap wine?
I'm viewing the list in Thunderbird 3.xx as I reply, and your
[time-nuts] ntpq output is quite clearly attached in the thread
Back in 2005 I got one of the FE-5680A rubidiums. The one I got came on
the full original circuit board. I thought I would make up a PDF to show
what the original board looked like and the kind of heat sink they
mounted it on.
The board is large and has about 140 sq in of almost solid ground
On 1/18/2012 7:35 PM, Peter Bell wrote:
Just out of interest, did you remove the connector and the faceplate
or was the board shipped to you like that?
The board had no faceplate when I got it, and from the PDF, The
connector was broken and has been removed for these
pictures.
The board I
I have read about the EFC mod for the 5680A by Bill Riches and adapted
for external by Arthur Dent. Nice work.
Maybe I missed a detail in all the recent messages --
Question:
Has anyone measured or calculated the tuning sensitivity of the pin-5
EFC voltage? (Hz/V number)
Here's a start: http://www.leapsecond.com/museum/fei5650a/
Then:
http://www.ko4bb.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=precision_timing:rubidium_oscillators
Then google: 5650A site:febo.com
On 1/13/2012 5:41 PM, Rich (Buckeye) wrote:
Looking for FE-5650A Rubidium Frequency Standard Information.
I
/industryscience/pdf/pmt/ doesn't
work at all.
I'm not saying your methods are wrong (site seems generally helpful) but
google and phontonis seem not to be in sync on these docs.
-Rex
On 1/10/2012 7:49 PM, Rex wrote:
You might want to join this Yahoo group where the question would be
more on-topic
I think we really need a FAQ, particularly for the 5680A. Maybe Didier
would provide a place. (Or is it already there?)
How many times, just in the last month or so, have the same questions
been thrashed over and over again?
- Pinouts - versions - reverse engineering wheel reinvention
-
that sticking a B on the end of some
Lastek broken link names might work and found...
XP3312B.pdf
XP3212B.pdf
XP5312B.pdf
I couldn't find XP5212 but looking at the Lastek page, it may be similar
to 5292 which I found as...
XP5292B.pdf
HTH
-Rex, KK6MK
On 1/10/2012 5:37 PM, ed breya wrote:
I just
The description sounds the same as the crystal oven in a 5245L counter.
Part number for one I have is 5243A-69A. I suspect the operation may be
the same if you can find docs for the 5245 counter. The crystal is 1 MHz
and the oscillator circuit was external to the oven unit connected
through
FWIW. I just hapened on this power supply in an ad. You might find a
fixed voltage one somewhere cheaper, but the price seemed ok, so here it
is for consideration...
http://www.mpja.com/email/12-13-11.asp?r=284759s=2
Still need the 5 V somehow, so not a complete solution for the 5680A.
On
I don't think the strange oscillator is part of the Rb board.
I have a full board from a purchase a number of years back. There are no
gold fingers; it has a big square multi-pin connector. The board is 20
inches long and has only a few interfacing chips on it and a LED. I'd
say the board is
On 12/14/2011 5:20 PM, Steve . wrote:
Looks to me like 63.8976mhz (63,897,600hz) is divisible by two. Using a
counter to make a clock distribution system etc. With that in mind i could
use this in all sorts of projects.
Steve
Hmm... 63897600 = 0x3CF. Pretty clean hex number with those
Brooke,
14.31818 is 4x the analog color burst (~3.58)
18.432 divides cleanly for baud rates. I've used it as a PIC clock for
that. I think some of the others may be too, but I didn't recognize or
do the math to see.
On 12/14/2011 7:13 PM, Brooke Clarke wrote:
Hi Pete:
Maybe you can
On 11/12/2011 9:46 AM, Don Latham wrote:
I just bought a couple of 5680A's that have the same FEI p/n. They are
pop-riveted to a heavy double-sided board., obviously cut off from a
longer board.
I think those pop-rivets are actually screws with a small hex socket in
the center. That's what
Bob,
You did the opposite of the thread splitting, just discussed; you tagged
your message onto an unrelated thread.
Manuals for the 5370 are not hard to find. From a service manual I found:
3-22. Error messages
Error 2 - Data out of range (overrange).
On 10/7/2011 8:26 AM, shali...@gmail.com wrote:
I bought two HP 5334B on ebay for under $100 each (that was a couple of years
ago).
