[time-nuts] LH Z3801 and XP stalling

2016-12-13 Thread Mark Sims
I suspect that your system is set up to go to sleep.  

If that happens Heather won't see the response to the last message it sent.   
For SCPI receivers, Heather polls the device for a new piece of information 
every time it gets a response.  The requests alternate between the time code 
message and some receiver status value.  At xx:xx:33 Heather requests the 
syst:stat page which takes three seconds to come in.

No response to a request? No new request sent out...  If a new  response is not 
seen within a receiver-dependent timeout (5-20 seconds for the Z3801A), Heather 
attempts to restart communications, but a sleeping system borks that.

--

>   So pretty excited about LH running a Z3801. But what I am seeing is a
consitent stall roughly 45-50 minutes in.
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[time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available - date formats

2016-12-13 Thread Mark Sims
Well, one calendar did it In the most elegant way possible.  They divided the 
year into 12 months of 30 days.  Any days that were left over never happened 
and were spent doing things like  drunken orgies which magically never happened 
since the extra days did not exist.  'Twas not a good thing to be born during 
the off days... far worse than being born on 29 Feb.

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>  How did the Mayans deal with leap seconds?
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Re: [time-nuts] OT: ExpressPCB (cross-post from volts-nuts)

2016-12-13 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 08:25:52PM -0800, Chris Albertson wrote:
> Lowest price I've found is BasicPCB.com They charge $3 per
> square inch for 2 layers with mask and legend. 

OSHpark charges $5 per square inch for the standard 2 layer
order (which include three boards, i.e. actually 3 square
inch or $5/3 per square inch) including mask and silk screen
on both sides, no limit to vias or general drill hits but
unfortunately no electrical check.

> Minimum is three boards of 1 square inch. So you actually 
> can place a $9 order with them. 

You can get a a lot lower with OSHpark there, I had orders
below 2 USD and they ship for free, worldwide.

> They are a USA based company.

OSHpark too.

> They accept standard Gerber files.   

Besides Gerbers, they also process KiCad and Eagle design
files.

> This is very impotent as a few others like PCBexpress make 
> you use their proprietary layout software and then you are
> locked into that company for production runs too.

Yes, nasty.

> You need a workflow that uses Gerber files.

Best,
Herbert


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Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Ver 5 Problem

2016-12-13 Thread David J Taylor

To the group.
I have installed LH in the program folders of XP and also in other
directories they all seem to work as long as I clearly tell LH the place to
look.
Regards
Paul
WB8TSL
=

Paul, with Windows-7 and later directory protections have been tightened, 
and the user is no longer set up with Administrative privilege, hence the 
need to install programs where write access is needed to the program's 
directory outside the Program Files (or equivalent) tree.  Yes, Windows has 
work-rounds with virtual directories, but it's often more confusion than 
it's worth.


It must be over 7 years now since I had an Administrator-level user account, 
and I've never missed it.  There are easy ways to get the privileges when 
you need then, just for that one task.


73,
David GM8ARV
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[time-nuts] LH Z3801 and XP stalling

2016-12-13 Thread paul swed
So pretty excited about LH running a Z3801. But what I am seeing is a
consitent stall roughly 45-50 minutes in.
Using XP com1 a real port not usb. I have tried no control flow and XON/OFF
no difference.
I almost suspect LH is over running the Z3801 with complex requests.

Using HP Satstat I see requests are every 2 seconds or so and that keeps
running.
Guidance appreciated.
Thank you.
Paul
WB8TSL
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Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Ver 5 Problem

2016-12-13 Thread paul swed
Dick
Responded to you

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 12:41 AM, Richard W. Solomon 
wrote:

