Re: [time-nuts] Maxim DS1342

2013-11-12 Thread mc235960
Le 12 nov. 2013 à 03:13, Chris Albertson a écrit : You want to drive the RTC with an external PPS to get time/date into an Arduino? Why not feed the PPS to the Arduino and have it compute date and time? It is really not that hard to count seconds. You don't really need an external chip to

Re: [time-nuts] How hard is it to detect a GPS Jammer?

2013-10-08 Thread mc235960
Le 8 oct. 2013 à 10:29, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX a écrit : I for one would insist on complete situational awareness at all times. The alternative is being LOST. That can be bad for one's health. That is not the same as not wanting to be FOUND. ___

Re: [time-nuts] GPS to H-Maser comparison

2013-10-05 Thread mc235960
Le 5 oct. 2013 à 18:15, Magnus Danielson a écrit : On 10/03/2013 01:33 PM, Jim Palfreyman wrote: Noticed an above average bump in our H-Maser vs GPS graphs - from sites all over Australia. Recent coronal mass ejection or US government shutdown not updating GPS? Considering that GPS

Re: [time-nuts] GPS to H-Maser comparison

2013-10-04 Thread mc235960
Truly astonishing. I see nothing in my ntp gps data and unfortunately was not logging my thunderbolt. Le 4 oct. 2013 à 05:56, Jim Palfreyman a écrit : Hi all, If you go to this page: http://users.on.net/~cdadsl/ you will see some graphs (all in UT). Notice the larger than usual bump on Oct

Re: [time-nuts] Pulsars make a GPS for the cosmos

2013-09-30 Thread mc235960
Le 30 sept. 2013 à 09:19, Hal Murray a écrit : jim...@earthlink.net said: You also get direction, so for a navigation system, you can figure out where you are. I'm still missing the big picture. If I'm working off direction, why are pulsars interesting? Why radio vs optical?

Re: [time-nuts] Pulsars make a GPS for the cosmos

2013-09-29 Thread mc235960
Le 28 sept. 2013 à 14:26, Magnus Danielson a écrit : On 09/28/2013 02:15 PM, Jim Lux wrote: Don't forget the Doppler and relativistic effects of the earth moving around the solar system barycenter. But that's not much different than you do for GPS (e.g. knowing satellite orbits, etc.)

[time-nuts] CBT designation and usage?

2013-09-27 Thread mc235960
Hi, Some Qs for someone with 5071A experience. I have picked up a cheapo second hand 5071A and would like to know what tube I have and what remaining life I might expect. It locked in about 10-15 mins after I applied power for the first time this morning. the box s/n is 3249A00498 and the

Re: [time-nuts] CBT designation and usage?

2013-09-27 Thread mc235960
it means? Paul WB8TSL On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 12:20 PM, mc235960 mc235...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Some Qs for someone with 5071A experience. I have picked up a cheapo second hand 5071A and would like to know what tube I have and what remaining life I might expect. It locked in about 10

Re: [time-nuts] CBT designation and usage?

2013-09-27 Thread mc235960
Le 27 sept. 2013 à 21:16, Tom Van Baak a écrit : Hi Mike, Cs tubes with S are standard-performance; tubes with H are high-performance. You can get that from the tube label, or from the front panel S/N. Don't trust the black dot on the rear of the instrument: frames change, tubes

Re: [time-nuts] New NTBW50AA

2013-09-11 Thread mc235960
I am tempted to use the monty python exhortation Start again If I am reading your screen shots correctly the 01:51:57 UTC shot is before the antenna move and the 14:02:03 one after the move. HOWEVER, both shots show the same saved position. That is certainly not going to be optimal. You

Re: [time-nuts] NTP/1-PPS/RS232 question

2013-09-08 Thread mc235960
Le 8 sept. 2013 à 17:08, Chris Albertson a écrit : You only need ONE inverter gate. true The purpose is the flip the pulse. The MAX 232 chip flips the logic once which works fine for the data but you need to flip the control lines (maybe if the GPS reciever did not already do this for

Re: [time-nuts] de Witte's Experiment

2013-08-28 Thread mc235960
Le 28 août 2013 à 12:23, Poul-Henning Kamp a écrit : In message 1629133352.2066701377684015960.JavaMail.defaultUser@defaultHost, iov...@inwind.it writes: I would add that one could run the experiment over a full year. Please consider: 1. Nailing relativity is the biggest scalp you

Re: [time-nuts] de Witte's Experiment

2013-08-27 Thread mc235960
Le 27 août 2013 à 20:27, Poul-Henning Kamp a écrit : In message CANX10hDW7BGH27=N0N8ZSMfUk+a2gT5ir_hv7h=e5kqewtj...@mail.gmail.com, Dr. David Kirkby writes: Maybe if the cables were burried sufficiently deep, there would be no short term changes of temperature, since the temperature

Re: [time-nuts] RFTGm-II-Rb - can you gps discipline it without the XO module?

2013-08-23 Thread mc235960
It can't be a coincidence that it is exactly 7*rollover. Le 23 août 2013 à 17:57, Alan Kamrowski II a écrit : Hi Guido, Do you have any idea why the unit interprets the date 7168 (0x1c00) days into the future? If I send it today's date in the correct Motorola format, this is how many

Re: [time-nuts] Warped back to 1993

2013-08-14 Thread mc235960
Le 14 août 2013 à 09:44, David Malone a écrit : On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 03:12:00PM +0200, Magnus Danielson wrote: I'm sure that the NTP drivers can be hacked to make necessary adjustments without too much code. I seem to have been caught by the same time warp (or a similar one) on a GPS

Re: [time-nuts] Rb video

2013-08-08 Thread mc235960
Sells to France if asked. I mentioned there might be interest from the US. Mike Le 8 août 2013 à 11:19, Mark C. Stephens a écrit : Yup, Seller just emailed me. Something about antipodeans and convicts ;) -Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com

Re: [time-nuts] Rb video

2013-08-08 Thread mc235960
None left from that batch. Hope you got yours. Points taken, but cheap enough to experiment with. Le 8 août 2013 à 13:08, Dr. David Kirkby a écrit : On 6 August 2013 09:37, Raj vu2...@gmail.com wrote: Found this on Hack-a-day http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chrzrod3tQY Cheers --