[time-nuts] Affordable PoE 6-digit time displays?

2018-06-15 Thread Mark Sims
You could also run Lady Heather on a PI with NTP and select one of the zoomed full screen clock displays (analog watch or digital clock). ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to

[time-nuts] where can I purchase 794.7 nm VCSEL for building CPT rubidium clock?

2018-06-11 Thread Mark Sims
Well, no. Green laser pointers convert a rather high power 800 nm laser to 1600 nm in one crystal then divide it to 533 nm in another one. The physics and manufacturing of them is best described as black magic. They are cheap because China developed the process to grow the crystals in bulk

[time-nuts] Cheap-ish PRS-10 rubidiums on Ebay

2018-06-09 Thread Mark Sims
There is a guy selling some (5) PRS-10's on Ebay for $170. Says pulled from decommissioned systems, but sold for parts. No telling if they are any good... They are listed as being "used" and not "for parts"... which I think means Ebay says you can return them.

[time-nuts] Question about Lady Heather millisecond display

2018-06-06 Thread Mark Sims
That is exactly what it should be doing... it shows the time of arrival of the receiver time message is varying by around a millisecond. --- > However, when entering this command the three millisecond digits do appear but only alternate back and forth every several seconds between

[time-nuts] nuts about position

2018-06-05 Thread Mark Sims
The typical receiver default self-surveys of 30 minutes to 2 hours are not ideal. They will not include a lot of satellites or the effects of multi-path over time. A survey of at least 12 hours is needed to include all the sats. 24-48 hours is even better. The effects of things like

[time-nuts] nuts about position

2018-06-05 Thread Mark Sims
The tripod is a survey grade tripod on a limestone terrace (in a horrible location for an antenna). Heather's precision survey uses the receiver's reported position data. It does not take advantage of carrier phase/pseduorange/doppler data and post-processing. Unlike the simple averaging

[time-nuts] nuts about position

2018-06-05 Thread Mark Sims
I did Lady Heather's 48-hour precision survey on an NVS-08 receiver and collected RINEX data at the same time. The NVS was tracking GPS and SBAS satellites. The RINEX result had lat/lon/alt error estimates of .175/.153/.396 meters. The difference between Heather's precision survey results and

[time-nuts] nuts about position

2018-06-03 Thread Mark Sims
As far as I'm concerned anything that you can do to improve the position accuracy, environmental changes, noise environment, etc is a good thing. Minimizing errors and disturbances can't hurt and may even improve things. How much any improvement provides ... ??? But time nuts tend to

[time-nuts] nuts about position

2018-06-03 Thread Mark Sims
I did a test on a 1 second vs a stripped out 10 second rate from the same 24 hour run. The differences were down in the noise. Some people have actually reported slightly better results with 30 second vs 1 second data... but I doubt that... I suspect they used different data sets and the

[time-nuts] nuts about position

2018-06-03 Thread Mark Sims
I haven't done any extensive testing of how accurate the results are, but comparing them to the position produced by a L1/L2 (error ellipses < 50mm) they seem to be correct. One issue to be aware of is that some receivers want altitude in othometric height (MSL) and others use geoid (GPS)

[time-nuts] nuts about position

2018-06-02 Thread Mark Sims
Well, with a little prodding and help from Magnus, I now have the Trimble devices outputting RINEX files. They have pseudorange, doppler, and signal strength observations. A 5 hour 1Hz run was sent to CSRS-PPP and the lat/lon/alt error ellipses were in the 250/250/700 mm range... that

[time-nuts] nuts about position

2018-06-02 Thread Mark Sims
I repeated the two-receiver test, this time comparing 10 hours of 1 Hz measurements from an LEA-4T with NVS-08C measurments. The NVS has higher resolution RAW data measurements. But, again, the differences in the error ellipses were in the 2-4 mm range.

