Michael:
Well, if some is good, then more must be better, and that makes
too much about just right. Its the American way.
--- Graham / KE9H
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Michael Baker wrote:
Time Nutters--
See:
< http://tinyurl.com/25rrlnb >
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=12
e gpio pin.
Thanks,
--- Graham / KE9H
==
On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Bob Darlington
wrote:
> Hourly cron jobs, perhaps?
>
> -Bob
>
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 8:04 AM, David J Taylor <
> david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for pointing this out Dav
Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Graham / KE9H
> wrote:
>
> > I guess I am asking if the kernel "pps-gpio" has a specific preferred
> pin,
> > or whether it can be mapped to any available gpio pin.
> >
>
> The provided-with-stock-dtb pin is: <0x40> wh
Neil Schroeder wrote:
> Graham make sure you read up on dtb and fdt. Many if not most distros
don't
> have what you might call a default.
I have done several device tree overlays on the BBB, so I think I can
usually get the
I/O lines and pin-mux to do what I want them to do. It was a total pain
Dan:
When you forced/locked the CPU frequency at 1 GHz, did you by any chance
measure what it did to the CPU case/package temperature? Or current drain?
I note that you used BBB pin P8.7 for PPS input. That allowed you to use
it for either
pps-gpio or TIMER4 pps-gmtimer, by just changing the pi
line is supposed to change, but if it is a 20 MHz CPU clock,
it can only change every 50 ns. The sawtooth correction is the difference
between the constrained transition and the ideal transition.
--- Graham / KE9H
==
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Tom Van Baak wrote:
> google for: m12
ermination, but only draw one half the DC current.
In the event of no input, the receiver voltage will go to half scale. Make
sure your system will not misbehave when this happens.
Alternate driver is to use a video line driver with sufficient bandwidth.
--- Graham / KE9H
==
On Wed, Mar 4,
a driver that can push sine-waves at over a few GHz. Not 10 MHz.
--- Graham / KE9H
==
On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Didier Juges wrote:
> Martyn, if you only need 1Hz, I recommend you use a MOSFET driver like the
> MIC4420 series or the UCC27531, powered from 10V with a 50 ohm
David:
On the BBB, were you running the fully loaded release, or the minimum
"console" version of the OS?
Which specific version of the OS?
Thanks,
--- Graham
==
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 11:23 AM, David J Taylor <
david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I've just put up my first draf
David:
If you are running "headless", that is, not using the on board
video-graphics system,
all interaction with the unit is via the console, local or SSH.
In this case, I would use the "console" version as described above. It is
about
one tenth the size of the version you are using.
You will
Adam:
It depends.
What are you trying to do?
How much accuracy is needed?
Do you mean just time, or some other metrics, too?
--- Graham
==
On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Adam Blakney wrote:
> I was wondering how expensive it would be to have even a small and lower
> level time lab. What ar
Be aware that there are about 100 variations on "IRIG B", that is, B000
through B257.
You should obtain a copy of "IRIG STANDARD 200-04", the 2004 version,
which I believe is the most current. It is available on line, if you
Google for it.
--- Graham / KE9H
==
On Tue, May
All you need is a 10 MHz low pass filter.
How far down do you need the harmonics/spurious to be?
If 40 dB suppression of the 2nd and 3rd harmonics is adequate,
(you can't see the distortion with the eye on an oscilloscope)
you can make your own for about $2 in parts, not including a PC board or
h
kHz. You would only need a preamp if you were running some negative gain
antenna. Lots of dynamic range. Won't overload until 2 Volts peak-to-peak
or so. A very simple, high performance digital receiver front-end.
--- Graham / KE9H
==
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 6:15 AM, Bob Camp wrote:
eiver, ie., no Tayloe mixer required. Just the (audio) data converter
and the
DSP.
--- Graham / KE9H
==
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 5:47 PM, Scott Newell
wrote:
> At 12:40 PM 8/5/2015, Graham / KE9H wrote:
>
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>>
>> There are several high end
ill be nearly 96kHz, typically at least 80kHz, not limited to
> 20kHz. That is the POINT of 192kHz sampling.
>
> David N1HAC
>
>
>
> On 8/5/15 10:03 PM, Graham / KE9H wrote:
>
>> Scott:
>>
>> You won't be able to use an off-the-shelf audio card, because
Nick:
>From your description, it sounds like you have a frequency locked loop with
a maximum frequency sensitivity of 1 ppb, as opposed to a phase locked loop.
