Re: [time-nuts] CSAC change in temperature, max is now 40C

2015-02-09 Thread brent evers
My understanding is that 1000's of these are deployed on commercial ocean bottom seismographs (Co. name not important) and per my last conversation with them, that they had identified long term failure's on the CSAC. They also indicated that they could detect when failure was imminent, and that

[time-nuts] Problems using digital TV signals as a time source

2015-02-09 Thread Mark Sims
A little while back there was a discussion about some of the issues using the PSIP data from digital TV broadcasts as a time source... it's not a good idea. Here is some data of why not: http://home.earthlink.net/~schultdw/atsc/tdata/index.html And when daylight savings time gets thrown into

Re: [time-nuts] D term (was no subject)

2015-02-09 Thread Bill Hawkins
Many thanks for the link, Attila. One of the authors of Volume 25 was Nichols of Ziegler-Nichols tuning fame (q.v.) Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From: Attila Kinali Sent: Monday, February 09, 2015 4:14 AM And here the link to the pdf's in case anyone is looking:

Re: [time-nuts] Wavecres SIA-3000 and DTS-2070 schematics (was: T.I. questions)

2015-02-09 Thread Mike Feher
I have two DTS2070s. The only manual I can find now is one for the DTS-2079. No schematics, but, a whole lot of other info. Can email it to you if you would like. Regards - Mike Mike B. Feher, EOZ Inc. 89 Arnold Blvd. Howell, NJ, 07731 732-886-5960 office 908-902-3831 cell -Original

Re: [time-nuts] MSF Scheduled Maintenance Periods

2015-02-09 Thread folkert
MSF Scheduled Maintenance Periods The MSF 60 kHz standard-frequency and time signal, broadcast by Babcock on behalf of NPL, is occasionally taken off-air to allow maintenance work on the masts and antennas at Anthorn Radio Station to be carried out in safety. This means that your

Re: [time-nuts] Good references on holdover?

2015-02-09 Thread Javier Serrano
This is a great list. Thanks everyone! Much of the material relates to cases where good holdover needs to be maintained for several hours, but there's a lot of insight to be gained from the reading, and I am sure those techniques will come in handy for other projects. Thanks again! Javier On

[time-nuts] CSAC change in temperature, max is now 40C

2015-02-09 Thread Jim Lux
The latest rev of the CSAC data sheet (rev H) shows the max non-operating temperature to be 40C.. and operating from -10 to +35C that's a substantial difference from the former version of the sheet which presumably had the temperatures from the summary page: The Quantum SA.45s Chip Scale

[time-nuts] Wavecres SIA-3000 and DTS-2070 schematics (was: T.I. questions)

2015-02-09 Thread Attila Kinali
On Fri, 06 Feb 2015 20:55:56 +0100 Magnus Danielson mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org wrote: The Wavecres SIA-3000 has a single-shot resolution of 200 fs, but the trigger jitter. Later models only went to 300 fs as far as I know. The DTS-2070C has a resolution of 800 fs. Hmm... does anyone have

Re: [time-nuts] D term (was no subject)

2015-02-09 Thread Attila Kinali
On Fri, 06 Feb 2015 21:20:39 + Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk wrote: If anyone wants to dive into control theory I recommend reading the book Feedback control of dynamic systems by Franklin, Powell and Emami-Naeini. And if you are more of a historical bent, the MIT Radiation Lab

Re: [time-nuts] MSF Scheduled Maintenance Periods

2015-02-09 Thread David J Taylor
Could it be that they changed something with their setup? A couple of years back I could receive MSF fine (Gouda, the Netherlands) but this year (reconnected the radio in January) no bit comes in at all. The led on the radio also flickers dramatically, not once per second. Folkert van Heusden

Re: [time-nuts] MSF Scheduled Maintenance Periods

2015-02-09 Thread Peter Torry
Folkert, As far as I know the transmitted signal has not changed and is its normal strength with me. Have you thought that you may be experiencing some form of interference to the signal? If you can monitor the signal on a receiver, maybe on a long wave broadcast receiver, you may find

Re: [time-nuts] MSF Scheduled Maintenance Periods

2015-02-09 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 20150209121219.gy21...@belle.intranet.vanheusden.com, folkert writ es: MSF Scheduled Maintenance Periods The MSF 60 kHz standard-frequency and time signal, broadcast by Babcock on behalf of NPL, is occasionally taken off-air to allow maintenance work on the masts and

Re: [time-nuts] Wavecres SIA-3000 and DTS-2070 schematics

2015-02-09 Thread Magnus Danielson
Attila, On 02/09/2015 11:28 AM, Attila Kinali wrote: On Fri, 06 Feb 2015 20:55:56 +0100 Magnus Danielson mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org wrote: The Wavecres SIA-3000 has a single-shot resolution of 200 fs, but the trigger jitter. Later models only went to 300 fs as far as I know. The DTS-2070C has