[time-nuts] nuts about position

2018-05-31 Thread Mark Sims
I did another test to see if the M8T offered any positioning advantage over the old (and cheap) LEA-4T and LEA-5T devices. I drove the M8T and LEA-4T with the same antenna, collected data for 12 hours, beamed the RINEX files to Canada. The results matched to within 3mm... so, again, the

[time-nuts] nuts about position

2018-05-30 Thread Mark Sims
Ok, I did the experiment. I took an 8 hour M8T RINEX file with GPS,SBAS,GLONASS,GALILEO data in it. I then used to TEQC to extract GPS only and GLONASS only data (CSRS-PPP ignores SBAS and GALILEO data). The 95% confidence error ellipse estimates ("rapid" orbits) were: GPS+GLONASS:lat

[time-nuts] nuts about position

2018-05-29 Thread Mark Sims
I finally got in the Ublox M8T and have been testing its RAW data measurements (carrier phase / pseudorange / dopper) data by having Lady Heather write a RINEX file and sending it to CSRS-PPP. Collecting GPS, SBAS, GLONAS, and GALILEO data (CSRS-PPP ignores GALILEO and BEIDOU data) for 2 hours

[time-nuts] Ublox M8T question

2018-05-23 Thread Mark Sims
I have it working now.The problem was the way I was interpreting the satellite system gnssid:svid values in the RAWX message. Basically the data for all the sat systems were being mapped to GPS prns. Heather has a command for configuring which GNSS constellations that you want to use.

[time-nuts] Ublox M8T question

2018-05-23 Thread Mark Sims
I recently got in a Ublox M8T board in from CSGSHOP. The M8T supposedly outputs raw measurements (carrier phase, pseudorange, doppler) for all the sat systems it supports, but I am only getting raw measurements for GPS and SBAS... no Glonass or Galaileo.Any ideas why? Has anybody gotten

[time-nuts] Antenna cable delay compensation

2018-05-21 Thread Mark Sims
A related question is: Do you use positive or negative numbers to set the antenna cable delay value? Again, most GPS receiver documentation does not say.I think that I've only seen it explicitly mentioned in the Trimble documentation and the Oscilloquartz Star-4 documentation. Also there

[time-nuts] NEO-M8N vs. NEO-M8T

2018-05-21 Thread Mark Sims
One thing to look out for when messing with sawtooth messages is the question of does the message come out before or after the PPS pulse... good look finding the answer in the receiver documentation... "After" seems to be the most common answer. That makes hardware/delay line compensation

[time-nuts] NEO-M8N vs. NEO-M8T

2018-05-21 Thread Mark Sims
Yes, the Ublox sends ps... whatever software that is processing the message is scaling it wrong. And labeling it wrong... qErr:-0.00105210 ps... that aint' right... no way... no how.. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To

[time-nuts] NEO-M8N vs. NEO-M8T

2018-05-21 Thread Mark Sims
It looks like you have slipped a decimal point somewhere (also that "ps" label is wrong). I have an M8N running here and the report sawtooth errors are all within a +/- 10 ns span. (and LEA-5T is +/- 5ns). --- > Class: TIM(0xd) ID: TP(0x1), len: 0x10

[time-nuts] ✘NEO-M8N vs. NEO-M8T

2018-05-21 Thread Mark Sims
Lady Heather can configure the various time pulse / PPS outputs on the Ublox receivers. (P keyboard menu) If the receiver supports sawtooth data, the current sawtooth value will be shown at the top of the screen (second column). It can also be shown in the plot area (GD will toggle the

[time-nuts] ✘NEO-M8N vs. NEO-M8T

2018-05-20 Thread Mark Sims
I think what Gary really wants is a GPS receiver with the most stable PPS output available. That is probably the Furuno GT-8736... 1.7 nsec sawtooth error. Typical PPS span is +/- 4 nsec. Also, the Trimble Thunderbolt has 0 sawtooth error. ___

[time-nuts] ✘NEO-M8N vs. NEO-M8T

2018-05-20 Thread Mark Sims
The sawtooth value is in the 0x0D-0x01 (TIM-TP) message. Third value, called qErr. 32-bit dword. In picoseconds. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow

[time-nuts] ✘NEO-M8N vs. NEO-M8T

2018-05-20 Thread Mark Sims
Most of the post-processing services use reference stations that are surveyed and verified to mm level accuracy. The 13 reference stations used by AUSPOS were uncertainties all less than 4/4/8 mm. Unfortuenatly some of the baselines were rather long. My antenna is swimming in multi-path and

