Re: [time-nuts] 5065 photo/lamp problem

2020-01-15 Thread paul swed
Magnus Indeed the minimum required order. We are fortunate that there are some larger vendors who have simplified that. Also ebay is good about small counts but then they stick silly shipping costs on Good luck Paul On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 10:08 PM Magnus Danielson wrote: > Hi, > > Yes, I've

Re: [time-nuts] DAC for OCXO disciplining

2020-01-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In 1974 the "39A Precision Oscillator" for the L5 Coax system boasted a 14-bit DAC to set the frequency. The article about it is quite interesting: https://archive.org/details/bstj53-10-2097 They spec sort-of-an-avar: "This 5.12-MHz precision oscillator is characterize

Re: [time-nuts] 1 pps Accuracy in two locations

2020-01-15 Thread Attila Kinali
On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 09:40:34 - wrote: > I'm always being asked to provide equipment that can produce two 1 pps > outputs aligned to each other to within a few ps. > > These two 1 pps pulses are not in the same location and could be 100 metres > to a few km away. As others have written, getti

Re: [time-nuts] 1 pps Accuracy in two locations

2020-01-15 Thread Dana Whitlow
If anybody knows how to do this, I bet it would be the people who do long-baseline interferometry at millimeter-wave frequencies, such as at the eVLA in New Mexico. Dana On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 4:35 PM Attila Kinali wrote: > On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 09:40:34 - > wrote: > > > I'm always being as

Re: [time-nuts] 1 pps Accuracy in two locations

2020-01-15 Thread Attila Kinali
On Wed, 15 Jan 2020 16:39:45 -0600 Dana Whitlow wrote: > If anybody knows how to do this, I bet it would be the people who do > long-baseline > interferometry at millimeter-wave frequencies, such as at the eVLA in New > Mexico. You probably know that much better than I do, but I thought that VLB

Re: [time-nuts] 1 pps Accuracy in two locations

2020-01-15 Thread Dana Whitlow
That is true. Is post-processing not an option here? Dana On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 5:05 PM Attila Kinali wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jan 2020 16:39:45 -0600 > Dana Whitlow wrote: > > > If anybody knows how to do this, I bet it would be the people who do > > long-baseline > > interferometry at millime

Re: [time-nuts] 1 pps Accuracy in two locations

2020-01-15 Thread jimlux
On 1/15/20 2:34 PM, Attila Kinali wrote: On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 09:40:34 - wrote: I'm always being asked to provide equipment that can produce two 1 pps outputs aligned to each other to within a few ps. These two 1 pps pulses are not in the same location and could be 100 metres to a few km aw

Re: [time-nuts] 1 pps Accuracy in two locations

2020-01-15 Thread jimlux
VLA and ALMA aren't exactly VLBI - they're all in the same (general) place and they distribute LO and timing signals to all the antennas. Larry D'Addario, recently retired from JPL and now down at Caltech, described the setup at ALMA in 2009 - He's talking 1 microsecond, maybe 100 nanoseconds.