Nice counter, with GPIB.
Didier KO4BB
And no fans in the 5334, so quiet.
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On 7/14/2011 2:02 PM, Steve Rooke wrote:
Well, if everyonel climbed Everest and we all jumped up and down
together, perhaps we could achieve that :)
Cheers, Steve
I can't resist moving this off-topic thread by a giant leap.
I have a 1969 R. Crumb comic book starring Fritz the Cat. In one
On the FE-5680A, there are quite a number of versions that have that
number and look the same. Most run from one voltage input (+15V ? from
memory) but some take that and a +5V to run. Most can be tuned with
software, but the dual voltage one I got some years back -- I never
found a way to
On 7/8/2011 7:57 AM, Javier Herrero wrote:
As a matter of curiosity... Am I the only time nut that does not wear
a wrist watch? Or... perhaps I'm not a true time nut... :)
Regards,
Javier
He he. Me too. Back when I used to wear a wrist watch, I found I would
neurotically keep glancing at
to work as I
thought it should. Thanks for getting me to think about this again and
finding a verification of my results with less random test equipment.
On 6/9/2011 11:43 AM, Magnus Danielson wrote:
On 06/09/2011 07:30 PM, Peter Vince wrote:
Hi Rex,
You could try asking the guys
-
Von: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] Im Auftrag
von Rex
Gesendet: Montag, 6. Juni 2011 00:42
An: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Betreff: Re: [time-nuts] Fluke PM6681 triggering
I forgot that I had a 50 ohm load on the scope end of my cable
further from playing
with the nice new counter.
Thanks for the feedback -- any more welcomed.
-Rex
On 6/5/2011 12:42 AM, Bruce Griffiths wrote:
A Geiger Muller (GM) tube produces an output pulse as a result of an
avalanche discharge in the gas filled tube initiated by the passage of
ionising
an
internal quenching gas (eg a halogen) or to use suitable circuitry to
ensure the discharge terminates.
Bruce
Rex wrote:
Bill and Bruce,
Clearly, fixing the messed up signal is the proper approach. What you
are missing is that I got a shiney new (for me) expensive hammer and
I thought
it should be.
There may well be a circuit fault.
The circuit already includes a monostable.
Bruce
Rex wrote:
We are getting pretty far afield of my original counter triggering
question.
As far as I know, any specific quenching is only necessary for
achieving the highest counting rates which isn't
Someone in the industry said that it makes so little sense that there
must be some other way for it (the proposal, not the technology) to work.
The shorting financially is one way and the prime investor in L^2 is a
major hedge fund. The other possibility I heard proposed by my friend is
that
Bill,
Thanks for once again making one of the more useless and deluded posts I
have seen recently.
Keep up the consistent work.
On 6/5/2011 8:05 AM, William H. Fite wrote:
Thanks for a cleansing breath of fresh air, Charles. The paranoia and
cynicism were reaching toxic levels.
As
be a circuit fault.
The circuit already includes a monostable.
Bruce
Rex wrote:
We are getting pretty far afield of my original counter triggering
question.
As far as I know, any specific quenching is only necessary for
achieving the highest counting rates which isn't involved in my
measurements, so
I recently picked up a Fluke PM6681 counter (same as a Pendulum CNT-81).
Looks like a sweet device.
I was just trying to use it for a not-so-much-timing purpose and was
hoping to find an expert here who might help me with a triggering question.
I just set it up to count total pulses, over a
Let's see if my mail client wraps the looong link too...
http://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/at-work/innovation/does-anybody-really-know-what-time-it-is/?utm_source=techalertutm_medium=emailutm_campaign=051911
I was expecting a video, but it's still nice as an mp3
On 5/24/2011 7:00 PM, Tom
On 5/3/2011 9:16 AM, Bob Bownes wrote:
First it was building a VE2ZAZ GPSDO with an 10881 I happened across.
...
I suspect the 10881. :(
I think you are stuttering on the wrong digit.
You must mean the venerable 10811.
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On 4/19/2011 9:50 AM, Philip Pemberton wrote:
Or dihydrogen monoxide?
A high-school student won first prize in his science fair by
circulating a report on the dangers of DHMO, then asking his peers
what action (if any) should be taken (i.e. should it be banned?).
46 students called for a
I don't think there was any bad intent in the changed email, but the
point is that if the OT message was posted this way it will probably
happen again.