At the end of the 100 second count period, do you start over with a counter
set to zero, or do you carry forward any error from the previ
There is a lot of jitter on a GPS 1 PPS output.
You need a big "flywheel" to smooth out the jitter errors.
GPS modules only have room for small flywheels.
--- Graham
On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Clint Jay wrote:
> I am still learning and want to understand, if the PPS is good then why is
> t
Both the sextant and the slide rule will still function after an EMP event.
Not much other electronic stuff will.
--- Graham / KE9H
==
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 4:20 PM, paul swed wrote:
> Crazy bit of humor/timing in all of this I guess.
>
> Oddly at the last MIT flea I picked up a
Chris:
If by "purely mathematical" you mean with infinite precision and infinite
accuracy in the calculations, then the answer is "No."
The counter is using integer mathematics, in a world with propagation
delays and clock jitter, and uncontrolled phase relationships.
So resulting rounding errors
Yes, you are missing 1024 weeks.
Google: GPS week rollover.
--- Graham
==
On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Charlie wrote:
> I have used a HP Z3805A for my shack for a number of years. I recently
> wished to get the date output. Hooked up my laptop, and found that while I
> had a stable, in s
GPS Time ignores (does not deal with) "Leap Seconds."
It is dealt with in the software translation from GPS time to UTC or local
time.
That is part of the reason there is a 16 second time difference between GPS
Time and UTC/local time.
--- Graham
==
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Chuck Harris
I would consider using a LVDS line receiver.
http://www.digikey.com/catalog/en/partgroup/lvds-differential-line-receivers/11820
They are available in SOT-23 package, and can have built-in hysteresis, and
3.3V
CMOS output.
--- Graham
==
On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp
wrote
Are they running off the same power supply?
If so, I would run them from different power supplies as an experiment.
--- Graham
==
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 6:19 AM, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 11:57:55 +0100
> Mike Cook wrote:
>
> > > A sampling difference of 1 cycle with 48Mhz cl
The Debian 8.x (jessie) releases for the BeagleBone run systemd-timesyncd,
which is installed and on by default. As long as the Beaglebone is hooked
to the internet, it has correct time to +/- 10 milliseconds or so.
Probably good enough for a time-nut lawn sprinkler.
systemd-timesyncd is a simplif
The programmable PIC or AVR or ... chip that will do the job are same or
less than a 555 chip, and a lot more flexible.
--- Graham
On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Adrian Godwin wrote:
> Why use a board full of TTL when an $1 8-pin chip will do it ?
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Morri
You will need to know the capacitance value. Usually expressed in uF
(micro Farad).
Then some idea of the physical size, so the replacement will fit in the
current space.
--- Graham
==
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 4:21 PM, davidh wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> While still appearing to function normally, my P
There are clock distribution parts designed to do this low noise frequency
conversion and distribution.
Consider TI LMK04100
Ignore PLL1
Put your 10 MHz as the reference input to PLL2.
Set Internal VCO to ~1200 MHz
Set the internal dividers to get 100 MHz out, and 10 MHz back to the PLL2
phase d
Please describe your Antenna setup and location.
How much of the sky can it see, in which directions.
Which directions are blocked for direct line of sight, and must depend on
reflections from nearby buildings or objects?
--- Graham
==
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 11:25 AM, Tom Van Baak wrote:
> Da
s see a sporadic jumps in PPS error for an hour or two
> once or twice a day
>
> Dave
> NR1DX
> ArtekManuals.com
>
> A man with a watch always knows what time it is
> A man with two watches is never quite sure
>
> . On 1/28/2016 6:23 PM, Graham / KE9H wrote:
>
>
solicit you, or did you solicit them for the work?
Or did they just see and copy your stuff on Oshpark?
--- Graham / KE9H
On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Daniel Watson
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm sure many of you are tracking the cheap CTS 10MHz OCXOs available on
> eBay right now. I
Rob:
Are you sure you were running it with a clean power supply?
Any 60 Hz ripple on the supply could show up as AM/PM modulation.
You might want to try another 5V power supply before you give up on the
oscillator.
--- Graham
On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Rob Sherwood. wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
>
ago according to Moore's Law.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Transistor_Count_and_Moore's_Law_-_2011.svg
--- Graham / KE9H
==
On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 12:42 AM, Joseph Gray wrote:
> I got my hands on some of these.