> As I e-mailed earlier, the cause was ticking the wrong shortcut.
> Once I ticked the right one, it opened up.
>
> NOW, how does one get it to run in full screen mode. I tried the /f
> tag but it did not work.
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Thanks, Dick, W1KSZ
>
> -Original Message-
> From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of John
> Miles
> Sent: Monday, December 12, 2016 10:04 PM
> To: 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement'
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Ver 5 Problem
>
> The error message in question came from the IPCONN::connect() method in
> ipconn.cpp.  That particular code (11004) is returned by gethostbyname()
> when it fails to resolve a DNS name.  Normally, when Heather tries to
> connect to the test server, gethostbyname() is used to turn "
> ke5fx.dyndns.org" into a numeric address that can be passed to
> connect().  If it returns 11004, it means that the client's DNS provider
> was able to find a record, but couldn't actually resolve it.
>
> Should just be a temporary glitch in the Matrix.  Nothing specific can be
> done about it AFAIK.
>
> -- john, KE5FX
> Miles Design LLC
>
> > I grep'd all the source code and there is no 11004 anywhere in the
> program...
> >
>
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Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available - date formats

2016-12-13 Thread Graham / KE9H
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 the -mm-dd format.  It was in there at one time, but
> got lost somewhere along the way...
>
> Why can't the world standardize of the Mayan long count?  Heather can do
> that right now.
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Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Ver 5 Problem

2016-12-13 Thread paul swed
Dick
I create a small batch and granted some of this can be done in the config
file.
I explicitly switch to the location I have LH in within the batch.
Then do the following
heather /1 /f /rxz /tz=-5est/edt
The 1 is the comport
f is full screen
rxz is z3801
tz if the timezone offset.

I have several batch files for different receivers and I have run several
LHs at the same time. TBolt and Z3801 as examples. Though without looking
at full screen the pix is useless.

To the group.
I have installed LH in the program folders of XP and also in other
directories they all seem to work as long as I clearly tell LH the place to
look.
Regards
Paul
WB8TSL


On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 8:11 PM, Richard W. Solomon 
wrote:

> I think I found the answer. It seems that two shortcuts found there way
> onto the screen. I just picked the wrong one.
>
> HOWEVER, how do I get it to open in Full Screen Mode ? I tried adding the
> /f command at the end, but it still opens in small screen mode /
>
> The O/S is Windows XP.
>
> Tnx, Dick, W1KSZ
>
> -Original Message-
> From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Richard
> W. Solomon
> Sent: Monday, December 12, 2016 12:45 PM
> To: time-nuts@febo.com
> Subject: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Ver 5 Problem
>
> I installed LH Ver 5 and when I try to open it I get an error message:
>
>
>
> ke5fx.dyndns.org not found (code 11004)
>
>
>
> Was I supposed to install it in the old LH Folder ?
>
>
>
> Thanks, Dick, W1KSZ
>
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Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Ver 5 Problem - full screen mode

2016-12-13 Thread Richard W. Solomon
Figured out how to get Full Screen mode ... just ticked on the Little 
Lady in the top left corner and ticked on MAXIMIZE ... voila, success.

Tnx es HH, Dick, W1KSZ

-Original Message-
From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Bill Riches
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 6:13 AM
To: 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement'
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Ver 5 Problem - full screen mode

Took a while but found out that /vs /fu worked for me.  Slick!

Bill, WA2DVU

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From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Mark Sims
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 1:06 AM
To: time-nuts@febo.com
Subject: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Ver 5 Problem - full screen mode

Ahhh, full screen mode... the demon mode from hell.  On most modern systems 
with large monitors it crashed the program.  It uses DirectDraw and if your 
DirectDraw implementation does not handle your monitor size, bye bye Heather.  
That means full screen mode (or clicking the MAXIMIZE button or pressing F11 
crashes Heather unless your monitor or graphics driver was a standard VGA era 
screen res like 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, or 1280x1024). Only those four 
monitor widths allow full screen mode.  Monitor height is not check for.

Because pressing the MAXIMIZE button was quite easy to do accidentally,  full 
screen mode is disabled by default (but F11 can't be disabled).  If your 
monitor / graphics driver is one of the magic sizes you can enable full screen 
mode with the new /fu command.  For instance for a 1024x768 screen try:
   /fu /vm

If you have a larger monitor and can configure your display driver for one of 
the magic sizes, that works.

The /f command now brings up Heather in a windowed mode sized to fill (most of) 
the screen.  You can also do that with $f from the keyboard.

