Re: [time-nuts] WWV and legal issues

2018-09-01 Thread Gerhard Hoffmann
Am 01.09.2018 um 20:40 schrieb Magnus Danielson: One should first know that there is a lot of papers now on frequency transfer over fiber. The stability achieved on the best ones so far greatly below that of the optical clocks that they want to compare. Please, in a nutshell: what are the

Re: [time-nuts] WWV and legal issues

2018-09-01 Thread Magnus Danielson
Hi Bob, Thanks for the paper. One should first know that there is a lot of papers now on frequency transfer over fiber. The stability achieved on the best ones so far greatly below that of the optical clocks that they want to compare. Then, for those links able to transfer phase/time, most of

Re: [time-nuts] WWV and legal issues

2018-09-01 Thread Scott McGrath
There was a paper published when NASA did something similar for LC39 and the VAB.Anyone have a copy because the link i have is dead. As I recall it was some trick and compensating for thermal effects on the fiber itself was a large part of the effort. On Sep 1, 2018, at 5:29 AM, Magnus

Re: [time-nuts] WWV and legal issues

2018-09-01 Thread Magnus Danielson
Hi, It was very telling when I crashed a research group into the reality of phase/time transfer over fiber compared to frequency transfer. Armed with a whiteboard and pens, I derived the forumulas and showed how they worked and not worked. It's a completely different ball-game and their "known

Re: [time-nuts] WWV and legal issues

2018-08-31 Thread Bob kb8tq
al Message- > From: time-nuts On Behalf Of Bob kb8tq > Sent: Friday, August 31, 2018 11:16 AM > To: Martin VE3OAT ; Discussion of precise time and frequency > measurement > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] WWV and legal issues > > Hi > > That works fine if you are doing

Re: [time-nuts] WWV and legal issues

2018-08-31 Thread Scott McGrath
: time-nuts On Behalf Of Bob kb8tq Sent: Friday, August 31, 2018 11:16 AM To: Martin VE3OAT ; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] WWV and legal issues Hi That works fine if you are doing things manual to check a local standard. If you are trying

Re: [time-nuts] WWV and legal issues

2018-08-31 Thread Tom Holmes
; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] WWV and legal issues Hi That works fine if you are doing things manual to check a local standard. If you are trying to disipline a few thousand cell towers 24 hours a day … not so much. It also works

Re: [time-nuts] WWV and legal issues

2018-08-31 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi That works fine if you are doing things manual to check a local standard. If you are trying to disipline a few thousand cell towers 24 hours a day … not so much. It also works for checking frequency. What modern systems need is time. That gets you into a whole world of resolving and

Re: [time-nuts] WWV and legal issues

2018-08-30 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi Same basic problem with WWVB. If you were using it as a reference, you timed your data collection to avoid the transition periods. You got both phase shifting and the amplitude took a dive. Neither one was going to help you make a precision measurement. In addition there are various

Re: [time-nuts] WWV and legal issues

2018-08-30 Thread Bob kb8tq
>> WWVB goes off the air what is the replacement for the 60KHz standard? >> >> Mike >> >> -Original Message- >> From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@lists.febo.com] On Behalf Of Perry >> Sandeen via time-nuts >> Sent: Wednesday, Augus

Re: [time-nuts] WWV and legal issues

2018-08-30 Thread Scott McGrath
at is the replacement for the 60KHz standard? > > Mike > > -Original Message- > From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@lists.febo.com] On Behalf Of Perry > Sandeen via time-nuts > Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 6:34 PM > To: time-nuts@lists.febo.com > Cc: Pe

Re: [time-nuts] WWV and legal issues

2018-08-30 Thread Bob kb8tq
or the 60KHz standard? > > Mike > > -Original Message- > From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@lists.febo.com] On Behalf Of Perry > Sandeen via time-nuts > Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 6:34 PM > To: time-nuts@lists.febo.com > Cc: Perry Sandeen > Subj

Re: [time-nuts] WWV and legal issues

2018-08-30 Thread James C Cotton
ecise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] WWV and legal issues Bingo - we have a a Winner!!! In a prior life as an architect at a northeastern we had Cs clocks, multiple GPS based NTP servers and CDMA NTP servers as TIME was the public key for all the crypto systems the Cs c

Re: [time-nuts] WWV and legal issues

2018-08-30 Thread Scott McGrath
-nuts] WWV and legal issues Um no Will the internet continue to route packets without precision timing yes it will, Yes the lambdas will stay lit on fiber but the ATM transport that runs on the lambdas will fail (note DSL is simply an ATM VC over copper). and other timing dependent services

Re: [time-nuts] WWV and legal issues

2018-08-30 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi This is not so much a GPS issue as a system design issue. GPSDO’s are used to “smooth over” bumps in a lot of systems out there. At the timing levels required by ATM or authentication setups, you can go a *long* time running on a GPSDO. It’s not a matter of GPS, it’s a matter of doing

Re: [time-nuts] WWV and legal issues

2018-08-30 Thread James C Cotton
of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] WWV and legal issues Um no Will the internet continue to route packets without precision timing yes it will, Yes the lambdas will stay lit on fiber but the ATM transport that runs on the lambdas will fail (note DSL is simply an ATM VC

Re: [time-nuts] WWV and legal issues

2018-08-30 Thread Brian Lloyd
On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 9:42 AM, Scott McGrath wrote: > Um no > > Will the internet continue to route packets without precision timing yes > it will, Yes the lambdas will stay lit on fiber but the ATM transport that > runs on the lambdas will fail (note DSL is simply an ATM VC over copper). >

Re: [time-nuts] WWV and legal issues

2018-08-30 Thread Scott McGrath
Um no Will the internet continue to route packets without precision timing yes it will, Yes the lambdas will stay lit on fiber but the ATM transport that runs on the lambdas will fail (note DSL is simply an ATM VC over copper). and other timing dependent services will fail Will many

Re: [time-nuts] WWV and legal issues

2018-08-29 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi One of the basic disconnects here seems to be the idea that radio was the “best thing” before GPS came along. In fact that’s not really how it worked. Time was traced / coordinated by hauling atomic clocks on airplanes as the “best thing” before satellite systems came along….That was true

Re: [time-nuts] WWV and legal issues

2018-08-29 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi The same sort of massive solar flare that fiddles with sat systems also makes a mess of HF and VLF systems. You have a high level of correlation in the impact. That makes them a poor “backup” in this case. Bob > On Aug 29, 2018, at 7:52 PM, Scott McGrath wrote: > > Excellent point on

Re: [time-nuts] WWV and legal issues

2018-08-29 Thread Scott McGrath
A DIY radio distribution system is not secure and traceable to NIST/USNO even if the source is GPS. On Aug 29, 2018, at 7:52 PM, Scott McGrath wrote: Excellent point on LEGAL time, The problem is as always is GPS is the new shiny object. You mentioned earth based hostile actors. But a

Re: [time-nuts] WWV and legal issues

2018-08-29 Thread Scott McGrath
Excellent point on LEGAL time, The problem is as always is GPS is the new shiny object. You mentioned earth based hostile actors. But a really large solar flare or CME has the potential to take out or severely degrade ALL the GNSS systems. Something on the order of the ‘Carrington Event’

[time-nuts] WWV and legal issues

2018-08-29 Thread Perry Sandeen via time-nuts
Yo Dudes!  WWV and all its variations distribute what in the USA is the legal standard of time (from USNO) and frequency (NIST).  If one is running a freq cal service IIRC it is a legal requirement to be able to have traceability to WWV. If one was to rely on other sources, one has no guarantee