[time-nuts] Galileo service currently degraded

2019-07-12 Thread Martin Burnicki
Galileo service is currently degraded, see: https://www.gsc-europa.eu/notice-advisory-to-galileo-users-nagu-2019025 Martin ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com To unsubscribe, go to

[time-nuts] Thunderbolt E

2019-07-12 Thread Jon “KF5TFJ” Noxon
Chris, i have one which I bought new several years ago. It had a failure under warranty where in the serial chip stopped doing its thing. The unit continued to lock to SVs and delivered 10MHz and the PPS. Took almost two months to be returned, where it worked fine until very recently. Same

Re: [time-nuts] High accuracy temp controller ckt

2019-07-12 Thread Bernd Neubig
Dave wrote: >I have recently assembled some reasonably low temperature coefficient (5 ppm/deg C) resistors in a reasonably well insulated box to try to make a resistor that should be stable over short time periods to allow it to be used as a transfer standard. But I am seriously >considering

Re: [time-nuts] Used Hydrogen Maser, and Mercury Stored-Ion Clocks

2019-07-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <009b66fe-c0b0-4f80-8a79-4a487dcb0...@yahoo.com>, Demetrios Matsakis via time-nuts writes: > Demetrios Matsakis, as of this Saturday a USNO retiree, and as of August 1 a > consultant for Masterclock. Do Time Lords get to keep their TARDIS in retirement ? Best wishes for

Re: [time-nuts] Thunderbolt E

2019-07-12 Thread Chris Burford
Hi John, That repair cost is enough to steer me away from buying one. I have a mediocre view of the sky with my current antenna setup. I'll continue on and research some additional possibilities for a GPSDO unit. Thanks for sharing your experience with the Thunderbolt E unit. Chris On

Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 180, Issue 22

2019-07-12 Thread Leo Bodnar
From: Bob kb8tq - high-Q crystals require SC-cut >>> ... An SC has a lower Q than an AT of similar size >>> and design up to the point acoustic Q losses completely take over. >>> If you are talking about sub 20 MHz OCXO?s with ?doable? crystal >>> package sizes, the AT will have the

Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 180, Issue 22

2019-07-12 Thread Bruce Griffiths
The HP Journal article (page 20 March 1981 issue) on the 10811A agrees with Bob. It also points out that the lack of activity dips due to coupled modes and a much smaller dependence of the frequency on the signal level are advantages of the SC cut compared to the AT and BT cuts. Bruce > On 13

Re: [time-nuts] High accuracy temp controller ckt

2019-07-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message , "Dr. David Kirkby" writes: >I partially read the paper mentioned. I note that the authors used a thermo >electric cooler (TEC) as they wanted get low temperatures. Cooling GigaOhm resistors makes sense, Johnson/Nyquist noise is proportional to the product of absolute

Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 180, Issue 22

2019-07-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <2573d544-e3c9-4810-95c9-9e3a468ed...@leobodnar.com>, Leo Bodnar wri tes: >Here is a random selection of links to back my point of view that, >if you have noticed, contradicts Bob's. Given that quartz resonators is still both science and art, I put my money on the guy who

Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 180, Issue 22

2019-07-12 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi Here’s the gotcha with what they are talking about. The SC when done as a *fundamental* crystal has a higher Q than the AT. You don’t use fundamental mode SC’s in a normal OCXO. The issue with Q relates very specifically to the sort of HC-40 package AT resonators you *would* use for

Re: [time-nuts] High accuracy temp controller ckt

2019-07-12 Thread Javier Herrero
Hello, A TEC is good if you want to maintain the resistors at 25ºC, that seems the zero TC point for some precision low TCR resistors (for example, the Vishay VFCP or VSMP series) Regards, Javier On 12/7/19 10:06, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 at 08:07, Bernd Neubig wrote:

Re: [time-nuts] High accuracy temp controller ckt

2019-07-12 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 at 20:02, Bob kb8tq wrote: > Hi > If you do go the TEC route, plan on a fairly big power source :). There is > a > Wenzel doc on doing a TEC based enclosure using a couple of die cast > boxes. The pictures don’t show what they used to drive the beast so part > of > it would

Re: [time-nuts] Galileo service currently degraded

2019-07-12 Thread Hal Murray
> Galileo service is currently degraded, see: https://www.gsc-europa.eu/ > notice-advisory-to-galileo-users-nagu-2019025 Thanks. Is anybody monitoring a Galileo-only setup to see how far off the timing drifts? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam.

