Re: [time-nuts] Trimble Thunderbolt error

2016-02-14 Thread Hans Holzach
i am located in switzerland. i checked tonight's log of my lucent ks-24361. it had perfect satellite reception during the whole night. but: i stopped logging a TI-measurement this morning because it was messed up. the reference is a Miller Simple GPSDO, the DUT a decently stable rubidium

Re: [time-nuts] Ultra High Stability Time Base Options for 53132A

2015-04-22 Thread Hans Holzach
during the last days i ran a few tests with different high stability options. setup: channel 1: thunderbolt 10 mhz divided down to 1 pps channel 2: trimble 73090 DOCXO 10 MHz divided down to 1 pps. frequency offset about 7e-9 internal time bases: no additional time base; morion mv89a; trimble

Re: [time-nuts] Ultra High Stability Time Base Options for 53132A

2015-04-12 Thread Hans Holzach
i have a 53132A and the the time base from the polish seller as well as a time base from gerry sweeny (UK) who uses a trimble 34310-T instead of the morion ocxo. both are plug and play and can be easily calibrated. i have no data, but if i remember correctly, the presence of a high stability

Re: [time-nuts] PRS10 Rubidium

2015-02-22 Thread Hans Holzach
hi jürg, dispite the fact that my prs-10 has been up and running for only about 2 years (according to FC!?), the lamp assembly looks pretty ugly (see picture) as if it was overheated quite a bit. i bought the unit from ebay, so i have no idea under what conditions it had spent its life

Re: [time-nuts] GPS leap second pending (Fury/Z38XX)

2015-01-25 Thread Hans Holzach
1st. /tvb (i5s) On Jan 25, 2015, at 3:54 AM, Hans Holzach hans.holzach at gmail.com wrote: my jackson labs fury (1.22) reports: leapsecond pending: 0 leapsecond accumulated: 16 leapsecond date: 2015,7,1 leapsecond

[time-nuts] GPS leap second pending (Fury/Z38XX)

2015-01-25 Thread Hans Holzach
my jackson labs fury (1.22) reports: leapsecond pending: 0 leapsecond accumulated: 16 leapsecond date: 2015,7,1 leapsecond duration: 60 strange... hans ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to

Re: [time-nuts] TDS12 (AKA PRS10) use indication.

2015-01-10 Thread Hans Holzach
mike, i have a prs-10, software version 3.15, serial number 5351. default lock mode is 1, default time offset is 0. the fc values have been written to the EEPROM twice in the last 20 hours. fc!? returns 233,1426,1640,1647. hans I have a SR TDS12 which apart from name appears to be a

[time-nuts] Lucent KS-24361; resolution TI 10 ns only?

2014-12-21 Thread Hans Holzach
i noticed that the resolution of the PPS TI relative to GPS is 10 ns. is there a scpi command to get a better resolution? a few trivial observations: my boxes have been up and running for a few days only, but they seem to behave pretty well. however, a few things kept me busy for a while: i

Re: [time-nuts] Price of LTE Lite GPSDO vs Trimble Thunderbolt.

2014-10-18 Thread Hans Holzach
living in switzerland, i have encountered that problem several times. ebay blocks pages from certain sellers for reasons i do not know. a good seller from china, just as an example, does not show up when i use firefeox to access ebay. same with said's pages. i recommend using the TorBrowser. it

Re: [time-nuts] Price of LTE Lite GPSDO vs Trimble Thunderbolt.

2014-10-18 Thread Hans Holzach
nope, sorry, link does not work... but these should: 20 mhz: http://www.ebay.com/itm/LTE-Lite-GPSDO-Evaluation-Kit-with-20MHz-TCXO-/171504586548?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0hash=item27ee784f34 10 mhz:

Re: [time-nuts] Ublox 7

2014-05-24 Thread Hans Holzach
bert, and how, please, are us newbies and dabblers supposed to learn from you, the elite time-nuts, when you keep your discoveries secret, only accessible to a group of hand-picked individuals? of course, this is a free world, and you, like everybody, is free to share or not to share your

Re: [time-nuts] Influence of Cycle Wraps on TInt-Measurements with53132A

2014-05-01 Thread Hans Holzach
hi tom, thank you very much! that is quite interesting. i am happy to learn that there is nothing wrong with *my* counter! converting the non-linearity effect into a correction table is beyond my abilities, but simply knowing that this effect is inherent to the 53132a counter helps a lot.