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Re: [time-nuts] Time math libraries

2016-12-13 Thread Tom Van Baak
Eric, and time nuts -- A very nice set of questions and an interesting 
application. In fact it's so time nutty that I'll send it over to the LEAPSECS 
mailing list, which is the niche of time-nuts where we deal with issues of UTC, 
TAI, and leap seconds. You can pick up your replies there.

LEAPSECS -- please help Eric out. I know there are answers from bloated 
universal date/time packages to one page of elegant code. 

Thanks,
/tvb

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- Original Message - 
From: "Eric Scace" 
To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" 
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 5:50 AM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Time math libraries


   I should clarify my intended application for “time math”.

   My company is deep in development of a system that, in part, records events 
on a blockchain. For various reasons a precise and accurate representation of 
time of the event can be important. How precise and accurate depends on the 
application. The first applications need millisecond precision and tens of 
millisecond accuracy — not a huge demand by TimeNut standards, but not to be 
neglected. Leap seconds (and the differing contortions being used by various 
organizations to evade implementation of leap seconds) should not be ignored.

   The blockchain runs as a generic event-recording ledger utility supporting 
many applications. Over time, we will need to get more precise and accurate on 
time.

   To be general, we take the following approach:
Timestamp (and, often, geolocation) are acquired at the point of measurement 
for the data set. This is treated as the opinion of the collecting device. We 
record meta-data about the collecting device. For some applications the 
meta-data includes information as to how the device formed its opinion of time.
The application submits the event to the ledger service’s API for recording.
The API server(s) timestamp the client’s request to record to the ledger. This 
timestamp is relatively important because it is the declaration of the ledger, 
an immutable reference of the sequence of events, upon which other systems will 
rely in future.

   The present scheme is to use TAI as the timescale for all events recorded to 
the ledger. Some of the implications:
Collecting device timestamps may need to be convertible to TAI.
This task can be a mess, because the sources of time opinions may be vast; 
e.g., cell phones, AWS, Google, MS Azure, etc. We work around this by capturing 
meta-data about the device’s timescale and source. This allows retrospective 
consideration of the devices’ time opinion relative to TAI when it is important 
for the downstream data consumer.
Independent systems participating in the blockchain (e.g., as API server, or as 
consensus-forming systems) should have consistent opinions of TAI.
Ledger timestamps (in TAI) need to be converted to the data consumer’s desired 
time scale.
Here’s another instance of the need for a set of time math utilities.

   I realize this description also opens a Pandora’s box that involves 
distribution of time issues. But, for the purposes of this thread, I wanted to 
focus on the TAI-to-other-timescales conversion utility question.

   If good timescale conversion utilities exist, we would use them.

   If good timescale conversion utilities do not exist, then maybe we’ll 
contribute one to the open software space.

— Eric

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Re: [time-nuts] Time math libraries

2016-12-13 Thread Eric Scace
   I should clarify my intended application for “time math”.

   My company is deep in development of a system that, in part, records events 
on a blockchain. For various reasons a precise and accurate representation of 
time of the event can be important. How precise and accurate depends on the 
application. The first applications need millisecond precision and tens of 
millisecond accuracy — not a huge demand by TimeNut standards, but not to be 
neglected. Leap seconds (and the differing contortions being used by various 
organizations to evade implementation of leap seconds) should not be ignored.

   The blockchain runs as a generic event-recording ledger utility supporting 
many applications. Over time, we will need to get more precise and accurate on 
time.

   To be general, we take the following approach:
Timestamp (and, often, geolocation) are acquired at the point of measurement 
for the data set. This is treated as the opinion of the collecting device. We 
record meta-data about the collecting device. For some applications the 
meta-data includes information as to how the device formed its opinion of time.
The application submits the event to the ledger service’s API for recording.
The API server(s) timestamp the client’s request to record to the ledger. This 
timestamp is relatively important because it is the declaration of the ledger, 
an immutable reference of the sequence of events, upon which other systems will 
rely in future.

