Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 28, Issue 5

2006-11-05 Thread Clive Green
Certificated Time Nut (Clive Green) certainly a wavemeter should count, so
should Lecher Lines, not sure about a calibrated candle or sun dial (maybe
if its very nice) but not hour glass / egg timer. Really well aged tuning
fork  OK but not the bowl of water with a hole in it gismo. If GPS or Rb
are to be the lowest these very important steps certainly drop off the
bottom.

Clive Green
Managing Director
Quartzlock (UK) Ltd
Gothic, Plymouth Road, Totnes, DEVON. TQ9 5LH
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246 062
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Scan one at RBG 600 DPI or better; I wee what I can do.

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Hi John,
 Ok. Great idea.  We should make up a certificate that looks
like an NIST cert. that certifies that if we have a working
Cesium  or hydrogen maser standard or two or more standards that can
be traceable to NIST, you can become a Certified  Time Nut. It will
look nice hanging over a person's maser.
  Of course we could have levels as well. Master Nut (Own a
maser or 5071) and then levels like primary, secondary and tertiary.
The lowest could be  having just a GPS source or rubidium.  What do
you think? Maybe we could come up with something interesting. Anyone
want to make them up?
 Doug



At 05:47 AM 11/4/2006, you wrote:
Doug Millar said the following on 11/03/2006 09:57 PM:

   Should we be considered certified time nuts? or
  just certifiable?

Depends on whether you're traceable to NIST...

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You really need to get Borgmans permission to include the
Zits nanosecond strip on the certificate.

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John Ackermann N8UR wrote:

Doug Millar said the following on 11/03/2006 09:57 PM:



 Should we be considered certified time nuts? or
just certifiable?



Depends on whether 

Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 28, Issue 5

2006-11-05 Thread Jack Hudler
If you can combine Water with Cesium/Rubidium to make a functional exothermic
clock... you would rate a certifiable award in some category.
Extra classification points if you can contain it in an hour glass.

I'm sure all would agree the resulting display would be quite spectacular if not
an explosive demonstration of a technological leap... if you get my meaning. ;)

Jack Hudler
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Certificated Time Nut (Clive Green) certainly a wavemeter should count, so
should Lecher Lines, not sure about a calibrated candle or sun dial (maybe
if its very nice) but not hour glass / egg timer. Really well aged tuning
fork  OK but not the bowl of water with a hole in it gismo. If GPS or Rb
are to be the lowest these very important steps certainly drop off the
bottom.

Clive Green
Managing Director
Quartzlock (UK) Ltd
Gothic, Plymouth Road, Totnes, DEVON. TQ9 5LH
Tel: - +44 (0) 1803 862 062 Fax: - +44 (0) 1803 867 962 Mob: - +44 (0) 7714
246 062
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Re: [time-nuts] Re Certified Time Nut Certificate

2006-11-05 Thread Tim Shoppa
Doug Millar said the following on 11/03/2006 09:57 PM:

   Should we be considered certified time nuts? or
  just certifiable?

 Depends on whether you're traceable to NIST...

But some of us know folks who are! Wear one of these (or make your
brother-in-law wear one of these, how'd you do that Tom?) and there
will be no need for a certificate...

  http://www.leapsecond.com/pages/atomic-bill/

Tim.

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Re: [time-nuts] Re Certified Time Nut Certificate

2006-11-05 Thread Magnus Danielson
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Shoppa)
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Re Certified Time Nut Certificate
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 09:25:12 -0500
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 Doug Millar said the following on 11/03/2006 09:57 PM:
 
Should we be considered certified time nuts? or
   just certifiable?
 
  Depends on whether you're traceable to NIST...
 
 But some of us know folks who are! Wear one of these (or make your
 brother-in-law wear one of these, how'd you do that Tom?) and there
 will be no need for a certificate...

Let me quess. A discussion of atomic wrist watches was passed over to Tom and
under the influence of some beer Tom and Bill came up with the idea and it
felt like a good one even they day after when they took the photos. No?

   http://www.leapsecond.com/pages/atomic-bill/

I laugthed myself into pieces over that one. ;O)

It needs a thad of update thought, neither HP or Agilent sells these wrist-
watches anymore, Symmetricom is the manufacture these days.

Cheers,
Magnus - haven't attempted to redo it.

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Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 28, Issue 5

2006-11-05 Thread Didier Juges
As much as I believe there should be a place and appropriate recognition 
for anyone who has shown dedication to the art of time keeping, 
regardless of the technology employed, I remind you of the bylaws of the 
time-nuts group:

/quote
Time-Nuts/ is a mailing list for amateurs who are interested in precise 
Time  Frequency. Topics include stability of quartz oscillators, 
measurements of rubidium and cesium atomic clocks, using WWVB, Loran-C, 
and GPS for long-term comparisons.
/quote

So maybe these dedicated time keepers who employ technology not listed 
above should not qualify.

