[time-nuts] GPS receivers and the Leap Second

2017-01-01 Thread Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves
Hi! In my network I have 2 Meinberg M200 clocks and 4 other GPS receivers (1 Sure GPS Evaluation board, 2 Garmin 18 LVC and a uBlox EVK-6N). I recorded the GPS timecode strings across 00:00 UTC to see how they would react to the leap second: Sure GPS

Re: [time-nuts] Legal Time dissemination

2013-06-05 Thread Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves
Hi David! On 5 June 2013 06:58, David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: Miguel, I notice a step in the blue (ntp02) graph in: http://www.flickr.com/photos/**miguelbarbosagoncalves/**8955346508/http://www.flickr.com/photos/miguelbarbosagoncalves/8955346508/ and I think in

Re: [time-nuts] Legal Time dissemination

2013-06-04 Thread Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves
Two mistakes that I spotted after clicking send... On 5 June 2013 01:57, Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves m...@mbg.pt wrote: Hi Chis! I meant Chris of course... sorry about that! I have a week's worth of data know... Take a look at the attached graphics. Not know but now of course... 2 am here

Re: [time-nuts] Legal Time dissemination

2013-06-04 Thread Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves
Hi Chris! I have a week's worth of data now... Take a look at these graphics http://www.flickr.com/photos/miguelbarbosagoncalves/8955346508/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/miguelbarbosagoncalves/8955346522/ One of them shows is the plot of the loopstats of my stratum 1 server. The other one

Re: [time-nuts] NTP Clock suggestions?

2013-05-28 Thread Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves
On 27 May 2013 18:11, David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: From: Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves [] Just checked the Windows taskbar clock and it has a 1 second delay... At work I use Windows but use Mac OS X at home... but I am looking for a solution for the Windows platform

[time-nuts] Legal Time dissemination

2013-05-28 Thread Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves
Hi! Lately I've been using the two stratum 2 servers our national observatory provides to the public mainly as backup for my GPS based local NTP servers. I've always found odd that one of them exhibited an erratic behaviour when compared to the other one. I decided to use ntpdate on one of my

Re: [time-nuts] Legal Time dissemination

2013-05-28 Thread Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves
On 28 May 2013 14:10, Gabs Ricalde gsrica...@gmail.com wrote: That looks like a server in an room with unstable temperature. Try graphing the server's frequency (ntpq rv or ntpdc loopinfo/kerninfo if enabled on the server), a rising frequency will correlate with a positive offset if that is

Re: [time-nuts] Legal Time dissemination

2013-05-28 Thread Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves
Hi Jason! On 28 May 2013 13:56, Jason Rabel ja...@extremeoverclocking.com wrote: I would do a traceroute and see if the path is the same going to both servers, that can eliminate some variables. They are on the same network and the path is the same. Beyond that it would take some

[time-nuts] NTP Clock suggestions?

2013-05-27 Thread Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves
Hi! I was wondering if anyone knows about a not so expensive wall digital clock that gets its time from an NTP server... TIA, Miguel ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to

Re: [time-nuts] NTP Clock suggestions?

2013-05-27 Thread Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves
Hi Bob! On 27 May 2013 14:56, Bob Camp li...@rtty.us wrote: Hi Correct answer: I don't think there is such a beast. Once you get away from the radio controlled (WWVB etc) clocks the cost goes up quickly. I don't understand why a microprocessor with an Ethernet controller and a 7 segment

Re: [time-nuts] NTP Clock suggestions?