Re: [time-nuts] Influence of Cycle Wraps on TInt-Measurements with53132A

2014-05-01 Thread Hans Holzach
the steps completely. They leave small steps behind. It isn't related to the counter used, but seems to be related to the number of data points per cycle and the unwrapping algorithm used by the program. Ed On 5/1/2014 4:05 AM, Hans Holzach wrote: hi tom, thank you very much! that is quite

Re: [time-nuts] Rb vs.Crystal OCXO

2014-04-28 Thread Hans Holzach
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Re: [time-nuts] Rb vs.Crystal OCXO

2014-04-28 Thread Hans Holzach
said, if i understand correctly, while in holdover, activated by sync:hold:init, temperature and aging compensation are still active (as it should be). however, to measure drift, i have to somehow disable these compensations, haven't i? yesterday, i wrote down the values

Re: [time-nuts] Rb vs.Crystal OCXO

2014-04-28 Thread Hans Holzach
said, if i understand correctly, while in holdover, activated by sync:hold:init, temperature and aging compensation are still active (as it should be). however, to measure drift, i have to somehow disable these compensations, haven't i? yesterday, i wrote down the values of temperature and

Re: [time-nuts] Rb vs.Crystal OCXO

2014-04-28 Thread Hans Holzach
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Re: [time-nuts] Question about effect of sample interval on ADEV

2013-07-10 Thread Hans Holzach
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Re: [time-nuts] Question about effect of sample interval on ADEV

2013-07-10 Thread Hans Holzach
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Re: [time-nuts] Question about effect of sample interval on ADEV

2013-07-08 Thread Hans Holzach
FYI: I tend to record all serial (RS232/GPIB/USB/LAN) data from counters, analyzers, receivers, environmental sensors with a precision MJD prefix. This allows both tight correlation among different instruments in the lab and also allows ADEV-like tools to estimate, and then gradually refine

Re: [time-nuts] 59503A GPIB clock windows/linux software.

2013-06-03 Thread Hans Holzach
aren't much help. Hans Holzach wrote: i use a 59309A as a time and date display in a setup of old HP devices: 10 mhz are taken from a fury gpsdo to keep the clock stable. an HP 71B reads the time from the gpsdo via an HP-IL/RS-232 interface and delivers it to the clock via an HP-IL/HPIB interface

Re: [time-nuts] 59503A GPIB clock windows/linux software.

2013-06-01 Thread Hans Holzach
i use a 59309A as a time and date display in a setup of old HP devices: 10 mhz are taken from a fury gpsdo to keep the clock stable. an HP 71B reads the time from the gpsdo via an HP-IL/RS-232 interface and delivers it to the clock via an HP-IL/HPIB interface. setting the clock looks pretty

Re: [time-nuts] Relationship between fixes and time duration?

2013-05-05 Thread Hans Holzach
i only know about the fury: the scpi command GPS:POS:SURV:STAT ONCE starts an auto-survey and lasts about three hours as 10,000 acquisition points are needed. if reception is bad this may take longer. you can specify the maximal number of points with GPS:POS:SURV:MAXP [0,1]. 10,000 is the

Re: [time-nuts] problem with HP 59309A digital clock and HP IL/IB interface

2012-08-12 Thread Hans Holzach
pete, thank you for your advice. unfortunately i did not get much help there. the problem with the clock seems to be more complex than i thought. hans ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to

[time-nuts] problem with HP 59309A digital clock and HP IL/IB interface

2012-08-02 Thread Hans Holzach
hi all, i have a small collection of old HP calculators, with the hp 71b being my favourite. as a watchmaker i thought it might be a good idea to add a digital clock HP 59309A to my collection. but this cost my quite a few hours of sleep as i encountered an unexpectd problem that i