Though the $35 special is only good for 1 unit per person,
Synergy offers a 10% educational/ham radio/experimenter discount for
additional/subsequent units
bringing the price to around $63 for time-nuts who need more than 1. I'm
thinking the other unit they have announced (without the PIC) should be even
cheaper. Maybe if we are real nice they will offer a single unit special
price on that one when it comes out early next year.
Dale NV8U
-----Original Message-----
From: Don Latham
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 1:59 PM
To: Tom Van Baak ; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] SSR-6t Connector
Had a good conversation with Art Slepin at Synergy. He said, if my
ancient memory serves, that the PIC on the new board will be available
for programming, and that it might be possible to do an ONCORE as a
software conversion from the UBLOX to the output connector. Just who is
going to do this, not sure. But it will be possible.
The newer versions of the SST will be programmable through the serial
port. At present, the extra side port on the board is a programming
connector. The info will be on Synergy's SST website. Even at $70 per,
a UBLOX timer and PIC on the same board might be very cost-effective for
all sorts of fooling around!
Don
Tom Van Baak
Hi Paul,
I'm pretty sure the hp Z3801A and 58503A/B (and perhaps other 1990's
era) GPSDO use the Motorola Oncore VP receiver. It was, and still is, a
famous GPS timing receiver. Later, many GPSDO evolved to use the
Motorola/iLotus M12 receiver.
The new Synergy SST-6T is a clever combination h/w and s/w that turns a
uBlox 6T & PIC into a PCB that is both h/w and s/w compatible with an
M12. It's a drop-in replacement. But as such, it won't work in a device
that is uses an old Motorola UT/GT/VP receiver.
I suggested that they also come up with a board that is VP compatible,
but you realize the number of 15-year-old Oncore VP's in the field is
probably not that high. It would make an excellent labor-of-love project
to create a VP-compatible uBlox 6T board, but it's probably not
something you can make a business case for.
/tvb
----- Original Message -----
From: "paul swed" <[email protected]>
To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 7:41 AM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] SSR-6t Connector
Not to hijack the thread. I purchased a ssr and have not rcvd it yet.
But
my simple interest is to if needed replace the rcvr in my z3801. There
have
been threads on time-nuts that these rcvrs do fail with age.
My belief is that though the connector on the 3801 may be different
and it
is 5V, essentially connecting the 1 pps TX RX data and power should
allow
this to replace the older rcvr.
Am I on the right track?
As a longer term goal and question does this new rcvr actually improve
a
3801s stability?
Thanks
Paul
WB8TSL
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 10:16 AM, David Martin <
[email protected]> wrote:
I had a Motorola M12+ all hooked up with a RF pigtail and data header
so I
just unplugged the Motorola and plugged in the SSR-6t.
The data connector was purchased from digikey several years ago and
the
details have been lost in the dust.
However it looks like
http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail&name=A33546-ND
I'm unhappy with the one I'm using as the contacts spring pressure is
weak
against the connector pin -- I will have to consider looking for a
more
"firm" fitting data connector.
The RF pigtail was also obtained years ago from data-alliance.net -
their
P3B adapter cable.
See
http://www.data-alliance.net/servlet/-strse-800/MCX-BNC-female-Adapter/Detail
- Sent from my iPhone -
Please Reply To
David Martin
[email protected]
801-372-0978
Just curious,
what connector/pigtail/adapter board did you use to access the 2x5
1.27mm
pitch connector on your SSR-6T.
Thanks,
Dale NV8U
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