I don't see Lecher lines, tuning forks or sun dials there :-)

Anyway, how do you compute the Allan Deviation of a sun dial?

Didier KO4BB



Clive Green wrote:
 Certificated Time Nut (Clive Green) certainly a wavemeter should count, so
 should Lecher Lines, not sure about a calibrated candle or sun dial (maybe
 if its very nice) but not hour glass / egg timer. Really well aged tuning
 fork  OK but not the bowl of water with a hole in it gismo. If GPS or Rb
 are to be the lowest these very important steps certainly drop off the
 bottom.

 Clive Green
 Managing Director
 Quartzlock (UK) Ltd
 Gothic, Plymouth Road, Totnes, DEVON. TQ9 5LH
 Tel: - +44 (0) 1803 862 062 Fax: - +44 (0) 1803 867 962 Mob: - +44 (0) 7714
 246 062
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]  www.quartzlock.com
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Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 28, Issue 5

2006-11-05 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Didier Juges said the following on 11/05/2006 09:42 AM:

 Anyway, how do you compute the Allan Deviation of a sun dial?

Oh, God, now someone's going to do it...

John


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Re: [time-nuts] Re Certified Time Nut Certificate

2006-11-05 Thread Tom Van Baak
http://www.leapsecond.com/pages/atomic-bill/

 I laugthed myself into pieces over that one. ;O)

 It needs a thad of update thought, neither HP or Agilent sells these
wrist-
 watches anymore, Symmetricom is the manufacture these days.

OK, I fixed the HP link. Thanks.
/tvb


 Cheers,
 Magnus - haven't attempted to redo it.



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Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 28, Issue 5

2006-11-05 Thread Rob Kimberley
Good point!!

Rob K 

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As much as I believe there should be a place and appropriate recognition for
anyone who has shown dedication to the art of time keeping, regardless of
the technology employed, I remind you of the bylaws of the time-nuts group:

/quote
Time-Nuts/ is a mailing list for amateurs who are interested in precise Time
 Frequency. Topics include stability of quartz oscillators, measurements of
rubidium and cesium atomic clocks, using WWVB, Loran-C, and GPS for
long-term comparisons.
/quote

So maybe these dedicated time keepers who employ technology not listed above
should not qualify.

I don't see Lecher lines, tuning forks or sun dials there :-)

Anyway, how do you compute the Allan Deviation of a sun dial?

Didier KO4BB



Clive Green wrote:
 Certificated Time Nut (Clive Green) certainly a wavemeter should 
 count, so should Lecher Lines, not sure about a calibrated candle or 
 sun dial (maybe if its very nice) but not hour glass / egg timer. 
 Really well aged tuning fork  OK but not the bowl of water with a 
 hole in it gismo. If GPS or Rb are to be the lowest these very 
 important steps certainly drop off the bottom.

 Clive Green
 Managing Director
 Quartzlock (UK) Ltd
 Gothic, Plymouth Road, Totnes, DEVON. TQ9 5LH
 Tel: - +44 (0) 1803 862 062 Fax: - +44 (0) 1803 867 962 Mob: - +44 (0) 
 7714
 246 062
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]  
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Re: [time-nuts] Re Certified Time Nut Certificate

2006-11-05 Thread Tim Shoppa
Magnus Danielson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 No, my car doesn't have GPS clock or Atomic clock, it just have Fords standard
 quartz clock, uncalibrated and all.

Considering the environment, automotive clocks are remarkably good.
(I'm talking about the quartz ones here, although I certainly
have a lot of respect for the motor-wound spring ones that were
common up through the 1970's and maybe early 80's).

The cars I deal with, twice a year we add or subtract an hour for
daylight savings time, but other than that the only time I ever
set the minutes is when a new car battery and/or alternator
goes in, which is like every 5 or 7 years.

That is impressively good for a quartz crystal exposed to -40 to
150F temperatures. Are they really TCXO's or just really solidly
specced and built?

Tim.

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Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 28, Issue 5

2006-11-05 Thread Didier Juges
Well, I am sorry to report that you failed this simple test: you need an 
*abacus* of course :-)

(an abacus with statistical functions helps, but I have not seen one, or 
maybe a programmable abacus...)

Didier KO4BB


John Ackermann N8UR wrote:
 Didier Juges said the following on 11/05/2006 09:42 AM:

   
 Anyway, how do you compute the Allan Deviation of a sun dial?
 

 Oh, God, now someone's going to do it...

 John


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Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 28, Issue 5

2006-11-05 Thread Tom Van Baak
  Anyway, how do you compute the Allan Deviation of a sun dial?
 
 Oh, God, now someone's going to do it...
 