>
> https://dl.dropboxusercon
The lowest jitter way to do this kind of conversion is to multiply the
signal up to some common multiple frequency, then divide it back down to
where you want to be. For instance, with 8 or 24 MHz, multiply up to 240
MHz, then divide by 24 to get 10 MHz.
Modern clock generator chips have this cap
For all you Powerline Time nuts, and maybe GPSDO time nuts, too.
Consider this new PIC.PIC16F1619
$1.60 USD, quantity one at Mouser.
It was designed to be an AC motor controller.
So has some interesting built in hardware peripherals:
Mains Zero crossing detector.
Runs up to 32 MHz ma
I think the more common way to do this is SPI or the I2S / DSP type
transfer formats.
You are likely to find existing Verilog modules that do these transfer
formats.
--- Graham / KE9H
==
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 2:10 AM, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 23:03:11 +0200
> G
Greg:
You should switch to Verizon.
They are inherently accurate to milliseconds.
Sub micro-seconds inside the base stations.
--- Graham / KE9H
==
On 12/15/2012 12:51 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
In central mass, AT&T and tracfone (? carrier) are showing phone times
very close to 1 min
time of arrival
calculations.
--- Graham / KE9H
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room temperature) and
the "single side band" phase noise measurement, which only looks at half
the noise, since it only looks on one side of the reference signal?
--- Graham / KE9H
==
On 1/15/2013 1:38 PM, Bruce Griffiths wrote:
I've noticed a disturbing tendency to quote the thermal
pure acetone works well at dry ice temperatures. We used crushed
dry ice
in acetone as an alternative when the liquid nitrogen truck was late
making its delivery
for the cryro lab.
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On 5/25/2013 3:40 PM, Bob Camp wrote:
You can get a part with 1MB of flash, 128KB of ram, 6 UARTS, 4 16 bit A/D's,
10/100 Ethernet, USB, and a bunch of other stuff for less than $10. Drop this
and that, go to half the flash, and yup, the price is 1/2. Comes with a free
toolchain and two very
Miguel:
If you are going to build your own, I would recommend you start with
something like the Microchip PIC32 Ethernet Starter Kit. Comes
with a free GCC C/C++ compiler and an Ethernet stack.
I happened to have one for another project, that already had a
four line serial LCD display hooked to
On 5/27/2013 2:40 PM, Kenton A. Hoover wrote:
A useful reference to own:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0521702380/ref=mw_dp_sim_ss1?pi=SL500_SY125
--
Kenton A. Hoover
ken...@nemersonhoover.org
+14158305843
Kenton:
Thanks.
I ordered from Amazon.
--- Graham
==
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On 6/8/2013 1:40 PM, Don Latham wrote:
Neat! The path shape can be calculated to be isochronous, if I remember
aright...
Don
Hi:
Here's a kit I just built that's a pendulum that's a metal ball powered
by a small solar cell.
Haven't done any measurements yet, but the period is about a second.
A startup in Massachusetts named Hypres has/had exactly what you want.
It is a cryogenic delta-sigma converter using some kind of quantum logic.
As I remember it did about four bits per sample at up to 40 Giga-samples
per second.
You have to run it submerged in liquid Helium. But they would sell y
Bill:
On cable TV systems, 50 MHz to 500 (or higher) are the forward channel.
(Head-end to client.)
Below 30 MHz is the reverse channel, for data going from the client to the
cable company.
The band 30 to 50 is a cross over zone for the band splitting filters.
It is designed to not amplify the f
On 6/11/2012 4:14 PM, Bill Hawkins wrote:
Celia Rivenbark of Wilmington, NC, wrote a piece about an accident on
a Florida highway, headline "Driving and shaving just don't mix."
In it she remarked that the woman who caused the accident "appears to
have a face that would stop a clock and raise he
On 9/1/2012 1:35 AM, Hal Murray wrote:
The context is using the 60 Hz line for timing.
I'm feeding 60 Hz from a wall wart transformer into a modem control signal
that the kernel PPS stuff watches. Mostly, it works as expected, but
occasionally, it picks or drops a cycle.
In order to understand
On 10/9/2012 6:04 PM, Mark Sims wrote:
Lady Heather supports a digital clock display. You can zoom it to full screen.
It would not be difficult to add the two time zones to that display.
You could use three of these:
http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/47
pically take
about three weeks of continuous operation before they
rejoin their spec sheet drift specification.
--- Graham / KE9H
==
On 11/5/2012 8:49 AM, Chris Howard wrote:
I built a GPSDO using my own power supply,
a VE2ZAZ board, a Trimble Resolution T GPS
and a surplus HP 10811 oscillator.
