Re: [Flexradio] ARRL FMT: one more win for the SDR-1000

2006-01-19 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Jim Lux wrote: At 05:58 AM 1/19/2006, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: Jim Lux wrote: Of course... the SDR1000 does have an advantage because it's a very simple receiver with fewer stages to screw things up. While the SDR-1000 can do a credible job on its own, I just want to reinforce that anyo

Re: [Flexradio] ARRL FMT: one more win for the SDR-1000

2006-01-19 Thread Jim Lux
At 05:58 AM 1/19/2006, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: Jim Lux wrote: Of course... the SDR1000 does have an advantage because it's a very simple receiver with fewer stages to screw things up. While the SDR-1000 can do a credible job on its own, I just want to reinforce that anyone with a signal g

Re: [Flexradio] ARRL FMT: one more win for the SDR-1000

2006-01-19 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Jim Lux wrote: Of course... the SDR1000 does have an advantage because it's a very simple receiver with fewer stages to screw things up. While the SDR-1000 can do a credible job on its own, I just want to reinforce that anyone with a signal generator that's locked to a decent reference, and

Re: [Flexradio] ARRL FMT: one more win for the SDR-1000

2006-01-19 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Eric Ellison wrote: Folks Just autta send this whole message thread to ARRL. It really is not that much fun if the equipment you have evolved at great cost and enjoyment, is FOO_BAR to the 'standard' being transmitted! Jim, can't you convince JPL folks to send this test? It more or less is a go

Re: [Flexradio] ARRL FMT: one more win for the SDR-1000

2006-01-18 Thread Jim Lux
At 06:44 PM 1/18/2006, Eric Ellison wrote: Folks Just autta send this whole message thread to ARRL. It really is not that much fun if the equipment you have evolved at great cost and enjoyment, is FOO_BAR to the 'standard' being transmitted! Jim, can't you convince JPL folks to send this test?

Re: [Flexradio] ARRL FMT: one more win for the SDR-1000

2006-01-18 Thread Jim Lux
At 06:10 PM 1/18/2006, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: Jim Lux said the following on 01/18/2006 07:36 PM: > At 04:24 PM 1/18/2006, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: > As I recall, you can measure the phase of a tone with an uncertainty of > 1/sqrt(T * CNR), where T is the integration time, and CNR is the ca

Re: [Flexradio] ARRL FMT: one more win for the SDR-1000

2006-01-18 Thread Eric Ellison
N8UR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 9:11 PM To: Jim Lux Cc: Eric Ellison; 'Joe - AB1DO'; FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Flexradio] ARRL FMT: one more win for the SDR-1000 Jim Lux said the following on 01/18/2006 07:36 PM: > At 0

Re: [Flexradio] ARRL FMT: one more win for the SDR-1000

2006-01-18 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Jim Lux said the following on 01/18/2006 07:36 PM: > At 04:24 PM 1/18/2006, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: > >> Eric Ellison said the following on 01/18/2006 07:01 PM: >> >> > Anybody ever wonder if folks out here have even better equipment >> than ARRL >> > for generating the test? >> > >> > >> > >>

Re: [Flexradio] ARRL FMT: one more win for the SDR-1000

2006-01-18 Thread Bill Tracey
I missed the '05 FMT, had put the date down on my calendar but forgot to adjust for UTC so was off by a day this year and missed it. I did run the FMT in '03 and '04 calibrating a TS 2000 to WWV and CHU and using Spectrum Lab for the analysis. Scored in the .01 to .04 ppm range - respectable

Re: [Flexradio] ARRL FMT: one more win for the SDR-1000

2006-01-18 Thread Jim Lux
At 04:24 PM 1/18/2006, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: Eric Ellison said the following on 01/18/2006 07:01 PM: > Anybody ever wonder if folks out here have even better equipment than ARRL > for generating the test? > > > > Sort of would be fun for folks like yourself, Tom, JPL?, John or others, > wit

Re: [Flexradio] ARRL FMT: one more win for the SDR-1000

2006-01-18 Thread Jim Lux
At 04:01 PM 1/18/2006, you wrote: Jim   You sure know how to ‘rain on the parade’ LOL! Naaah.. I think Jan got lucky and happened to measure when the propagation was just right.  And he corrected me, the computer was an old PC his wife used to use.   Congrats Jan!   I talked with Bill – KD5TFD

Re: [Flexradio] ARRL FMT: one more win for the SDR-1000

2006-01-18 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Eric Ellison said the following on 01/18/2006 07:01 PM: > Anybody ever wonder if folks out here have even better equipment than ARRL > for generating the test? > > > > Sort of would be fun for folks like yourself, Tom, JPL?, John or others, > with access to millions of dollars in equipment to

Re: [Flexradio] ARRL FMT: one more win for the SDR-1000

2006-01-18 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Eric Ellison said the following on 01/18/2006 06:40 PM: > Spent some enjoyable time on John Ackerman's website today, looking at his > time stuff and measurement set up. I wonder if he used the SDR-1000 with his > laboratory? We used the SDR-1000 as a monitor receiver since the technique we were

Re: [Flexradio] ARRL FMT: one more win for the SDR-1000

2006-01-18 Thread Eric Ellison
: Joe - AB1DO; FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Flexradio] ARRL FMT: one more win for the SDR-1000   At 05:04 PM 1/18/2006, Joe - AB1DO wrote: Hi all,   ARRL held its Frequency Measurement Test on November 17 at 0245 UTC. The test involved transmitting a single

Re: [Flexradio] ARRL FMT: one more win for the SDR-1000

2006-01-18 Thread Eric Ellison
dnesday, January 18, 2006 8:04 PM To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] ARRL FMT: one more win for the SDR-1000   Hi all,   ARRL held its Frequency Measurement Test on November 17 at 0245 UTC. The test involved transmitting a single tone in SSB at a predetermined carrie

Re: [Flexradio] ARRL FMT: one more win for the SDR-1000

2006-01-18 Thread Jim Lux
At 05:04 PM 1/18/2006, Joe - AB1DO wrote: Hi all,   ARRL held its Frequency Measurement Test on November 17 at 0245 UTC. The test involved transmitting a single tone in SSB at a predetermined carrier frequency. The objective of the test was to figure out the exact frequency of the tone W1AW was

[Flexradio] ARRL FMT: one more win for the SDR-1000

2006-01-18 Thread Joe - AB1DO
Hi all,   ARRL held its Frequency Measurement Test on November 17 at 0245 UTC. The test involved transmitting a single tone in SSB at a predetermined carrier frequency. The objective of the test was to figure out the exact frequency of the tone W1AW was transmitting.   I decided to give it a