 John

Well, yes, thanks for asking! I did it a year ago.

The lab report on earth, including Allan deviation is at:

http://www.leapsecond.com/museum/earth/

/tvb


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[time-nuts] philosophical question

2006-11-05 Thread Mark Amos
Time nuts,

Being a recent addition to the list, I'm going to use my one dumb question* 
card on an epistemological 
question that's puzzling me.

When you come up with a better measuring device (clock, oscillator, etc.), how 
do you know its better?  
Since, presumably, the only other tools available to measure it are not as 
good, how can one tell if 
it's better (more precise, more accurate, more consistent, etc.)

I'm probably just suffering from lack of sleep (from worrying about this...)

Any thoughts?

Mark

*my old Jr. High shop teacher was fond of saying - usually in reference to me - 
There are no dumb 
questions; only dumb people.




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[time-nuts] Wavecrest counter

2006-11-05 Thread Magnus Danielson
Hi!

This weekend I spent a few cycles on making my Wavecrest SIA-3000P more
interactively usefull. The P model has no front display and keyboard, but
hooking up an VGA monitor at the back gave me a picture. The next thing was to
get a mouse working over USB, but I needed a keyboard to press enter in the
Win98 driver installation stuff. However, poping the lid up I hooked a normal
PS2 keyboard to the keyboard connector of the processor board, hit enter a few
times and away I was and had a working USB mouse. However, I want a keyboard
too and don't want to fiddle around by letting the keyboard be stuck through
the GPIB port or something similarly stupid. So, I just went out and bought
myself a USB hub (first time ever) and USB keyboard (first time ever) and sure
enought, it was again simply accepting the installation stuff and I had both
the USB mouse and USB keyboard operating over the USB hub. Now I have closed up
the SIA and later tonight I have to find a nice spot in the lab for it.

Anyway, if you guys would run into one of these, now you know what you have to
do. There is a few other things I would like to do with it, but that will have
to wait.

Cheers,
Magnus

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Re: [time-nuts] Earth: An Oscillator and Frequency Standard

2006-11-05 Thread Brooke Clarke
Hi Tom:

Thanks for the lab test report on the earth frequency standard.  Since 
there are a number of frequency/time standards that have much better 
performance I'd like to find a way to directly measure the performance 
of the earth standard.  I've thought about a telescope looking at stars 
or maybe a photo detector to look at the light from the closest star to 
the earth frequency standard.  Do  you have any ideas on how to make 
these measurements?

Have Fun,

Brooke Clarke

w/Java http://www.PRC68.com
w/o Java http://www.pacificsites.com/~brooke/PRC68COM.shtml
http://www.precisionclock.com



Tom Van Baak wrote:

Anyway, how do you compute the Allan Deviation of a sun dial?
  

Oh, God, now someone's going to do it...

John



Well, yes, thanks for asking! I did it a year ago.

The lab report on earth, including Allan deviation is at:

http://www.leapsecond.com/museum/earth/

/tvb

  

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Re: [time-nuts] philosophical question

2006-11-05 Thread Tom Van Baak
Mark,

Good question. Here are the rules:

1) If all you have is one clock - then that is the true
time, period.

2) If you have two clocks and they always agree, then
that just means you need better measuring tools.

3) If you have two clocks and a good comparator, then
at least you can tell how much they differ, even if you
can't tell which of the two is the better clock.

4) So if you have three clocks and comparators then
not only can you tell how they differ amongst themselves,
but if one is worse than the others, it will be evident.

5) And in the event that two or more clocks appear to
be equally good, then the average of those clocks will
be better than any one.

Make sense?

Follow this thought process and then you realize why
UTC is based on an average of atomic clocks at some
50 labs around the world.

/tvb
http://www.LeapSecond.com


 Time nuts,

 Being a recent addition to the list, I'm going to use my one dumb
question* card on an epistemological
 question that's puzzling me.

 When you come up with a better measuring device (clock, oscillator, etc.),
how do you know its better?
 Since, presumably, the only other tools available to measure it are not as
good, how can one tell if
 it's better (more precise, more accurate, more consistent, etc.)

 I'm probably just suffering from lack of sleep (from worrying about
this...)

 Any thoughts?

 Mark

 *my old Jr. High shop teacher was fond of saying - usually in reference to
me - There are no dumb
 questions; only dumb people.



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Re: [time-nuts] Earth: An Oscillator and Frequency Standard

2006-11-05 Thread Bill Hawkins
Brooke,

I proposed a platform driven by a synchronous motor referred
to a cesium standard. On this platform is an arrangement to
project an attenuated image of the sun onto a mirror that is
attached to a galvanometer. Light-beam galvos used this kind
of arrangement. The mirror projects the solar image onto a split
detector, such that the output of two photocells cancels when the
image is centered. The detector drives a servo to keep the image
centered using the mirror galvanometer. You'll also need a vertical
servo to track the sun through the day.