I&
pically take
about three weeks of continuous operation before they
rejoin their spec sheet drift specification.
So, they will drift more for a little while, then settle
down to meet or exceed the spec sheet.
--- Graham / KE9H
==
On 11/5/2012 8:49 AM, Chris Howard wrote:
I built a GPSDO using my ow
Chris:
This says your EFC circuit is not working, and you are only
getting 0.05 Hz frequency change across the -5 to +5 EFC range.
The spec on the HP10811 is 1.0 Hz minimum.
And, yes, in a counter the EFC circuit is not used, so no one would
know if it failed.
It is very simple circuit. The o
If you want an "existence proof" for a simple, mostly analog, a few digital
counters, no software or microprocessor GPSDO, look at the "Miller" GPSDO.
He designed it for his own use, then put it into production because of
demand for a simple, cheap GPSDO. It has been characterized, and works
well
Nick:
You can do it this way, but it requires you to totally understand the
mathematics and granularity of ALL of the frequency sources and
synthesizers in the superhet receiver.
And if there are any audio soundcards or sampling devices involved, the
specifications and origin of the sampling clock
You need to be able to measure frequency accurately in the milli-Hertz
range to be competitive in the frequency measuring contests.
I doubt the Selective Voltmeters have that level of resolution. I think
they 'only' read to 0.1 Hz.
--- Graham
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Pete Lancashire
Most of the folks doing the FMT these days use some sort of audio
spectrum analyzer program and estimate the frequency using that.
Or use the audio spectrum analyzer to measure the difference between
the frequency being measured and the precision reference. You are
correct, it is usually not a cla
This is heavily used in cellular system security and cellular unit
identification and tracking.
Do a google search on patents using the the term "RF fingerprinting" and
you will get quite a few hits. Mostly recent application to cellular
systems. You might look at the prior art listings and see i
We use
"Advanced Assembly" in Colorado for prototype assembly.
http://aa-pcbassembly.com/
For just one or two boards, it is faster to hand solder the parts, as long
as no BGA's or similar.
If complex soldering like BGAs, or more than three boards, we use a proto
assembly house.
--- Graham
==
O
Don Latham said
to Discussion
I do not see why a small pick and place assist system could not be built on
a 3-d printer.
Lots of problems to be solved...
How do you take loose parts or cut tape or tape reels and get the right
part out, and into the chuck, oriented in the right direction?
How man
42
On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 7:59 PM, Hal Murray wrote:
>
> t...@leapsecond.com said:
> > Earth is a very noisy, wandering, drifting,
> incredibly-expensive-to-measure,
> > low-precision (though high-Q) clock.
>
> What is the Q of the Earth? It might be on one of your web pages, but I
> don't rem
It is not traditional phase noise, and not a normal Nyquist filtering
problem, but, yes, presence of significant second harmonic energy in your
DDS output will shift/dither your squaring input.
It is hard, with practical filters and filter components to get much better
coverage than one-half octav
The best type of stereo microscope to use for SMT assembly is referred to
as an "Inspection Microscope."
Magnification greater than 10 is not needed or desirable for normal
assembly.
Something in the range of 5 to 10 works well.
A wide field of view and a good light source are desirable.
Just as B
A good source for experimenters / home builders of small quantities of
tin-lead solder paste is:
http://kd5ssj.com/
http://kd5ssj.com/solderpaste
The supplier, Cash Olson, KD5SSJ, is an amateur radio operator that for
some extra pocket money in his retirement, repackages fresh Kester 256
solder p
al time
OS, such as Linux with a real-time kernel. This does not cure the problem,
but does put bounds on it.
--- Graham / KE9H
==
On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 7:03 AM, Bob Camp wrote:
> Hi
>
> As others have mentioned, you have two strikes against you:
>
> 1) Modern laptops *love* powe
For the group. This ham is trying to work EME. Earth-Moon-Earth propagation
path. Aka, "moonbounce."
He is trying to time synchronize a system, where the other station he is
communicating
with can be any other place on the Earth that can also see the Moon.
So the system time sync is for a little
If you have a legitimate application for the part, and some volume
associated with the application, and you convince their sales person of
that, then the data sheets are made available.
--- Graham
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 8:01 AM, jimlux wrote:
> On 10/10/16 11:27 PM, djl wrote:
>
>> But how the
Actually, if they have the "CE" stamp on the product, then they have very
specific radio interference limits that they must test and meet.