Email message headers contain a thread-index number. Any decent email
program groups the messages into threads using this (normally hidden)
In a previous thread, that I and others were totally corrupting by
posting how not to do exactly what we were doing, Mike S replied to me...
On 4/12/2011 1:53 PM, Mike S wrote:
At 04:03 PM 4/12/2011, Rex wrote...
Email message headers contain a thread-index number. Any decent
email program
On 4/7/2011 8:09 AM, cook michael wrote:
Le 07/04/2011 16:20, Jerry a écrit : The 10 MHz
output is not close to the expected frequency tolerance. The first of
the units that I received puts out a signal at 9,999,945 Hz. The
vendor then sent a second unit which puts out a signal at 10,000,025
On 3/28/2011 9:46 AM, Lenny Story wrote:
Greetings,
Is there an accepted form for the PPS clock pulses that are produced
by the various time equipment in use today ?
Short answer -- No.
Examples:
HP GPSDOs like 3801A and 3816A have a positive-going square pulse that
is 10's of
Knowing that I somewhat contradict myself by posting, I agree with Bill.
Anyone who is capable of contemplating projects with such high-tech
parts ought to be able to find a way to conduct a poll that doesn't
require hundreds of people seeing every response over a period of
several days.
a command from an external source to initiate that
programming, or whether it happens at power-on (perhaps with the
clocking of the serial EPROM by the FE-5680A itself?).
I read that Rex and Brian Kirby have figured out that the unit needs
a +5V supply (or perhaps just a logic input) in addition
Not completely true. They are not invariably single supply. This
subject seems to come up at least once a year. Usually, I provide this
information and apparently some don't believe me. As you say, there are
many 5680A variants.
I had one I obtained several years back that definitely needed
On 3/11/2011 9:14 PM, J. Forster wrote:
How big is the file?
-John
===
It's about 25 MB. Took several minutes to get (after the delay) with my
DSL connection.
I think this was my first RapidShare download, but it worked for me. In
case it matters, I'm running XP and Firefox
On the taiko-denki plugs/sockets, FWIW...
I was just calibrating one of my ham receivers. One of the steps
involved removing one of these taiko-denki 204 connector cables and
measuring the frequency out of the socket. With calipers, I measured the
plug dimensions and discovered that the
On 2/11/2011 1:00 PM, paul swed wrote:
Then soap and water with elbow grease and they look like new and work well.
Regards
Paul.
I like automobile bug and tar remover for cleaning external panels on
old equipment. It is a moderate solvent. I've never seen it damage paint
but is strong
On 2/6/2011 9:57 AM, Murray Greenman wrote:
there should not be a 5V
input required on the 5680A.
There are MANY versions of 5680A. Some definitely do need 5 V input to
work. From this thread, apparently on the ones that do need 5 V input,
different versions even use different pins for this
On 2/4/2011 6:37 PM, Stanley Reynolds wrote:
Hi Time-nuts,
I set up a Facebook profile where I can post my pictures, videos and events and
I want to add you as a friend so you can see it. First, you need to join
Facebook! Once you join, you can also create your own profile.
Thanks,
Stanley
On 2/4/2011 7:31 PM, William H. Fite wrote:
Actually, Perrier,
Bill
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Perry Sandeensandee...@yahoo.com wrote:
List,
Wrote: the stadium lights
Janet Neapolitan
liberals and conservatives
Drudge Report
Regards,
Perrier
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE STOP!!!
NOT
On 2/2/2011 2:29 PM, bownes wrote:
Of the 2 lc orgs I administer or am a member of, and the roughly 8 other lc
orgs I interact with on a regular basis, only one uses lc certified gps equip.
The others are all consumer grade or don't use gps.
However, a slew of filings and letters from the lc
On 1/30/2011 12:33 AM, cook michael wrote:
as list members were indicating that 5370Bs were to be picked up for
200 bucks. Not so in France I am afraid. I have not been able to find
anything under 5 times that over here.
I questioned that, relative to my experience. Miracles do happen, but
On 1/25/2011 1:26 PM, Gerhard Hoffmann wrote:
Am 25.01.2011 15:35, schrieb Ulrich Bangert:
see page 8.6ff of the service manual to see that the HP3325 is not
DDS based
but uses a Fractional N Synthesizer scheme which is something
completely
different and is not prone to the described effects.
