Re: [time-nuts] Telephone network timing (was GPS Outage..)

2016-02-27 Thread Nathaniel Bezanson
Mark Spencer wrote: > I'd be curious to know how many carriers have a > reference source other than GPS for their "data > line sync." Fifteen-ish years ago when I was in wireline telecom, most offices used a Telecom Solutions (later Symmetricom) DCD-LPR as the local primary reference for the

Re: [time-nuts] Thunderbolt power connector crimper

2015-06-08 Thread Nathaniel Bezanson
Hi Matt, There are lots of options, and what's best for you will depend on what else comes across your bench. I'm a member of a hackerspace with all of these on the wall and more, so I have personal experience with all of the below: I suspect this is the Radio Shack tool Brooke refers to, it's a

[time-nuts] pp2s? No, 1pps from a Nortel GPSTM!

2015-05-26 Thread Nathaniel Bezanson
As anyone with a Nortel GPSTM knows, it's a close cousin to the Thunderbolt but not exactly identical. Notably, coming from a CDMA environment, the unit has an even second output, aka PP2S, aka 0.5pps, aka 0.5Hz, etc. (Hoping to make this searchable...) There are software commands to configure

Re: [time-nuts] WAAS.....

2014-01-08 Thread Nathaniel Bezanson
Brian, WA1ZMS wrote: In my case, SW masking of hold-over alarms may be a shorter fix without any HW fixes. If you can mask short-duration alarms while still finding out about persistent ones, then yes, that's probably the most pragmatic solution. What's your holdover tolerance? Following

Re: [time-nuts] From Burt - K6OQK...

2013-12-31 Thread Nathaniel Bezanson
Okay, as long as we're talking New Year's, What's the time-nuttiest way to mark the occasion? I have this stuck in my head:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWM5bmzYRh0#t=1m40s -Nate B- John C. Westmoreland, P.E. wrote: Hello Burt, Yes - we also wish good health and much

Re: [time-nuts] PRS10 time to lock

2013-08-26 Thread Nathaniel Bezanson
At room temperature, mine takes about 3-4 minutes heating until the lamp will start. You'll see RbMon showing SD2 and AD4 at max values, then they'll settle back into something sensible once it lights up. After that, you're watching the DS signal values and hoping the (large, small) turns into

Re: [time-nuts] NTGS50AA Power supply

2013-02-09 Thread Nathaniel Bezanson
Open it up, you'll find a bridge rectifier as the first component on the incoming power. It's actually much easier to solder straight to the pins of that component, rather than trying to bodge something together that would poke into the backplane connector. :) I know there's a TSIP command for

Re: [time-nuts] Thunderbolt Monitor

2013-01-23 Thread Nathaniel Bezanson
Chris Albertson wrote: The TB is best kept in some light-out closet and who wants to stand of a step stool to read an LCD when a web interface could put a better display on your smart phone or computer I don't have a way to play with it right now, but in the single-user case, is LH

Re: [time-nuts] OT - USB to LPT Adapter - Does it exist?

2013-01-14 Thread Nathaniel Bezanson
I always feel guilty replying to off-topic threads, but this one just got interesting! At least most mailers make it easy to mute threads, so... J. L. Trantham wrote: My goal is to connect a BP Micro BP-1600, parallel port connected Universal Programmer, to a computer using USB. BP Micro

Re: [time-nuts] OT - USB to LPT Adapter - Does it exist?

2013-01-11 Thread Nathaniel Bezanson
J. L. Trantham wrote: Is there a way to connect a parallel port to a computer via USB? Not a device that shows up as 'USB Print Support' but, instead, shows up in Device Manager as an LPT port? I have been able to do it via PCMCIA to Parallel Port adapters but I have never found a USB

Re: [time-nuts] single board PCs

2013-01-06 Thread Nathaniel Bezanson
Jim Lux wrote: the remote device isn't working well. With IMPI, you can actually mess with the bios. Supposedly it ls like really being there. Thanks, I'll take a look.. The ability to poke at the device remotely at a very low level is quite useful (e.g. if it's unattended). Pretty

Re: [time-nuts] PRS10 schematic or part identification help

2012-12-31 Thread Nathaniel Bezanson
Charles P. Steinmetz  wrote: For schematics, see http://www.ko4bb.com/manuals/.  Search for prs10. Aha, I don't know why I didn't see that when I searched around. Bookmarked! The response from this list, to a newbie with a probably-obvious problem, is incredibly helpful and welcoming. Thank

[time-nuts] PRS10 schematic or part identification help

2012-12-30 Thread Nathaniel Bezanson
Greetings, I'm new here! I'm tinkering with a discarded Symmetricom Timesource 2700 which won't lock. After letting it cook for a few days, the Rb alarms never went away, so I opened it up and connected directly to the serial pins of the PRS10 inside. This allowed me to run Stanford RbMon,