[time-nuts] ✘NEO-M8N vs. NEO-M8T

2018-05-20 Thread Mark Sims
The main significant difference between the M8N and M8T is the fact that the M8T can output raw data (and sawtooth). The hardware is the same so there should not be much difference PPS wise between the two. I have Lady Heather's RINEX writer working pretty well. Tested with the

[time-nuts] WTB: HP/Agilent/Symmetricom 58517A Distribution Amplifier

2018-05-18 Thread Mark Sims
Well, not strictly L1. I have a 58517A connected to an Ashtech Z12. It does report good signal levels on the L2 data (same range as the L1 signals)... but the Z12 L2 results are rather noisy and I don't get a very accurate solution. Also the '517A does seem to work OK with Galileo and

[time-nuts] Thunderbolt code phase measurement

2018-05-16 Thread Mark Sims
I was losing messages for up to 4 seconds on some of the receivers (ResT?) so I commented out that message request. I need to go back and do some tests to see which ones are actually affected. --- > By "hosing" do you mean that you lose messages for the next second? That was

[time-nuts] Thunderbolt code phase measurement

2018-05-16 Thread Mark Sims
Many thanks Peter for confirming what I suspected. The problem with the Trimble receivers is that requesting the satellite C/A code data can hose up a lot of them. So, I'm stuck with calculating the integer number of milliseconds. How to do that? I do know my position to a few feet. I

[time-nuts] Thunderbolt code phase measurement

2018-05-15 Thread Mark Sims
The Trimble Thunderbolt has a message (0x5A) that outputs raw receiver measurement data. One value is "code phase" (along with PRN, sample length, sig level, dopple, and time-of-measurement). This is a single precision floating point number in units of 1/16 of a chip. Does anybody know how

[time-nuts] TruePosition GPSDO Holdover Issues

2018-05-15 Thread Mark Sims
Lasy Heather can read a receiver data capture file as a "simulation" file. Use the /rs=filename command line option. You can also specify the /0 command line option (don't use serial port) and /rx= command line option to specify the receiver type. The simulation file reads in at around

[time-nuts] Ashtech Z12 question.

2018-05-11 Thread Mark Sims
The "new" Z12 from Ebay came in today. Works fine (except bad memory backup batteries). So antenna, power supply, cables are OK. Replacing the memory backup batteries is fairly easy, except for the gazillion and three screw to open it up. A pair of memory batteries costs around $15. I

[time-nuts] Ublox Galileo/Beidou PRNs

2018-05-11 Thread Mark Sims
Does anybody know how Ublox maps their reported PRNs for Galileo and Beidou satellites to the true satellite PRNs. What little there is on the web appears on the web is rather incorrect. For Galileo I have seen Ublox PRNs from 212 to 240. That seems to imply it might be ACTUAL =

[time-nuts] Ashtech Z12 question.

2018-05-11 Thread Mark Sims
Antenna is good... it is feeding an HP amplified splitter which goes to 7 other receivers. And yes, it died in the middle of a run. I have another Z12 coming from Ebay... -- > Rats. Is the antenna known to be good? Is the Z12 providing bias on the antenna cable? Did the Z12

[time-nuts] nuts about position (cheap receiver)

2018-05-10 Thread Mark Sims
I have Lady Heather's RINEX writer working fairly well. Handles GPS and GLONASS (should also do Galileo when the M8T comes in from Germany... was "in stock" but it took them over a week to ship it). I just did a run on the Furuno GT-8736. It only outputs pseudoranges. A 2.5 hour run @ 1Hz

[time-nuts] Ashtech Z12 question.

2018-05-10 Thread Mark Sims
Well, my Z12 stopped tracking sats yesterday. It passes all self-tests. I then replaced the memory backup batteries... it fixed the bootup error problem, but still won't track sats. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe,

[time-nuts] Ashtech Z12 question.

