Mark, I hope you or someone else is able to come up with a Thunderbolt controller for the many of us who have or will be receiving Thunderbolts. A controller based on a LCD touchscreen would be great in the since that one could assemble a self-contained frequency standard based on the Thunderbolt.
Keep us informed in you progress with this project. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 8:02 PM Subject: [time-nuts] THUNDERBOLT STATUS LED'S > > The Thunderbolt does not produce NMEA messages, so you would need to > parse the TSIP data stream. My C program to do that for all Thunderbolt > messages is around 2700 lines long. > > LOCK on the Thunderbolt is not a simple question to answer with a single > blinkey light. There are many degrees of lockage and unlockage to > consider. You have satellite lock, oscillator lock, signal quality, > oscillator holdover, PPS offset, frequency offset, etc. A simple LED > lock light would leave much to the imagination (but then, what you don't > know can't hurt you, right...) > > I am working on a Thunderbolt controller based on a small LCD touchscreen > graphics controller (mega-donkey.com). First I will probably do a version > that runs on old laptops. > _________________________________________________________________ > Earn cashback on your purchases with Live Search - the search that pays > you back! > http://search.live.com/cashback/?&pkw=form=MIJAAF/publ=HMTGL/crea=earncashback > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