2013-05-27 Thread Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves
On 27 May 2013 16:22, Chris Albertson albertson.ch...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves m...@mbg.pt wrote: Good joke :-) I imagine the electricity bill at the end of the month. I would like to have a clock sync with my super precise stratum 1

[time-nuts] Trimble Acutime Gold PPS

2013-05-19 Thread Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves
Hi! I am struggling trying to convert my Acutime's PPS signal from RS422 to RS232 for NTP use. I am using this converter: http://www.dpieshop.com/quatech -sscvt500n-rs232-to-rs422485-serial-converter-p-282.html and I connected - Port A (T+) to R+ on the converter - Port A (T-) to R- on the

Re: [time-nuts] Trimble Acutime Gold PPS

2013-05-19 Thread Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves
No dia 19/05/2013, às 22:44, Mike S mi...@flatsurface.com escreveu: On 5/19/2013 5:03 PM, Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves wrote: - Port A (T+) to R+ on the converter - Port A (T-) to R- on the converter - PPS+ to T+ on the converter - PPS- to T- on the converter On the RS232 part

Re: [time-nuts] Imagery position accuracy

2013-05-07 Thread Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves
On 07/05/2013, at 01:20, Chris Albertson albertson.ch...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves m...@mbg.pt wrote: .. You'll have to make the driver talk to the configuration / monitoring port (port B) as the timing port (port A) does not accept commands

Re: [time-nuts] Imagery position accuracy

2013-05-06 Thread Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves
On 6 May 2013 03:21, Chris Albertson albertson.ch...@gmail.com wrote: After you get the position, how does the OP (or anyone else) put the location data into the Trimble GPS receiver so that it can be used in the time solution. This is for NTP remember. Hi Chris! You can input the

[time-nuts] GPS position survey

2013-05-05 Thread Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves
Hi fellow time nuts! I've recently bought a Trimble Acutime gold that will be used as a reference clock for a NTP server. This receiver has the possibility of averaging it's position before entering what Trimble calls the overdetermined clock state. The default is to average the position with

Re: [time-nuts] GPS position survey

2013-05-05 Thread Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves
On 5 May 2013 11:51, Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk wrote: In message 8311230247672528820@unknownmsgid, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Miguel_Barbosa_Go n=E7alves?= writes: This receiver has the possibility of averaging it's position before entering what Trimble calls the overdetermined clock state.

Re: [time-nuts] GPS position survey

2013-05-05 Thread Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves
On 5 May 2013 20:18, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R c...@omen.com wrote: When doing a position survey, does Lady Heather have to be running? Or does the Thunderbolt do it by itself? I don't know about Thunderbolt but on my Acutime Gold the Windows software sends the restart survey command to the

Re: [time-nuts] nanobsd conf

2013-05-05 Thread Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves
On 27 April 2013 14:17, Mark C. Stephens ma...@non-stop.com.au wrote: Hi All, I am trying to get my head around building a nanobsd for some HP thinclients to run as stratum 1 servers. If you have the time, please send me an example conf file for sh nanobsd.sh -c myconf.nano I am unsure of

Re: [time-nuts] GPS position survey

2013-05-05 Thread Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves
On 5 May 2013 12:28, Sarah White kuze...@gmail.com wrote: I myself did a sampling over a period of 1 million samples (actually, it was a value of 2^20, not exactly 1 million) quickest it could have completed such a survey is 12+ days ... However, I had masks set for elevation, signal, etc.

Re: [time-nuts] GPS position survey

2013-05-05 Thread Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves
Hi Chris! On 06/05/2013, at 01:21, Chris Albertson albertson.ch...@gmail.com wrote: If you are talking about using this with NTP. I don't know if you have a choice. The Trimble receiver is going to do whatever it is going to do when you power it up.Software running on a PC can perform

[time-nuts] Trimble Resolution T

2012-08-06 Thread Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves
Hi! I'm looking at the Resolution T from Trimble (http://www.trimble.com/timing/resolution-t.aspx). Does anyone here connected it successfully to a computer? Are the voltages compatible with RS232 or do I need some converter? Thanks! Regards, Miguel

Re: [time-nuts] GLONASS receiver

2012-08-05 Thread Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves
On 5 August 2012 22:45, Bob Camp li...@rtty.us wrote: Hi Hi Bob! What sort of accuracy do you need? If 1 ms is good enough, then indeed a GPSDO I was looking at http://www.jrmiller.demon.co.uk/projects/ministd/frqstd.htm and apparently this might work. I could connect this to one of my