Re: [time-nuts] LTE-Lite Plans

2014-11-26 Thread Didier Juges
Said, Your drawing looks better than those by Bob Pease, and he was never embarrassed by his :) Thank you for your extensive contributions to time nuts Didier KO4BB On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 7:28 PM, S. Jackson via time-nuts time-nuts@febo.com wrote: Guys, I never expected such an intense

Re: [time-nuts] LTE-Lite Plans

2014-11-26 Thread Said Jackson via time-nuts
:) Sent From iPhone On Nov 26, 2014, at 9:20, Didier Juges shali...@gmail.com wrote: Said, Your drawing looks better than those by Bob Pease, and he was never embarrassed by his :) Thank you for your extensive contributions to time nuts Didier KO4BB On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 7:28

Re: [time-nuts] LTE-Lite Plans

2014-11-26 Thread Jim Sanford
Interesting comment. . . . I'm reading Bob's book now! Never met him, but felt like I knew him from all of his writings. His death was very sad Jim wb4...@amsat.org On 11/26/2014 12:20 PM, Didier Juges wrote: Said, Your drawing looks better than those byBob Pease, and he was never

Re: [time-nuts] LTE-Lite Plans

2014-11-26 Thread Said Jackson via time-nuts
Jim, A double tragedy. I was working with Jim Williams on one of our designs a week before he passed away. Then Bob crashed his car coming from Jim's funeral (grief?) and died too. Two of the greatest analog minds lost within days. Bye, Said Sent From iPhone On Nov 26, 2014, at 9:34, Jim

Re: [time-nuts] LTE-Lite Plans

2014-11-26 Thread Jim Sanford
Didier: Please DO share. Thanks! Jim On 11/25/2014 7:47 PM, Didier Juges wrote: Jim, I have somewhere a piece of VB 6.0 code that decodes NMEA sentences and puts it pretty on the screen (at least that's how I remember it :). I am not at home at the moment but I'll be glad to send it to you

Re: [time-nuts] LTE-Lite Plans

2014-11-26 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 25 November 2014 at 19:51, S. Jackson via time-nuts time-nuts@febo.com wrote: Jim, please remember you need proper lightning protection if you put the antenna outside.. bye, Said ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe,

Re: [time-nuts] LTE-Lite Plans

2014-11-26 Thread Don Latham
yes please! Don On Nov 26, 2014, at 11:45 AM, Jim Sanford wb4...@wb4gcs.org wrote: Didier: Please DO share. Thanks! Jim On 11/25/2014 7:47 PM, Didier Juges wrote: Jim, I have somewhere a piece of VB 6.0 code that decodes NMEA sentences and puts it pretty on the screen (at least

[time-nuts] LTE-Lite Plans

2014-11-25 Thread Jim Miller
I have one of the LTE-Lite 20Mhz units and plan to use it as a frequency reference for my ham radio gear. My planned setup is as follows: I'm putting it in the recommended Hammond enclosure powered by a USB cable from my PC. I had originally planned to use the wall wart provided but I want to get

Re: [time-nuts] LTE-Lite Plans

2014-11-25 Thread S. Jackson via time-nuts
Jim, please remember you need proper lightning protection if you put the antenna outside.. bye, Said In a message dated 11/25/2014 11:43:09 Pacific Standard Time, jim@jtmil ler.com writes: I have one of the LTE-Lite 20Mhz units and plan to use it as a frequency reference for my ham

Re: [time-nuts] LTE-Lite Plans

2014-11-25 Thread paul swed
Jim Because of the short runs you should be quite fine with your approach. I used the 74HC version to do my dividing using the second section to get 5 MHz. Lots of gear still uses that. Frankly ublox and such don't show you much and I am using PUTTY. There is another pgm from India but shows much

Re: [time-nuts] LTE-Lite Plans

2014-11-25 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 25 November 2014 at 19:42, Jim Miller j...@jtmiller.com wrote: I'm putting it in the recommended Hammond enclosure powered by a USB cable from my PC. I had originally planned to use the wall wart provided but I want to get status from the unit without hacking a window in the top to see the

Re: [time-nuts] LTE-Lite Plans

2014-11-25 Thread Didier Juges
Jim, I have somewhere a piece of VB 6.0 code that decodes NMEA sentences and puts it pretty on the screen (at least that's how I remember it :). I am not at home at the moment but I'll be glad to send it to you if you are interested. May not do what you want, but it will get you started.

Re: [time-nuts] LTE-Lite Plans

2014-11-25 Thread S. Jackson via time-nuts
Guys, I never expected such an intense discussion about using and buffering the outputs from the LTE-Lite board since the actual circuit to use can be quite simple. To address these questions, I drew up a simple schematic that uses a DIP-14 74AC04 gate, six resistors, and two caps.

Re: [time-nuts] LTE-Lite Plans

2014-11-25 Thread Bob Camp
Hi If you decide to run the circuit from +5V, get the 74ACT04 instead of the 74AC04. It will trigger better on the 3.3V output from the LTE. The 74AC(T)04 will not in any way impact the phase noise or ADEV coming out of the LTE, if a reasonable supply is used… With a decent PCB layout and

Re: [time-nuts] LTE-Lite Plans

2014-11-25 Thread S. Jackson via time-nuts
Hi Mark, Bob, two comments: * I forgot to mention that feeding the 1PPS signal through the IC inverts the signal of course, so the falling edge becomes the active edge. Use the two inverters in series rather than parallel to avoid that problem, at the cost of lower drive capability and

Re: [time-nuts] LTE-Lite Plans

2014-11-25 Thread Bob Camp
Hi One simple point: Do you *need* ultra low phase noise on your 1 pps output or is real good ADEV all you are after? If you need good phase noise .. exactly what are you doing ??? So… tack a 78L05 onto your bulk power and run the pps output “empire” off of that supply. Maybe wire the 1 pps

Re: [time-nuts] LTE-Lite Plans

2014-11-25 Thread Said Jackson via time-nuts
Bob, Its not the 1PPS that would be suffering, its the 10MHz that will have all the 1Hz and its harmonics making the PN graph look ugly.. Agree with you that the regulators cost zip these days and using individual buffer ICs and regs is the best way to go. Bye, Said Sent From iPhone On Nov