Re: [time-nuts] Ebay Huawei Ublox M8T Modules Warning

2021-01-10 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi There appear to be a lot of the cut off boards. The assemblies may well be usable “as is”. It’s too bad there aren’t more of them. At the price, they are (used to be) an attractive alternative. Bob > On Jan 10, 2021, at 8:41 PM, Didier Juges wrote: > > ebay seller Queen's Land sent me

[time-nuts] Ebay Huawei Ublox M8T Modules

2021-01-10 Thread Mark Sims
Can somebody point me to a connection diagram for the external connections tp the carrier boards? ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow

Re: [time-nuts] NTP Servers - RPi, NTP-Sec, Teensy 4.1, and one on the way from eBay

2021-01-10 Thread ASSI
Am Sonntag, 10. Januar 2021, 17:30:52 CET schrieb Ben Hall: > While on the NTP-Sec server, on the output of ntpq, there are at least four: > > delay offset jitter > == > 0. 0.0740 0.0027 > 85.4951 -1.7276 11.7616 > 40.9579 -1.9249 13.8848 > 25.7753 -0.5499

Re: [time-nuts] Ebay Huawei Ublox M8T Modules Warning

2021-01-10 Thread ASSI
Am Samstag, 9. Januar 2021, 23:38:35 CET schrieb gandal...@aol.com: > Now a question, supposing someone did follow that diagram and applied 5 > Volts to Vcc on the M8T, what is the risk of damage and would it be > immediately obvious? The commonly agreed upon definition of an abs max rating is

[time-nuts] NTP Servers - RPi, NTP-Sec, Teensy 4.1, and one on the way from eBay

2021-01-10 Thread Ben Hall
Good morning all, Several weeks ago, my Raspberry Pi (RPi) based GPS/NTP server quit working. I really can't complain, I want to say that it's been up, operational, and serving network time to my network for at least two years. I immediately rebuilt the installation from scratch on a new

Re: [time-nuts] Negative leap second

2021-01-10 Thread Tom Van Baak
Hi Adam, > I've read several articles lately claiming that the Earth is spinning much > faster since 2020. Yes, quiet, then many articles in a few days, then quiet. It's been fascinating to see how technical news morphs and scary how fast it spreads. Some of the headlines are creative to

Re: [time-nuts] Negative leap second

2021-01-10 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi I think that the honest answer is that there are *always* systems that get tangled when there is a leap second of any sort. If you dig back a bit on the list there are number of posts talking about abolishing them because of the many difficulties with handling them. One of the reasons

[time-nuts] Negative leap second

2021-01-10 Thread Adam Kumiszcza
Hi. I've read several articles lately claiming that the Earth is spinning much faster since 2020. I didn't see anything definite directly from IERS about this, but I was wondering if the systems are ready for a negative leap second some time in the future?

[time-nuts] Ebay Huawei Ublox M8T Modules Warning

2021-01-10 Thread Nigel gm8pzr via time-nuts
Many thanks for the comments on this, I've since heard from the seller who tells me they were listed as tested after being pulled from working kit and haven't been tested since at 5 volts, phew:-) I remember the missing diodes on fluke.l's version of the Tbolt monitor, and also seem to remember

Re: [time-nuts] Ebay Huawei Ublox M8T Modules Warning

2021-01-10 Thread ew via time-nuts
We use the board but my boards are presently in Connecticut so I can not check. Pin 18 of the Ublox is used to feed power to an active antenna that is why the Rf pin does not have a capacitor. I have fed 5V in to pin 18 on ny Saw Tooth boards.  Some one check if pin 8 in question is connected

Re: [time-nuts] Ebay Huawei Ublox M8T Modules Warning

2021-01-10 Thread Matthias Welwarsky
On Samstag, 9. Januar 2021 23:38:35 CET Nigel gm8pzr via time-nuts wrote: > I've dealt with this seller before, always been very happy with the results, > and agreed a price on three such modules which arrived just before > Christmas, for reference this particular Ebay ID was 333619130232, and >

Re: [time-nuts] small multi-timezone display

2021-01-10 Thread Didier Juges
Well, the latency in the php web page I posted earlier bugged the heck out of me so I redid it the "right" way: http://www.ko4bb.com/js/clock/?tz=America/Los_Angeles,Europe/Paris,Asia/Novosibirsk Now the web page loads a Javascript program that uses the local machine's time, the internet is only