Re: [time-nuts] High accuracy temp controller ckt

2019-07-12 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi If you do go the TEC route, plan on a fairly big power source :). There is a Wenzel doc on doing a TEC based enclosure using a couple of die cast boxes. The pictures don’t show what they used to drive the beast so part of it would still be up to you. My search skills and their web site are

Re: [time-nuts] High accuracy temp controller ckt

2019-07-12 Thread Club Internet
And if you are not in a well air conditioned room Gilles. Envoyé de mon iPad > Le 12 juil. 2019 à 18:12, Javier Herrero a écrit : > > Hello, > > A TEC is good if you want to maintain the resistors at 25ºC, that seems the > zero TC point for some precision low TCR resistors (for example,

Re: [time-nuts] High accuracy temp controller ckt

2019-07-12 Thread Hal Murray
drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk said: >> If you do go the TEC route, plan on a fairly big power source :). > I'm particularly keen to avoid the requirement for high power, as I was > thinking to make this in such a way it can be shipped and powered up all the > time. If it could run from a few

[time-nuts] Galileo service currently degraded

2019-07-12 Thread Mark Sims
It seems to more than a little "degradation". My F9T is seeing and tracking Galileo sats, but is not using the results for navigation... Lady Heather shows all Galileo sats in yellow. Selecting Galileo only, the receiver reports it is attempting to acquire satellites and not producing a

Re: [time-nuts] High accuracy temp controller ckt

2019-07-12 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi Airlines tend to have issues with various battery types as well. Not clear what the rules are on “powered up in the hold” are. My guess is that ground transportation gets the nod pretty quickly. TEC’s are good for some limited temperature delta and then you need to go to cascaded “layers”

Re: [time-nuts] Galileo service currently degraded

2019-07-12 Thread Kevin Croissant
I built this website as my senior design project last year, unfortunately there's no timing data (except for tdop) being logged but you can see the impact. Data is collected with four ublox m8n receivers, one per constellation. Galileo data from last 1 week:

Re: [time-nuts] High accuracy temp controller ckt

2019-07-12 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi Ok, if it’s a “heat only” design, how about a dewar flask? They aren’t the most rugged items out there so some sort of padded enclosure would be needed. The real question is: Does a “single end” design impact your ability to use the resistor? Put another way - do you need to hit both ends

Re: [time-nuts] Galileo service currently degraded

2019-07-12 Thread tim...@timeok.it
Looking at the data it seems that GPS is the best system among the four, correct? Luciano Da "time-nuts" time-nuts-boun...@lists.febo.com A "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" time-nuts@lists.febo.com Cc Data Fri, 12 Jul 2019 18:29:10 -0400 Oggetto Re:

Re: [time-nuts] High accuracy temp controller ckt

2019-07-12 Thread Bruce Griffiths
Figure 5 in http://www.wenzel.com/wp-content/uploads/Sub-pico-Multiplier.pdf ?? Bruce > On 13 July 2019 at 05:23 Bob kb8tq wrote: > > > Hi > > If you do go the TEC route, plan on a fairly big power source :). There is a > Wenzel doc on doing a TEC based enclosure using a couple of die cast >

Re: [time-nuts] High accuracy temp controller ckt

2019-07-12 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi The “thermoelectrc chamber” in that paper *is* the gizmo. There is / was a better paper diving into the unit in a bit more detail. Even that did not get down to issues like the controller, the driver, or the power consumption. Indeed one wonders if there is a giant heatsink and fan on the

Re: [time-nuts] High accuracy temp controller ckt

2019-07-12 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 at 22:02, Hal Murray wrote: > > drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk said: > > If it could run from a few NiMH cells for 48 hours, that would give the > > option of shipping it. I don't know if that's going over the top, but it > > would be an interesting exercise. > > Shipping a