Re: [time-nuts] FA-2 Counter Questions

2019-10-01 Thread Richard Solomon
The FA-2 Manual (such as it is), has been uploaded to KO4BB. 73, Dick, W1KSZ On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 2:00 PM Bryan _ wrote: > I think most of them are going here. Top of the page opens applet to > upload. > > http://www.ko4bb.com/getsimple/index.php?id=manuals > > > -=Bryan=- > >

Re: [time-nuts] FA-2 Counter Questions

2019-10-01 Thread Bryan _
I think most of them are going here. Top of the page opens applet to upload. http://www.ko4bb.com/getsimple/index.php?id=manuals -=Bryan=- From: time-nuts on behalf of Richard Solomon Sent: October 1, 2019 10:06 AM To: Discussion of precise time and

Re: [time-nuts] FA-2 Counter Questions

2019-10-01 Thread Richard Solomon
Be happy to upload it if someone can tell me where I should go to do it. 73, Dick, W1KSZ On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 3:35 AM Mark Sims wrote: > Can you post a copy of the manual? Nobody that I've talked to has seen > any manual or documentation.We've assumed that the "P" means the PLL is >

[time-nuts] SR620 counter

2019-10-01 Thread djl
My sr620 counter has gone nuts. Completely blank readouts, both led's and numerals. I have the manual. and all voltages post-regulator check out. I just wondered if there are known weak spots or idiosyncrasies? There is a clock dropout control that seems to be holding off the front panel.

[time-nuts] Fwd: Talking Clock

2019-10-01 Thread Stephen Tompsett
FYI, some information from a member of the Telecommunications Heritage Group about their speaking clock project. ... The project was know as TIM2015 The best person to contact about this would be Andrew Emmerson, President of the Telecommunications Heritage Group, whose project it was. Andy's

Re: [time-nuts] Talking Clock

2019-10-01 Thread Brian Lloyd
On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 3:00 AM Mark Sims wrote: > It would be pretty easy to teach Lady Heather how to do it. Heather > already supports several different audible clock. One issue would be > constructing the message from several snippets. Currently Heather plays > sound files asynchronously

Re: [time-nuts] Talking Clock

2019-10-01 Thread Michael Wouters
Hello Dana The prototype system I built used an E1 digital telephony card with 30 lines. I think it cost about $12000/year to lease the associated 2 megabits per second data capacity but we didn't do that; we just commandeered a few lines from our site's capacity. I believe the live system needed

Re: [time-nuts] Talking Clock

2019-10-01 Thread D. Resor
I believe this is the glass plate MkII Talking Clock which referred to in AUS. It was retired in 1990. Also shown is the digital replacement system. Progress is great, but in some ways it's also kind of sad. The speaking Clock pt1, Talking Clock https://youtu.be/fp4zlMZVcmM The Speaking Clock

Re: [time-nuts] Talking Clock

2019-10-01 Thread Jim Palfreyman
Hi All, I have the Tasmanian unit of the German made TTL based speaking clock running in my garage. I've kept it going since it was decommissioned in the mid 2000s. In true Time-Nuts fashion I have it synchronised to the GPS. For extra fun, I broadcast it on FM 107.7 using a (legal) low power

[time-nuts] FA-2 Counter Questions

2019-10-01 Thread Mark Sims
Can you post a copy of the manual? Nobody that I've talked to has seen any manual or documentation.We've assumed that the "P" means the PLL is locked and the '*' indicates the unit has an input signal. ___ time-nuts mailing list --

Re: [time-nuts] Talking Clock

2019-10-01 Thread William H. Fite
"Alexa, what time is it?" On Monday, September 30, 2019, Bob kb8tq wrote: > Hi > > Based on only dimly remembered conversations long long ago: > > Getting all the “message fragments” so they sound natural and not choppy > is > not quite as easy as it seems at first. It’s by not quite rocket

Re: [time-nuts] Talking Clock

2019-10-01 Thread jimlux
On 9/30/19 7:05 PM, Bob kb8tq wrote: Hi Based on only dimly remembered conversations long long ago: Getting all the “message fragments” so they sound natural and not choppy is not quite as easy as it seems at first. It’s by not quite rocket science, but there is more fiddling involved than

Re: [time-nuts] Talking Clock

2019-10-01 Thread Marco Davids via time-nuts
I like: https://uhr.ptb.de/ (press the speaker-icon to make it talk) Needs some adaption for your timezone though. (no rocket science) -- Marco On 01/10/2019 00:00, Neville Michie wrote: > Here in Australia we are suffering the loss > of one of the significant developments in accurate time

Re: [time-nuts] Talking Clock

2019-10-01 Thread Michael Wouters
I designed the hardware and wrote the software for the now defunct Australian speaking clock. The prototype pieced together the audio from fragments and it did indeed take quite a bit of effort to get this to sound clean. Mismatches in sound levels at the boundaries caused 'pops', for example. I

Re: [time-nuts] Talking Clock

2019-10-01 Thread vilgotch1
The electro-mechanical-optical clock was made obsolete years ago and the voice is now generated electronically. I think the reason it's being closed down is that the PSTN is digital and so delays are unpredictable leading to possible errors in the time. According to a news item I saw the company