It must have been tested, certified, and the certification package
available for inspection.
Whether they actually met it, then pulled the interference supress
Here is the TI document on "Case Marking." It may not be a 74S30.
http://www.ti.com/lit/an/snoa039c/snoa039c.pdf
--- Graham
==
On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Adrian Godwin wrote:
> That's one sweet soldering iron. Is it an American Beauty ?
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 4:31 PM, Peter Rei
If you are in a position where you are worried about damaging the PCB.
(And I would really be worried cutting any part in half with cutters, or
cutting leads off an IC with diagonal cutters.)
For two leaded parts, "Hot tweezers" work fine.
For parts with more leads, like ICs, you need hot air tools
You need a definition of "Quality" to work with.
One definition might be "does it meet published specs? under what
conditions?"
Another definition might be associated with reliability and ruggedness.
Longevity in outdoor conditions.
Another might be with the antenna supporting your use case.
Anoth
Is your oven doing what it is supposed to be doing?
Sounds more like an oven problem than a crystal problem.
--- Graham
==
On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 7:00 PM, Alan Melia
wrote:
> Michael a couple of wild thoughts, make sure there is no 500kHz there
> (this is the crystal fundamental and the main
The core of the inductors are commonly powdered iron (of various alloys),
held together with a plastic binder.
The early plastics shrank and changed shape with time, changing the
inductance over decades.
Later binders are much more stable.
Not much you can do about it, other than change the inducto
The BeagleBone Green is a BeagleBone Black with the HDMI and video chip
removed.
Mouser Part number *Mouser Part #: *713-102010027, $39, In stock.
Makes a great little headless server.
--- Graham
==
On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 3:51 PM, Clint Jay wrote:
> Raspberry Pi compute module? Maybe even
If you are going to go battery powered, I would also recommend staying away
from Linux, go with something like a 32 bit PIC32MX or PIC32MZ. Full
Ethernet stack, RTOS if you need it, can do deep sleep down into the
microamp range when not active.
--- Graham.
On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Gary
Remember that the internal Voltage reference in the original three terminal
regulator designs is a Zener.
(Zeners are also useful as RF white noise sources.)
The regulator is generally an amplifier with DC feedback.
If you look at the application notes on the early regulators, they require
capacito
How did the Mayans deal with leap seconds?
--- Graham
==
On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 4:28 AM, Mark Sims wrote:
> Heather defaults to the unambiguous format 13 DEC 2016. There is a
> command for showing the date in the ISO format -ddd where ddd is the
> day of the year.
>
> I just added back t
?
Instructions on how to calibrate and compensate it?
My impression is that it is a lot easier for an experimenter to manage
an HP10811 oscillator
where you just put power on it and a signal comes out.
Thanks,
--- Graham / KE9H
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ings by eBay id: de_w7eme
Or contact Jeremy directly (W7EME) and see if he can help you out.
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On 10/16/2013 11:30 PM, Jim Lux wrote:
On 10/16/13 8:26 PM, quartz55 wrote:
I've been searching for the small copper hardline I can use for the
feed on the gps volute (egg beat
rneath
the oven. I have seen all three cases. As usual, it is suggested that you
read the [] manual.
Best regards,
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On 10/29/2013 9:18 PM, John C. Westmoreland, P.E. wrote:
Hello,
I was wondering if I could get some recommendations on surface mount OCXO's
vs.
AJ6BC
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Graham / KE9H wrote:
John:
All SMT OCXO's will either have a recommended PCB footprint in the spec
sheet
or will refer you to a recommended footprint in another document.
Some don't care about a ground plane under the part, some require it
w
John:
We have one at work. It basically works as represented.
It takes some skill to run, and takes some time to develop the
safe settings for soldering different sized items. It puts out a tremendous
amount of infrared heat, and you can melt things if you are not careful.
For instance, it wil
jump
equal to
the apparent change in location of the receiver, for the different solution.
With heavy multi-path/reflections, antennas just a few cm apart will be
looking
at different solutions, and will jump time/location at different times.
--- Graham / KE9H
==
On 11/19/2013 10:45 AM, Chris
ce as the
rest of the computer.
--- Graham / KE9H
==
On 12/7/2013 2:24 PM, quartz55 wrote:
I've been testing my soundcard measurement capability with Speclab, so I hooked
my LPRO Rb to lock my Moto Service Monitor, fed the 1K audio out into the sound
card and I measured the freq over about
SN65LVDS34D
--- Graham / KE9H
==
On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 3:45 PM, Vlad wrote:
>
>
> On 2018-01-19 14:31, Tom Van Baak wrote:
>
>> John's TADD-2-mini [1] uses the Wenzel sine-to-square converter. It
>> performs very well but requires +10 V.