2018-05-06 Thread Mark Sims
I just added support for the Z12 to Lady Heather and fired up my Z12 for the first time in a few years. It powers up in some kind of a weird loopback mode and you have to reset the receiver memory to get it working. Does the Z12 have an internal memory backup battery? Mine is currently

[time-nuts] WWVB: measuring local 60 KHz noise

2018-05-05 Thread Mark Sims
Although it does not measure propagation delays, Lady Heather can now estimate propagation delays. You can enter the lat/lon/alt of the station or specify the station name. You can enter the ionosphere height, or Heather will estimate it depending upon the month. --- >

[time-nuts] nuts about position (cheap receiver)

2018-05-04 Thread Mark Sims
You could add doppler to the RINEX file. All the receivers with raw messages seem to output that. I am playing with the Furuno GT87 output. It does not output carrier phase data (only pseudorange / doppler / SNR). CSRS-PPP can still process that. On the first run (3 hours of data,

[time-nuts] nuts about position (cheap receiver)

2018-05-03 Thread Mark Sims
To give an idea about the possible improvement in antenna location available by post-processing the data, I first did a 2 hour self-survey and that put the receiver into position hold mode. Then I collected RINEX data for 16 hours. The post-processed lat/lon/alt values differed around 1/1/3

[time-nuts] nuts about position (cheap receiver)

2018-05-03 Thread Mark Sims
Woohoo! Success!I sent a RINEX 2.10 formatted .obs file generated by Heather from a Ublox 5 to Canada for post-processing. The results matched those from RTKLIB processing to within 1mm. Oh, and on noth cases the post-processing used the "emu" orbit info. I haven't heard back from

[time-nuts] nuts about position (cheap receiver)

2018-05-02 Thread Mark Sims
The goal is to make it as simple as possible and have Heather do all the receiver configuring, data capture, and RINEX making... with none of that tedious mucking about in RTKLIB Currently all I have to do is fire up Heather and tell it to write a log file with the .obs extension.

[time-nuts] nuts about position (cheap receiver)

2018-05-02 Thread Mark Sims
I tried submitting Version 3 files to several services... none support Version 3!Heather now creates the uglier/less readable Version 2.10 RINEX, ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to

[time-nuts] nuts about position (cheap receiver)

2018-05-02 Thread Mark Sims
G... Canada lives in the dark ages and does not accept RINEX version 3... I'm now trying Australia... Version 3 is cleaner and easier to write than Version 2... ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to

[time-nuts] nuts about position (cheap receiver)

2018-05-02 Thread Mark Sims
For the orbits is says "Precise", so maybe not even the hourly ones. I could not find any mention of emu, emr, or igs. Heather can now spit out Rinex 3.02 files (at least for GPS/SBAS sats).I am currently feeding Heather the .raw capture file I sent to Canada and outputting a RINEX .OBS

[time-nuts] nuts about position (cheap receiver)

2018-05-02 Thread Mark Sims
Well, I processed the Lady Heather .raw capture file from the $24 LEA-5T through RTKCONV and submitted it to CSRS-PPP and it worked. Using the less precise instant orbits it says the 95% sigma errors are: lat: 0.169m lon:0.148m alt: 0.399m My antenna is that Chinese L1/L2/Glonass/etc

[time-nuts] nuts about position (cheap receiver)

2018-05-01 Thread Mark Sims
There are some sellers on Ebay LEA-5T receivers on Ebay for cheap. They are pin and layout compatible with the Trimble Resolution-T devices. I bought a couple from this guy ($24 each) and they do output the RAW and SFRB messages. He also has LEA-4T and Trimble boards. There are also other

[time-nuts] nuts about position

2018-05-01 Thread Mark Sims
I added some debug log info that shows how many bytes the receiver sent between time messages. The LEA-6T sends around 500-600 bytes every second. That fits easily into 9600 baud. The M8N tracking all sats and with all the raw messages enabled spews around 4000 bytes. That would require

[time-nuts] nuts about position

2018-04-30 Thread Mark Sims
Heather now requests the RAW and RAWX messages... those output carrier phase, doppler, and pseudo ranges.The M8N does not support either, but the M8T supports RAWX. Heather now requests the SFRB and SFRBX messages... those output the satellite navigation messages. All the M8's output

[time-nuts] nuts about position

2018-04-30 Thread Mark Sims
I once spent way too much time trying to get Heather to spit out a RINEX file from a Thunderbolt. I could never get any of the post-processors to accept it. The Thunderbolt's raw data needs to somehow be tweaked to be compatible and I didn't really know what I was doing. A LEA-6T seems to