   The present scheme is to use TAI as the timescale for all events recorded to 
the ledger. Some of the implications:
Collecting device timestamps may need to be convertible to TAI.
This task can be a mess, because the sources of time opinions may be vast; 
e.g., cell phones, AWS, Google, MS Azure, etc. We work around this by capturing 
meta-data about the device’s timescale and source. This allows retrospective 
consideration of the devices’ time opinion relative to TAI when it is important 
for the downstream data consumer.
Independent systems participating in the blockchain (e.g., as API server, or as 
consensus-forming systems) should have consistent opinions of TAI.
Ledger timestamps (in TAI) need to be converted to the data consumer’s desired 
time scale.
Here’s another instance of the need for a set of time math utilities.

   I realize this description also opens a Pandora’s box that involves 
distribution of time issues. But, for the purposes of this thread, I wanted to 
focus on the TAI-to-other-timescales conversion utility question.

   If good timescale conversion utilities exist, we would use them.

   If good timescale conversion utilities do not exist, then maybe we’ll 
contribute one to the open software space.

— Eric
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Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Ver 5 Problem - full screen mode

2016-12-13 Thread Bill Riches
Took a while but found out that /vs /fu worked for me.  Slick!

Bill, WA2DVU

-Original Message-
From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Mark Sims
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 1:06 AM
To: time-nuts@febo.com
Subject: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Ver 5 Problem - full screen mode

Ahhh, full screen mode... the demon mode from hell.  On most modern systems 
with large monitors it crashed the program.  It uses DirectDraw and if your 
DirectDraw implementation does not handle your monitor size, bye bye Heather.  
That means full screen mode (or clicking the MAXIMIZE button or pressing F11 
crashes Heather unless your monitor or graphics driver was a standard VGA era 
screen res like 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, or 1280x1024). Only those four 
monitor widths allow full screen mode.  Monitor height is not check for.

Because pressing the MAXIMIZE button was quite easy to do accidentally,  full 
screen mode is disabled by default (but F11 can't be disabled).  If your 
monitor / graphics driver is one of the magic sizes you can enable full screen 
mode with the new /fu command.  For instance for a 1024x768 screen try:
   /fu /vm

If you have a larger monitor and can configure your display driver for one of 
the magic sizes, that works.

The /f command now brings up Heather in a windowed mode sized to fill (most of) 
the screen.  You can also do that with $f from the keyboard.

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Re: [time-nuts] LH "Life" readout

2016-12-13 Thread Bill Riches
I have another lucent in the shop and when I get back I will stick a laptop on 
it and see if that shows the correct life.  No big thing - just wondering if I 
was doing something wrong.

-Original Message-
From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Mark Sims
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 12:42 AM
To: time-nuts@febo.com
Subject: [time-nuts] LH "Life" readout

Did you wait at least three hours for it to change?  it's working fine on mine. 
It has X98_4-A firmware.

---

> Lucent ref0 box working fine with LH.

Question - Life readout on LH reads 17832 hours and does not advance.  Life 
readout on Z3811.exe program reads 5943 hours and advances.

Is the life readout available for the Lucent box?
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Re: [time-nuts] LH "Life" readout

2016-12-13 Thread Bill Riches
Ran overnight - life has advanced to 17844. Will be away for 3 days and check 
it when I return.

Bill

-Original Message-
From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Mark Sims
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 12:42 AM
To: time-nuts@febo.com
Subject: [time-nuts] LH "Life" readout

Did you wait at least three hours for it to change?  it's working fine on mine. 
It has X98_4-A firmware.

---

> Lucent ref0 box working fine with LH.

Question - Life readout on LH reads 17832 hours and does not advance.  Life 
readout on Z3811.exe program reads 5943 hours and advances.

Is the life readout available for the Lucent box?
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[time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available - date formats

2016-12-13 Thread Mark Sims
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 the -mm-dd format.  It was in there at one time, but got 
lost somewhere along the way...

Why can't the world standardize of the Mayan long count?  Heather can do that 
right now.
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Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Ver 5 Problem

2016-12-13 Thread Richard W. Solomon
I think I found the answer. It seems that two shortcuts found there way 
onto the screen. I just picked the wrong one.