On 1/19/2011 11:39 AM, lstosk...@cox.net wrote:
Have an extra $1,500?
http://www.symmetricom.com/products/frequency-references/chip-scale-atomic-clock-csac/SA.45s-CSAC/
N0UU
Did you miss the many earlier messages on this list?
They actually had a PR blurb about this on the local TV news
this opportunity to thank these people and the
many others who make their time, knowledge and resources available to
support our time-nuttery.
-Rex
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On 12/28/2010 4:57 PM, Graham / KE9H wrote:
On 12/28/2010 5:59 PM, Adrian wrote:
Now as we're talking wrist watches and other toys..
I'm wondering who might have acquired that ol' piece of time-nuttiness:
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=220713930052
Adrian
==
I would sure
Why worry, Just get Bob C to sell you one of his several $200 5370A/B's
for a reasonable $100 profit (plus shipping) and you'll beat anything
I've seen on eBay in the last year. Everyone should be happy. Bob can
can take the profit then (soon) easily get another to replace it at his
perceived
It's not easy to find decent prices these days. I finally got an 8662A
at a price I was willing to pay, but that was after watching listings
for a year or more.
In the rare case where a good unit gets listed at a reasonable price,
the other guy who wants to sell it at X usually bids against
On 11/14/2010 7:24 PM, David I. Emery wrote:
3. External reference LNBs with 10 MHz (pretty universal) going
up the cable that also carries power and brings the L band signal down.
I'm not entirely sure how many of these designs simply bandpass filter
and then limit the 10 MHz and use that
I never saw the original message because, apparently, it was off-topic
posted in one of the noisy threads I was deleting. But anyway...
From the similar GPS 58503B manual:
:DIAGnostic:LIFetime:COUNt? RESPONSE
Returns the lifetime count, indicating the total powered-on time.
Range of the
chaff to get to the wheat. Many times I'm
not sure if I missed something good in that slash and burn. A couple of
years ago that was less necessary, and (my opinion) I liked it better.
-Rex
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The ability to easily do this kind of graphics stuff (scanning and
printing) at an affordable price is one of the few recent innovations
that I appreciate over the great design and longevity in older tech
equipment. Meld the two = win-win.
On 10/11/2010 5:22 PM, paul swed wrote:
Thanks
You mean near the intersection of 401 and 537? Close to 385 also.
(I took the liberty of keeping up the code and adding 300 to everything.)
-Rex
On 10/8/2010 6:26 PM, J. Forster wrote:
Where? Off 401 near the Blue Cube?
-John
=
We had similar dome in Sunnyvale (Ca)Â until
On 9/24/2010 5:15 PM, WarrenS wrote:
David
It would be worth while to first see what is wrong, if anything, with
what you now have.
Too logical.
This could stall two country's economies. Why measure actual performance
of your current model when you can take input from others to learn you
On 9/14/2010 8:28 AM, Dan Rae wrote:
I hate to disagree with John who knows a heck of lot more than I ever
will, but in this case it will protect the oven from cooking up if the
control circuit fails with the heater full on, which can happen.
I did have a 5370B with a 10811 that had a bad
to. My Z3805A is marked Samsung, as are all the ones I
see coming from China.
The current price seems to be more like $350 than $250 for the ones
left. I think $350 is about what I paid for my Z3805A a bit over a year,
or so, back.
-Rex
On 9/7/2010 4:34 AM, Bob Camp wrote:
Hi
The bad units
...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On
Behalf Of Rex
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 11:56 AM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Anyone have a comparison of the Z3805A and a Tbolt?
Bob,
I wonder if you are really talking about Z3805A's
(Ceramic resonators)
Maybe Trans-Tech
http://www.trans-techinc.com/products_detail.asp?ID=2
On 9/2/2010 5:54 PM, Peter Krengel wrote:
Hello,
I'm looking for manufactors/distributors of High Q (high Epsilon r) ceramic
materials.
Best would be cylindrical forms of ~ 10-30mm diameter.
Has
On 8/1/2010 11:08 PM, John Miles wrote:
If you live in the US, you might consider writing to your legislators to try
to educate them on the economic effects of software patents. You can also
contribute your thoughts on post-'Bilski' patentability to the USPTO here:
On 8/2/2010 1:55 AM, David C. Partridge wrote:
At long last, an outbreak of sanity in an insane world.