[time-nuts] nuts about position

2018-04-30 Thread Mark Sims
Coincidentally, yesterday I tweaked up Lady Heather's Ublox code to enable all of the necessary raw data messages. Heather also enables the raw messages from Trimble TSIP speaking receivers, the NVS CSM24 receiver, and the Furuno GT87 receiver (if baud rate is >=115200). Heather can write a

[time-nuts] nuts about position

2018-04-26 Thread Mark Sims
You will probably have a some difficulty finding a surveyor that does geodetic/mm accuracy surveys. Most surveyors that use GPS seem to work down to inches/a few cm. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to

[time-nuts] nuts about position

2018-04-25 Thread Mark Sims
I don't know if you can easily see earth tides with a GPS... the post-processing services usually filter and correct them out. But, Lady Heather v6 can model and plot them (as lat/lon/alt displacements in mm). Also the vertical component of the gravity offset (in ugals)

[time-nuts] Cheap jitter measurements

2018-04-25 Thread Mark Sims
Lady Heather v6 supports the TAPR TICC. It has most of the functionality of Timelab (but not as pretty), runs on Linux,etc, and can process both channel s(actually 4 channels if you have two TICCs). You can use it either as the main input device or as an auxiliary input device in

[time-nuts] nuts about position

2018-04-25 Thread Mark Sims
When in was developing Lady Heather's precision survey code I was comparing the calculated positions to those from an Ashtech Z12 dual freq GPS (with the position calculated by OPUS). Using the same survey grade antenna and a Thunderbolt the results were usually within a meter. I have not

[time-nuts] Better quartz crystals with single isotope ?

2018-04-22 Thread Mark Sims
Single isotope diamond is 50% better thermal conductivity of normal diamond. It has been used in laser optics and thermal transfer applications (semiconductor heatsinks). I think the highest reported thermal transfer rate used isotopically pure diamond etched with micro-fluidic channels

[time-nuts] Introduction & GPSDO Question

2018-04-19 Thread Mark Sims
I'm not sure if Heather v5 works with all of those those receivers (I think you have what us known as a "UCCM" receiver... these are pulls from telecom equipment). If you are on Windows, you might want to try the v6 Beta code. Install the v5 from ke5fx.com, then download the v6 .exe from

[time-nuts] getting accurate timing on RTL-SDR output

2018-04-13 Thread Mark Sims
Note that on a lot of GPS devices that only one edge of the 1PPS pulse is stable and the other edge can jitter a bit. Also, you might want to try programming the PPS to a 50% duty cycle (but having an asymmetrical PPS pulse might have some advantages for post processing). The receiver with the

[time-nuts] RINEX for Android

2018-04-12 Thread Mark Sims
Lady Heather will write raw data capture files from any of the devices that it supports. It can also read them in as a simulation file (except for "polled" receivers where you have to explicitly poll the receivers for each piece of data you want... the polling queries are not written to the

[time-nuts] Holdover: Z3801A vs KS-24361

2018-04-12 Thread Mark Sims
SS is signal strength. CN is carrier to noise ratio. They basically indicate the same thing, but their scale may be different. You can't compare the absolute magnitude of the values from different types of receivers, only do relative comparisons. Other receivers can report dBc, etc.

[time-nuts] Environmental sensor recommendations

2018-04-06 Thread Mark Sims
By comparing how much the DAC voltage changed with temperature. Heather can calculate the OCXO EFC sensitivity (Hz/volt). Combine that with the DAC setting and you get Hz/degree. --- > How did you measure temperature sensitivity

[time-nuts] Environmental sensor recommendations

2018-04-06 Thread Mark Sims
I replaced the OCXO on one of my Thunderbolts with an Oscilloquartz 8663 and the temperature sensitivity went down by about 2/3, so I always assumed the main contributor was the OCXO. I didn't try mod-ing any other Tbolts. I also tried temperature stabilizing the power supply and it seemed

