Re: [time-nuts] 5 MHz Frequency Doubler

2006-10-26 Thread Tim Shoppa
display in my junkbox has special characters like square root, Hz, and muV and mV on it! Yet again, mid-20th century technology beats out modern LCD panels! (Sorry for the glee, but I hate LCD panels on everything.) Tim. ___ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts

Re: [time-nuts] How to measure Allan Deviation?

2006-10-22 Thread Tim Shoppa
for much larger scale jitter measurements). Tim. ___ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts

Re: [time-nuts] The VE2ZAZ GPSDO

2006-10-21 Thread Tim Shoppa
be to contribute an improvement (preferably with schematic) rather than a lengthy textual or mathematical criticism. Tim. ___ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts

Re: [time-nuts] The VE2ZAZ GPSDO

2006-10-21 Thread Tim Shoppa
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Shoppa) wrote: Having seen some bad vibes unfold through the channels of the letters column and other communications with editors, I think that BY FAR the most useful thing to do would be to contribute an improvement (preferably with schematic) rather than a lengthy

Re: [time-nuts] Features of a Precision Clock - Grid

2006-10-07 Thread Tim Shoppa
measurements was comparing the wall clock to WWV. In other words, not very high-tech by the measurement standards of many here! Tim. ___ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts

Re: [time-nuts] Time interval interpolation by sampling a pair of sinewaves in quadrature.

2006-09-26 Thread Tim Shoppa
, but not with DAC's and computers...) Tim. ___ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts

Re: [time-nuts] Ugly Frequency Dividers

2006-08-09 Thread Tim Shoppa
if this is a defect of the educational materials replicated throughout the decades or what. The ring counter is not a one-trick-pony, instead it solves (AUTOMATICALLY) all the glitches encountered with decoding states from binary counters. Tim. ___ time

Re: [time-nuts] Z3801 lockin behaviour

2006-07-23 Thread Tim Shoppa
for short periods of time. Tim. ___ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts

Re: [time-nuts] Thought experiment on a low cost timing board

2006-02-25 Thread Tim Shoppa
John Pettitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Shoppa wrote: My gut feeling: back up a little bit. Figure out how to do what you want without a PCI bus, without gold fingers, without BGA's, etc. I had several goals in mind when I asked the initial question: 1) a low cost high stability

Re: [time-nuts] source for ICS525 demo board ...

2006-02-17 Thread Tim Shoppa
the reference frequency would be 1 MHz, right? So we need a divide-by-5 and a divide-by-27 and a phase comparator. Dead-bug construction would be perfect. Tim. ___ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

[time-nuts] Rcvrs/xmtrs that can slave to frequency standards

2006-02-05 Thread Tim Shoppa
frequency standards? Any potential evil (phase noise?) that may come about from using a junkbox 7490 divider? Does most equipment care whether I do the divide- by-five first and then the divide-by-two, or are they happy with the funky waveform out of the divide-by-five? Tim

Re: [time-nuts] making most of SRS Rb source

2006-01-18 Thread Tim Natusch
Observatories. Have not yet had a chance to do much detailed analysis on it. Tim Tim Natusch Senior Lecturer Electrotechnology Dept. AUT ___ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts

Re: [time-nuts] List of time synchronization hardware and software

2006-01-17 Thread Tim Shoppa
hypothesis seemed to stand out...) Tim. ___ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts

Re: [time-nuts] List of time synchronization hardware and software

2006-01-16 Thread Tim Shoppa
, and some of them are regular enough that they are similar in stability as an atomic clock (how many of us have cesium beam tubes that will last for billions of years, hmmm?) Tim. ___ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin

Re: [time-nuts] Quartz assisted pendulum clock.

2006-01-05 Thread Tim Shoppa
and Clock Collectors). And as proof that there's a genetic component to our affliction, my father is a long-time member of the NAWCC, and my baby pictures are mixed in with pictures of hundreds of railroad watches :-). Tim. ___ time-nuts mailing list time

Re: [time-nuts] Happy Leap Second!

2005-12-31 Thread Tim Shoppa
favorite radio station, WWV! I still remember my freshman physics textbook, with all the gedanken experiments involving two observers, Nielsen and Arbitron... Tim. ___ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman

[time-nuts] WWV/WWVH reception conditions

2005-09-10 Thread Tim Shoppa
out of phase when I hear it. Is it possible that it's ticking to UT1, and not UTC? Last time I scoped them the difference was about 0.45 seconds. There's also a Chinese station on 5 MHz according to some charts but I don't think I've ever heard it. Tim

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