>>
>
And if I do some longer term averaging, I can get another one after that.
:-)
--- Graham
==
On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 11:16 AM, Ron Bean
wrote:
> https://hackaday.com/2018/01/17/confessions-of-a-reformed-
> frequency-standard-nut/
>
> "Or are you chasing that last digit just because it’s there?
> The Chinese have no concept of, or ignore, intellectual property rights.
Do not forget that China is a communist government and culture..
And has been since about 1948.
So no one left who was raised under a different system of government.
Under communism, every thing is owned by "the people."
I
Did you move it near a desktop PC or other computer, or move a desktop, or
other PC, video screen or switching power supply in the vicinity of the
Symmetricom or WWVB antenna?
I am learning the hard way that PC and LED/LCD video screens are horrible
generators of noise in the LF spectrum.
--- Gra
Phase noise is (usually) more important than absolute frequency accuracy.
I suggest some kind of low phase noise master oscillator (OCXO) feeding a
DDS without an internal multiplier.
If internal multiplier in DDS, that, rather than the frequency reference
source will set the phase noise floor of
As usual, the answer is "it depends."
If the output is a single isolated output, then terminating load not
required, but no harm providing.
If the output is a multiple output, from a single driver, through a
resistive or transformer splitter, then the level stability on all ports
and the port to
Your existing Eagle license should allow you to run your existing version
indefinitely.
I think it would be useful for a few years or so.
I also think your existing license also allows you to run one copy on Mac,
Linux or Windows.
So, if you are on Windows 7 and think you might want to migrate to
Hi John:
It is still an effective tripling or quadrupling of the cost.
I purchased a "non profit" license several years ago for $129. "Non
commercial, 4 layers, up to 160 sq cm., all functionality enabled."
They converted this to a "standard" license over time.
A license was good for the life of
Mike:
You can get Eagle 7.7 at:
ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/eagle/program/7.7/
Somehow, that ftp server is still up and serving downloads.
--- Graham
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On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 6:56 PM, Mike Suhar wrote:
> Many companies are trying to jump on the subscription band wagon. It is a
> way to keep a st
Or, switch to the best "free" open source solution, which is KiCad.
Eagle had a bunch of quirks. I hear KiCad has a different set of quirks.
So a learning curve to get up on KiCad and, for me, an issue migrating ten
years personal library of component foot-prints.
I heard a blogger suggest that
Anders:
What antenna are you using that you call the "mini-whip?"
Specifically, how long is the "whip?"
Thanks,
--- Graham
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On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 3:57 AM, Anders Wallin
wrote:
> FWIW, for fun I measured the LF stations MSF, DCF, and TDF just a few days
> ago. The signals look like this fr
If you have never seen them, you must make a pilgrimage to see the Harrison
Clocks at the Greenwich Observatory.
If you have not read the book, you must read the book "Longitude" before
seeing the clocks.
--- Graham
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 8:05 AM, Attila Kinali wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'll be in the
when the serial message shows up.
--- Graham / KE9H
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On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 6:46 PM, Ben Hall wrote:
> Good evening all,
>
> There is a saying: "a man with one watch knows the time, a man with two is
> never sure." Clearly, this man wasn't a timenut and didn
Read the spec sheet on the part you are using for a driver.
The size of the resistor on the paralleled driver side will be set by the
maximum current of the devices.
Decide how conservative a design you want.
Do you want it to drive into a shorted load and survive?
[If each output is rated at 20 m
ginal die.
So, when they copied the die, they really just copied it. Didn't change a
thing. It was not like they redesigned it, or were selling their own design
with equivalent functionality.
--- Graham / KE9H
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On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Pete Stephenson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
gt; functioning as advertised, it also is legitimate. If it is a clone, it's
> a goood one, but I don't think it is.
>
> Cheers!
> -Pete
>
> --
> Pete Stephenson
>
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017, at 10:34 PM, Graham / KE9H wrote:
> > Pete:
> >
> > If yo
The typical method of frequency correction is not to add or subtract
capacitance across the crystal, (like an old analog engineer would do) but
rather to add or subtract pulses to the stream of cycles/pulses coming out
of the crystal oscillator. More the kind of correction a digital engineer
would
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