[time-nuts] Environmental sensor recommendations

2018-04-05 Thread Mark Sims
Digital temperature sensors have some advantages (like nice factory calibration), but also so issues. The IIC/SPI ones need to be mounted to a PCB and also have quite a bit of thermal mass. They also need 4-6 wire cables. They are hard to attach directly to a point that you want to

[time-nuts] Environmental sensor recommendations

2018-04-05 Thread Mark Sims
Long ago I did a board for evaluating high power LEDs and drivers. Iit was called Luxor and if you look through the Lady Heather code, you will see references to it. It has all the functionality (and them some) needed for an environmental sensor and temperature controller. It has 4 dual

[time-nuts] Environmental sensor recommendations

2018-04-05 Thread Mark Sims
I looked at the TEMPer devices, but almost all of them seem to be HID devices that emulate a digi-monkey typing on a keyboard... tis' not something Heather wants to work with. Also, none of them seem to do air pressure. They do have a device that does temperature and humidity and can emulate

[time-nuts] Environmental sensor recommendations

2018-04-04 Thread Mark Sims
Lady Heather has a very nice temperature control PID in it (designed by Warren Sarkisen). It was originally designed to stabilize the temperature of a Thunderbolt GPSDO. The standard Thunderbolt OCXO is rather temperature sensitive. The standard/simple implementation involves sticking the

[time-nuts] Cheap jitter measurements

2018-04-04 Thread Mark Sims
The TICC is a very nice device. A LOT of bang for the buck.Highly recommended. Lady Heather supports it (you can actually connect two for 4 channel operation) and can run under Linux. It provides most of the basic functionality of Timelab (with less pretty plots).

[time-nuts] Environmental sensor recommendations

2018-04-04 Thread Mark Sims
I recently (mostly) finished adding external environmental sensor support to Lady Heather. You can use the sensor as the primary "receiver" device or in conjunction with any of the "receivers" that Lady Heather supports (except currently the HP-5071A which uses the same plot queue entries as

[time-nuts] quartz / liquid nitrogen

2018-04-02 Thread Mark Sims
And you want your semiconductors to be in ceramic/lided packages with the bond wires flapping in free air. Bond wires embedded in epoxy like to break... don't ask how I found this out ;-) ... it brings back bad memories... and makes bad memories... Quantum chips have very

[time-nuts] TV Signals as a frequency reference

2018-04-02 Thread Mark Sims
Here's a local guy's take on monitoring time and DST errors on the stations in the Dallas area: http://home.earthlink.net/~schultdw/atsc/ ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to

[time-nuts] TV Signals as a frequency reference

2018-04-02 Thread Mark Sims
I read that there is a requirement that the time data in the PSIP data stream has to be within one second. I have an over-the-air DVR that would mess up the time and recordings because it was originally not filtering the times the stations broadcast. They finally modified the DVR firmware

[time-nuts] New GNSS chipsets

2018-04-02 Thread Mark Sims
I was measuring the jitter and adevs of the PPS signal from a GT-8736. GPS only seems to be slightly better (1-3 ns more span) than GPS+GLONASS. GLONASS only seems have around 50% more jitter than GPS only. Glonaas only adevs are 3 times as large as GPS only (at tau=1 seconds).

[time-nuts] Lady Heather BST command line question

2018-04-01 Thread Mark Sims
Ooops, that should have been /b=2 to select the European time zone rule! ___ 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.

[time-nuts] Lady Heather BST command line question

2018-04-01 Thread Mark Sims
Try: /b=1 (sets European time change rule) /tz=0GMT/BST (sets time zone offset and names... and thats the number 0, not the letter O) It should then automatically switch between the time and time zone names according to the rule. For non-standard places, you can

[time-nuts] GPS System Message (was: TV Signals as a frequency reference)

2018-03-31 Thread Mark Sims
Or on the GPS/GNSS signals... I was verifying Lady Heather's support for the old SV6/Palisade/Acutime receivers and came across a mention of the "GPS System Message" command. It is requested by TSIP packet 0x28 and returns packet 0x48. Newer Trimble receivers (like the Resolution-T don't

[time-nuts] Teardown of Chinese made eBay GPS antenna.