Regards,
David Partridge
I agree. For some reason I had the impression that the ruling had gone
more the other way.
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From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com
On 8/2/2010 8:58 AM, Mike Feher wrote:
Stanley -
I know this has been a long thread, but, either I missed the beginning or
forgot. What is it that the board you are selling actually does? Thanks -
Mike
Mike B. Feher, N4FS
89 Arnold Blvd.
Howell, NJ, 07731
732-886-5960
I have a couple notebooks with PCMCIA (AKA PC Card) slots. A few years
back I got an NI card on eBay. Probably harder to find than a PCI card
and possibly more expensive, but it is one more option that should be
compatible with all the software. Doesn't need a full sized PC too.
It is one
From a 1993 HP Catalog:
HP5335A Option 40
Expanded HP-IB Control
Adds remote selection of low-pass filter, ac/dc coupling, attenuator, dc
triggering level, and input impedance for Channels A and B.
On 7/28/2010 7:24 PM, Gordon Batey wrote:
Greetings to the timekeepers. I have enjoyed
Thomas A. Frank wrote:
On Jul 16, 2010, at 4:08 AM, Peter Monta wrote:
Rex r...@sonic.net wrote:
I just eyeballed the minute turn-over but it was clearly within
about a second.
Well, apparently it is a phone issue and not a cell-tower issue.
Searching the support forums yields
. Good enough for me on my phone. So, at least here
where I am, ATT time is not off by even a couple seconds. Maybe the
issue is another iPhone problem. Do you have any friends on ATT with
Motorola phones you can compare?
-Rex
Peter Monta wrote:
Here in the Bay Area, ATT/iPhone time has gotten
Robert Benward wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone have the pinouts for the Motorola GPS within the Z3801A? It's a
ten pin header and I would like to intercept the data stream to see if it's
working. Also, I read about some of the Motorolas putting out binary data,
not NEMA protocol.
Thanks,
Bob
between each other.
The time order in which these references were produced (older to newer)
is: 3801, 3816, 3805. That aligns with the different GPS receivers that
were used inside.
Robert Benward wrote:
Hi Rex,
One more question: I understand some of the Z3801A were equipped
Robert Benward wrote:
Checked wires, measured voltages, -0.5 and +2.0 on TX and RX.
Bob
That does sound very odd if it is RS232.
Have you measured these voltages out of the Z38xx unit into just an open
cable? That would take any driving or loading from the PC-end serial
port out of the
be done here, but with completely
different parsing.
Steve Rooke wrote:
Hi Rex,
On 25 May 2010 08:32, Rex r...@sonic.net wrote:
Steve,
If the Furuno pdf's , you have, are more than just the sales fluff, I'd
suggest you upload the files to Didier's web pages
http://www.ko4bb.com/cgi-bin
found what I have used.
-Rex
Robert Benward wrote:
Thank you all for these inputs!
Most importantly, the big question is: Regardless of RS-232 or 422,
will the unit do ANYTHING without communications? Do I need a computer
to get anything beyond the power led?
I bought this at the Dayton
Robert Benward wrote:
Hi,
I just purchased a Z3805A at the Dayton hamfest this past weekend. How do I
get it to work? Do I need software to run this, or can it run stand alone.
I have turned it on, but only the power light comes on, the GPS lock, and
more importantly, the enable light is
documentation and command reference docs on the net.
Hope that helps a bit.
-Rex
Robert Benward wrote:
Hi,
I just purchased a Z3805A at the Dayton hamfest this past weekend. How do I
get it to work? Do I need software to run this, or can it run stand alone.
I have turned it on, but only the power
Chris, your links don't work.
ch...@yipyap.com wrote:
just for show-and-tell:
...
I have four rough pictures.
www.yipyap.com/radio_stuff/ND100M/One.pdf is right (rear)
end of the component side.
www.yipyap.com/radio_stuff/ND100M/Four.pdf is the left (front)
end of the component side.
I mentioned in an earlier thread that I found Jasco Prep and Primer at
Home Depot, but that was several years back. I don't know if it is still
stocked. The stuff is a blue-green liquid and mostly phosphoric acid.
The naval jelly that I have seen actually was a jelly so it would stick
better
I just realized that the recent big transfers of money from Washington
DC to Wall Street must have been a large-scale test of the MANA system.
-Rex...
heading to Home Depot to find a large container I can adapt into a MANA
antenna.