HOWEVER, how do I get it to open in Full Screen Mode ? I tried adding the 
/f command at the end, but it still opens in small screen mode /

The O/S is Windows XP.

Tnx, Dick, W1KSZ

-Original Message-
From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Richard W. 
Solomon
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2016 12:45 PM
To: time-nuts@febo.com
Subject: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Ver 5 Problem

I installed LH Ver 5 and when I try to open it I get an error message:

 

ke5fx.dyndns.org not found (code 11004)

 

Was I supposed to install it in the old LH Folder ?

 

Thanks, Dick, W1KSZ

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Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-13 Thread David J Taylor

Mark,

While I have not (yet) used Lady Heather, I plan on doing so as soon as I 
can
get my GPSDO. However, I do have a feature suggestion. You have an option 
that

allows dates to be expressions in the European format DD-MM- vs. the US
format of MM-DD-. What about an option to express dates in ISO standard
format: -MM-DD. Personally, that is the only date format that I use and 
it

has the advantage of being easily sorted. That may make processing collected
data easier.

Michael
===

Michael,

I agree with your sentiments.

I'm using the Windows version, which appears to use the dd-mmm- format, 
quite acceptable to me as European.


For file names I use the format you suggest, for the same reasons: 
-mm-dd


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Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Version 5 is now available

2016-12-13 Thread timenut
Mark,

While I have not (yet) used Lady Heather, I plan on doing so as soon as I can
get my GPSDO. However, I do have a feature suggestion. You have an option that
allows dates to be expressions in the European format DD-MM- vs. the US
format of MM-DD-. What about an option to express dates in ISO standard
format: -MM-DD. Personally, that is the only date format that I use and it
has the advantage of being easily sorted. That may make processing collected
data easier.

Michael

> Lady Heather version 5.0 is now available for download from:
>http://www.ke5fx.com/heather/readme.htm

> Many thanks to John Miles for hosting the distribution and his work on the
> Windows installer, PDF documentation file, readme file, and bring an 
> all-around good guy.

> Heather now has some proper user documentation.  Check the heather.pdf file
> and/or the comments in the first 3500+ lines of the heather.cpp file. 
> Heather can be compiled for Linux (including the Raspberry Pi) and macOS. 
> Download the heatherx11.zip file and check the readme.txt file for 
> compilation instructions.

> There are MANY new features in Heather.  One of the main ones is support
> for many new receiver types.  When Heather is started it defaults to
> attempting to automatically determine the receiver type.   You can bypass
> this and force the receiver type using the new "/rx..." command line
> options.  Some receiver types cannot be auto-detected.  Also many receivers
> power up speaking NMEA and you can enable their native binary language using
> the /rx commands.  Native binary mode gives better information and allows
> controlling the receiver configuration and settings.

> Currently-supported receivers include: 
> Trimble Thunderbolt and Thunderbolt-E
> Acron Zeit WWVB receiver
> UCCM - Trimble / Symmetricom GPSDOs
> DATUM STARLOC II GPSDO
> NEC GPSDO (STAR-4 compatible)
> GPSD interface
> Jupiter-T (aka Zodiac)
> Lucent KS24361 REF0/Z3811A (19200:8:N:1)
> Motorola binary format
> Generic NMEA receiver
> Trimble Resolution T family with odd parity
> Sirf binary
> Generic Trimble TSIP binary
> Ublox UBX binary
> Venus mixed binary / NMEA
> Nortel SCPI-compatible GPSDOs (NTWB, NTPX, etc.)
> Z3801A and compatible SCPI GPSDOs
> HP 5-style SCPI
> Oscilloquartz STAR-4 (via the management interface)
> NVS binary
> PC system clock (no receiver)

> After installing Heather, you should edit the heather.cfg file (or the
> PROPERTIES setting for the desktop icon) for your desired configuration. 
> Everybody should change the "/tz" option for their time zone... it comes set
> up for the US central time zone.  International uses should add a "/b..."
> command to set their daylight savings time information.   On Windows, you
> can press the "n" key and that will bring up NOTEPAD to edit the file.  For
> the changes to take effect you will need to re-start Heather (or do a "r 
> heather.cfg" keyboard command).



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