2018-03-28 Thread Mark Sims
I can confirm that they work well on Glonass and Beidou. I have not tried them on my Z12 with L2 signals. Last night a big lightning strike across the street took out a tree. Antenna survived without damage, but my antenna is on a 3 foot tripod on the ground... it was quite a

[time-nuts] Setting correct date on Trimble Thunderbolt receiver

2018-03-28 Thread Mark Sims
Thanks, excellent code to do the fixup on Arduinos, etc. Heather already has Julian <-> Gregorian routines that use double precision numbers and allows date/time tweaks to millisecond levels, so I used those. I am modifying the rollover adjustment code to not latch onto a specific rollover

[time-nuts] Setting correct date on Trimble Thunderbolt receiver

2018-03-28 Thread Mark Sims
Lady Heather's automatic rollover fixer works by looking at the year in any time message that it sees. If it sees 10 consecutive year values less than 2016, it assumes the receiver has rollover issues and then adds 1024 weeks worth of seconds to the Julian date/time calculated from the

[time-nuts] Looking for information on True Position GPSDO.

2018-03-20 Thread Mark Sims
When I dumped the flash rom from one of the TruePosition units, we found a couple of commands that seem related to OCXO learning. They are discussed a little in the thread on EEVBLOG. > If you *do* go swapping around OCXO’s (or whatever) on a GPSDO board, it’s very nice to

[time-nuts] Looking for information on True Position GPSDO.

2018-03-18 Thread Mark Sims
The magic word is $PROCEED. There is quite a bit of info about these on eevblog.com https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/gpsdo-loss-of-satellitesfix-troubleshooting/ Lady Heather v6 Beta supports these. If you have v5 installed from ke5fx.com, you can get the .exe for v6 from here or if you

[time-nuts] Furuno GT-87

2018-03-18 Thread Mark Sims
The TICC reference is a HP-5071A cesium beam oscillator with high performance tube. The GT-87 is connected to the TICC channel B input. The TICC is running in timestamp mode. The orange plot is the Time Interval Error of the 1PPS signal... the difference between 1 second and the measured

[time-nuts] Furuno GT-87

2018-03-16 Thread Mark Sims
I re-confgured the GT-87 to just use GPS satellites (the posted data had GPS, SBAS, and GLONASS enabled). The 1PPS span was mostly +/- 2.5 ns, with a few excursions to the +/- 3.5 ns range. I'll try GLONASS only next. I looks like Furuno is not going to add Galileo support to the GT-87

[time-nuts] Power line frequency monitoring using a PICPET

2018-03-13 Thread Mark Sims
I kludged up a very simple power line interface (3VAC transformer -> 10K resistor -> diode -> PICPET) and fed the (unfiltered) output into a PICPET. The PICPET was clocked using a 10 MHz TTL oscillator. I used Lady Heather to capture and analyze the data. It was measuring the time interval

[time-nuts] Recommendations for Mains Power Monitor / Logger

2018-03-13 Thread Mark Sims
Lady Heather v6 now supports the PICPET. I don't think it would like a 60 Hz input, though. When testing receivers with a high navigation rate (like over 20 Hz) it gets overwhelmed processing the data stream and updating the screen. It might work with the PICPET since the sole message that

[time-nuts] FURUNO GT-80 for Brandywine GPS-4

2018-03-10 Thread Mark Sims
The GT80 is a family of devices including the 8031 and 8037. Perhaps posting a picture would help. ___ 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

[time-nuts] FURUNO GT-80 for Brandywine GPS-4

2018-03-09 Thread Mark Sims
I don't know which receiver is in the GPS-4. Open yours up and take a peek... I do know the GPS-4 uses $PFEC commands. I have a 8031 and Lady Heather works with it. I have an 8037, but don't know what command set it uses... yet. --- > Would these other modules be

[time-nuts] FURUNO GT-80 for Brandywine GPS-4

2018-03-09 Thread Mark Sims
There are Furuno GT-8031's and GT-8037's listed on Ebay for cheap-ish. Tge 8031 is a small (around 1x1") module with an antenna pigtail with a H.FL connector on it. The 8037 looks like a Motoroa M12 board with a MMCX connector. ___ time-nuts