The signal to the galvo is proportional to the deviation of the
suns image. Remove the equation of time (a few percent) and you
have the deviation from solar time. Do a lot of these and you
can apply statistical methods to find the Earth's wobbles.

Sounds like great fun, but beyond my capabilities. A rotating
platform with no error in angles, for instance. A clear field
of view, for another.

Regards,
Bill Hawkins


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Behalf Of Brooke Clarke
Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 1:29 PM
To: Tom Van Baak; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Earth: An Oscillator and Frequency Standard

Hi Tom:

Thanks for the lab test report on the earth frequency standard.  Since
there are a number of frequency/time standards that have much better
performance I'd like to find a way to directly measure the performance
of the earth standard.  I've thought about a telescope looking at stars
or maybe a photo detector to look at the light from the closest star to
the earth frequency standard.  Do  you have any ideas on how to make
these measurements?

Have Fun,

Brooke Clarke

w/Java http://www.PRC68.com
w/o Java http://www.pacificsites.com/~brooke/PRC68COM.shtml
http://www.precisionclock.com



Tom Van Baak wrote:

Anyway, how do you compute the Allan Deviation of a sun dial?
  

Oh, God, now someone's going to do it...

John



Well, yes, thanks for asking! I did it a year ago.

The lab report on earth, including Allan deviation is at:

http://www.leapsecond.com/museum/earth/

/tvb

  

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Re: [time-nuts] Earth: An Oscillator and Frequency Standard

2006-11-05 Thread Dr Bruce Griffiths
Brooke Clarke wrote:
 Hi Tom:

 Thanks for the lab test report on the earth frequency standard.  Since 
 there are a number of frequency/time standards that have much better 
 performance I'd like to find a way to directly measure the performance 
 of the earth standard.  I've thought about a telescope looking at stars 
 or maybe a photo detector to look at the light from the closest star to 
 the earth frequency standard.  Do  you have any ideas on how to make 
 these measurements?

 Have Fun,

 Brooke Clarke

 w/Java http://www.PRC68.com
 w/o Java http://www.pacificsites.com/~brooke/PRC68COM.shtml
 http://www.precisionclock.com



 Tom Van Baak wrote:

   
 Anyway, how do you compute the Allan Deviation of a sun dial?
  

 
 Oh, God, now someone's going to do it...

 John


   
 Well, yes, thanks for asking! I did it a year ago.

 The lab report on earth, including Allan deviation is at:

 http://www.leapsecond.com/museum/earth/

 /tvb

  

 
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The conventional solution is either a meridian transit instrument or a 
zenith tube, either of which is much easier and cheaper to construct 
than an accurately rotating platform.

Bruce

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Re: [time-nuts] Re Certified Time Nut Certificate

2006-11-05 Thread tom
hey is that where the little red wagon got its name ?  he used it to pull 
the backup battries with it and it had to be red for the live electric on 
board !!!
tom   w0kgw
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Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 8:25 AM
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 Doug Millar said the following on 11/03/2006 09:57 PM:

   Should we be considered certified time nuts? or
  just certifiable?

 Depends on whether you're traceable to NIST...

 But some of us know folks who are! Wear one of these (or make your
 brother-in-law wear one of these, how'd you do that Tom?) and there
 will be no need for a certificate...

  http://www.leapsecond.com/pages/atomic-bill/

 Tim.

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Re: [time-nuts] HP 5060A option 004

2006-11-05 Thread Robert Deliƫn
 I put pictures of it on the web: http://tichu.free.fr/HP_5060A/ As
 con can see, some controls on the front were removed (scavenged ?),
 but the oven  labels have been painted over: was it part of the
 option 004 tube upgrade ?

Ha, you've got the other one! I bet you got that one on eBay, from a Dutch 
fellow. He also had a 5061A for sale, which is now in my posession. It's in 
similar shape: Crystal over missing, front panel meter missing. At least yours 
still has the C field meter, mine doesn't. The guy selling it to me turned out 
to be a collegue of mine at Philips NatLab. If you know a good source of spare 
parts, please keep me posted or I'll be stuck with a source of spare parts 
myself ;-)

Robert.

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Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 28, Issue 5

2006-11-05 Thread M. Warner Losh
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John Ackermann N8UR [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: Didier Juges said the following on 11/05/2006 09:42 AM:
: 
:  Anyway, how do you compute the Allan Deviation of a sun dial?
: 
: Oh, God, now someone's going to do it...

And they are going to tell us how they rigged up these photo sensors
and used that to create daily pulses at noon, and measured that
against a PPS from some standard and then logged data for a few
hundred days.

I doubt they can get a tau under an hour for it, however. :-)

Warner

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