Tom Van Baak wrote:
I used the new google today and found
jimlux wrote:
Scott Burris wrote:
CH closed briefly to move and is now open in Duarte:
http://www.candhsurplus.com/
At Apex, a friend tried to purchase a nose cone from a rocket, but
they declined
to sell it to him because they were making too much money renting it
out to movie studios.
Steve Rooke wrote:
What puzzles me is who is the keeper of legal time for the other
93.4% of land mass and 95.5% of population of the World other than the
US.
Just curious where you got those percentage numbers? A quick check says
they are in the ball park, but wondering where you got
paul swed wrote:
Were do you obtain a small amount of phosphoric acid
Also when I looked it up they said it was H3PO4. Doesn't sound like the
same.
Is there a common use for it?
I bought a quart a while ago at Home Depot in the paint section. Jasco
Prep and Primer for metal - a liquid.
Bob Camp wrote:
Hi
Like pretty much every other rubidium on the planet - no, not as far as I know.
Most of the test points and adjustments are of the even if we told you, you aren't set up to use it nature. Put another way, they would have to provide a lot of proprietary information to enable
Don Latham wrote:
I've fixed shafts like this carefully with plastic swizzle sticks and
super glue. Did I say carefully? a little dab'll do ya...
Don
It is a tricky business. The 5370A I got a while back, had what was left
of the shaft glued into the bushing by an earlier repair attempt.
listings.
BTW, in the name fluke.l, the letter after the '.' is lower case L, not
one (as has been mistyped on recent postings.)
Unless you enjoy the challenge of reinventing this GPS-timing wheel, I'd
suggest buying one of these reasonably priced units.
-Rex
ashle...@aol.com wrote:
Hi
Kit Scally wrote:
...
On a related topic, I found some while ago - and promptly lost - a
graph/chart showing harmonic level variations with varying duty-cycle of
an input waveform. This was to some degree a graphical representation
of the Wenzel document referenced by Bruce recently. Has
paul swed wrote:
It also helps to simply clean the stuff. A bit of soap
and water and scrubbing gets years of grunge off.
I have found that Bug and Tar Remover, sold to clean cars, works well on
front panels. It seems to be strong enough to soften label gunk, but not
strong enough to mar
-in programs and anti-virus to see if I can find a conflict.
Geraldo Lino de Campos wrote:
It works fine for me. Windows XP SP2, Firefox 3.5.7, DELL Inspiron 1525.
Message: 5
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:50:15 -0800
From: Rex r...@sonic.net
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] FW: HeyWhatsThat: January 15
again, but I never saw the horrible hanging condition that I
had before. So it is slightly puzzling why I never saw that again, but I
did find a solution, so I won't worry about any fine points of problem
explanation.
-Rex
John Allen wrote:
Hi Rex - I suspect that you have a video driver bug
be running this tool.
Do you have any connection to the page owner? Can you pass this report on?
-Rex
John Allen wrote:
Hi Rex, sorry to hear that. Apparently the page uses a new Google Earth
plugin (For Firefox). Google Earth is known for it's demands on hardware,
particularly Graphics memory
The link doesn't play nice on my machine. The page opens in Firefox
browser and shows some simple graphic of the earth with some clickable
spots (I think). Then I see a message from my firewall that Google Earth
is going out to the internet and all goes weird. The page gets new
grainy overlays
Were you guys around (about a year back, I think) when this reference
was mentioned?
http://www.voltagestandard.com/
Seems like excellent price/performance to me. I see he has a more
accurate, more expensive model too.
paul swed wrote:
Wow thats a nice chip indeed
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at
Steve Rooke wrote:
Bah humbug! Stupid modern day design, it'll never be any good, you
need to use valves to make real gear :-)
Steve
Being an Amurkan myself, by valves, I assume you are talking about a
hydraulic clock. Yep. That's pretty old school. But we could step back
to sundials or
Just for the record, here is a web page that may have helped:
http://www.realhamradio.com/gps-satstat-software.htm
I'd also recommend that you check out Ulrich's Z38XX program, as Brian
recommended.
dave powis wrote:
Many thanks to those who've responded so quickly! Please don't waste any
Bob Camp wrote:
One tradeoff is weather heavy cooling of the water (5C) makes sense or not.
I think weather cooling is much too unstable and unpredictable.
Especially with global warming. :-)
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