[time-nuts] Frequency deviations in Europe affect clocks

2018-03-07 Thread Mark Sims
A more detailed explanation of what is happening: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/03/ovens-across-europe-display-the-wrong-time-due-to-a-serbia-kosovo-grid-dispute/ ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to

[time-nuts] TymServe TS2100 dead power supply

2018-03-07 Thread Mark Sims
I once looked into adding IRIG generation to Lady Heather. I never came up with a reliable / robust way to do it. It could possibly be done with some of the Windows multi-media support, but that would leave the Linux/macOS/FreeBSD people in the dark. I just added TS2100 support to Lady

[time-nuts] Ultra low power RTC

2018-03-07 Thread Mark Sims
A friend of mine is a product engineer for one of the largest (the largest?) makers of RTC chips. He groans about the (rather pointless) quest for the lowest power RTC chips. Making robust, stable, accurate oscillators that run at nanowatts is a losing proposition. At those levels external

[time-nuts] Ultra low power RTC

2018-03-07 Thread Mark Sims
Probably 20+ years for a lithium coin cell... basically the shelf life of the cell. I have a card of 24 year old CR-2032's that are still above 3V, and no sign of leakage. BTW, never handle a coin cell (particularly in watch applications) with your fingers... your grubby fingerprints are

[time-nuts] Ultra low power RTC

2018-03-06 Thread Mark Sims
Sparkfun is selling an interesting RTC clock chip board. It draws 22 nA. It has a rather novel clock generator... a tuning fork crystal disciplines an RC oscillator every few minutes. They claim 3 minutes per year drift. https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14642

[time-nuts] Z3801A OCXO manual trimming

2018-03-05 Thread Mark Sims
I'm not sure what the Z3801A uses for EFC range. Heather uses the EFC relative command to report the EFC setting. That command reports values from -100% to 100%. There is a command that reports the DAC input in counts, but nothing documented that shows volts/count. Since the DAC is at -2V

[time-nuts] TymServe TS2100 dead power supply

2018-03-05 Thread Mark Sims
First check for power / ground shorts on the power supply outputs with an ohm meter. There is a good chance of a shorted tantalum cap somewhere in the system shutting down the supply. If the power supply is connected to the system via a connector, disconnect it from the system and see if

[time-nuts] Z3801A OCXO manual trimming

2018-03-05 Thread Mark Sims
Or, it you are sure it's the OCXO, go shopping for a new one.There is a reputable seller with them (the double oven version) for $100 on Ebay. A couple of things to try... monitor the EFC voltage, power up the unit, and see if it is changing as it attempts to lock. If it does not, you

[time-nuts] WWV or Net Clock controlled oscillator

2018-03-05 Thread Mark Sims
I've been known to use the egg timer mode in the kitchen... I get distracted easily and burned food has been known to occur. Due to system vagaries, it is probably only accurate to say 30 milliseconds (better on Linux, of course), so less than perfect eggs are possible. I've thought about

[time-nuts] WWV or Net Clock controlled oscillator

2018-03-05 Thread Mark Sims
The university that I hang out at has a clock tower with a full set of bells. Several years ago the tower and bells were restored, at hefty expense. But, alas, some no-goodnik neighbors objected to the sound, so they cut back the use of the clock. I don't know what system they use to get

[time-nuts] X72 and 1pps

2018-03-04 Thread Mark Sims
> I can´t find this option - I can toggle the PPS output, but not the input. OK, I remember now... the X72/SA22 with firmware disciplining have a bit in the control reg that reports if a PPS input has been seen. I found some obscure reference that implied you could disable the PPS input, but

[time-nuts] Z3801A OCXO manual trimming

2018-03-04 Thread Mark Sims
Oops... I checked and the Z38xx devices don't have a DAC setting command. It was the UCCM GPSDOs that have a SCPI command for controlling the DAC manually, - > When I press "D" Lady Heather replies: Manual disciplining not supported by this receiverpress ESC

[time-nuts] Z3801A OCXO manual trimming

2018-03-04 Thread Mark Sims
Lady Heather has a command that lets you set the DAC voltage. It's in the "D" menu. Depending upon the firmware, you may need to disable disciplining first (also in the "D" menu). If the DAC command works to change the OCXO freq, the osc EFC and DAC are probably OK. If it does not, I'd

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