Re: [ntp:questions] Can the line audio out of HF radio be used to sync ntp. Trying to get a cheap ($) radio method.

2009-05-02 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Steve , On Fri, 1 May 2009, Steve Kostecke wrote: On 2009-05-01, n...@blacklist.anitech-systems wrote: Steve Kostecke wrote: Apparently only the USB and PC versions of the older GPS-18 model are still available. All three version of the newer GPS-18x model are available.

Re: [ntp:questions] Gretchen - in regard to CertifiedTime it never died...

2009-05-02 Thread Todd Glassey CISM CIFI
Gretchen Baxter wrote: thanx! in that case, this is good news for everyone in the timing community. We think so - and as CertifiedTime's original founder I am overjoyed to turn CertifiedTime's services back online. The intent when I built CertifiedTime Inc originally was to build a uniform

Re: [ntp:questions] Can the line audio out of HF radio be used to sync ntp. Trying to get a cheap ($) radio method.

2009-05-02 Thread Todd Glassey CISM CIFI
Richard B. Gilbert wrote: David J Taylor wrote: Unruh wrote: Nathaniel Homier n...@universal-mechanism.org writes: Hello. I would like to know if one can use the line audio out of any old portable shortwave radio tuned to a time signal and fed via a line audio

Re: [ntp:questions] Gretchen - in regard to CertifiedTime it never died...

2009-05-02 Thread Todd Glassey CISM CIFI
Gretchen Baxter wrote: good news for people who like good news. so when can we expect actual solutions from certichron? Certichron has been serving secured NTP quietly for two years now. We offer a new NTP/PPP service which eliminates the issues with the lack of security the Internet poses.

Re: [ntp:questions] How bad is USB?

2009-05-02 Thread Todd Glassey CISM CIFI
Richard B. Gilbert wrote: David J Taylor wrote: Garrett Wollman wrote: In article k9wdns4y5piuymfunz2dnuvz_t2dn...@giganews.com, Richard B. Gilbert rgilber...@comcast.net wrote: USB is nearly useless for NTP! USB has latencies sufficiently large and variable to render it

Re: [ntp:questions] Can the line audio out of HF radio be used to sync ntp. Trying to get a cheap ($) radio method.

2009-05-02 Thread David J Taylor
David Lord wrote: [] I've had $60 but not accept my cc and require $35 bank transfer fee or $60+ +$75 delivery and others don't export so I gave up. DL David, I'm advised that RS Components stock this at GBP 69 + VAT + delivery. A search of their Web site reveals the GPS 18x range:

Re: [ntp:questions] Can the line audio out of HF radio be used to sync ntp. Trying to get a cheap ($) radio method.

2009-05-02 Thread David Lord
David J Taylor wrote: David Lord wrote: [] I've had $60 but not accept my cc and require $35 bank transfer fee or $60+ +$75 delivery and others don't export so I gave up. DL David, I'm advised that RS Components stock this at GBP 69 + VAT + delivery. A search of their Web site

Re: [ntp:questions] Can the line audio out of HF radio be used to sync ntp. Trying to get a cheap ($) radio method.

2009-05-02 Thread David J Taylor
David Lord wrote: [] cheers Both those were listed on garmin site as uk suppliers but the RS price that came up was almost 170 quid and I couldn't locate the GPS-18x LVC on the gpsw site. I'll check both again anyway in case my eyesight was playing up. GPS Warehouse have them in stock. I

Re: [ntp:questions] Can the line audio out of HF radio be used to sync ntp. Trying to get a cheap ($) radio method.

2009-05-02 Thread David Lord
David J Taylor wrote: David Lord wrote: [] cheers Both those were listed on garmin site as uk suppliers but the RS price that came up was almost 170 quid and I couldn't locate the GPS-18x LVC on the gpsw site. I'll check both again anyway in case my eyesight was playing up. GPS

Re: [ntp:questions] Can the line audio out of HF radio be used to sync ntp. Trying to get a cheap ($) radio method.

2009-05-02 Thread David J Taylor
David Lord wrote: [] I've ntp logs going back many years and for me chrony was better suited to handling temperature changes but was originally used because of intermittent dialup connection. Yes, having a history of expected variations due to temperature chnages, or perhaps even using the

Re: [ntp:questions] Gretchen - in regard to CertifiedTime it never died...

2009-05-02 Thread Danny Mayer
Todd Glassey CISM CIFI wrote: Gretchen Baxter wrote: thanx! in that case, this is good news for everyone in the timing community. We think so - and as CertifiedTime's original founder I am overjoyed to turn CertifiedTime's services back online. The intent when I built CertifiedTime Inc

Re: [ntp:questions] PPS from an external OCXO source. Correcting drift is it possible?

2009-05-02 Thread Nero Imhard
Kat wrote: To try and maintain better accuracy on the ntp server that feeds my small network and increase the maxtime for server polling, I thought that I would dig into my scrap box and build a PPS with a home built OCXO as a spare time project. It seems that you are doing things the

Re: [ntp:questions] Gretchen - in regard to CertifiedTime it never died...

2009-05-02 Thread Danny Mayer
Todd Glassey CISM CIFI wrote: Danny Mayer wrote: Todd Glassey CISM CIFI wrote: Gretchen Baxter wrote: thanx! in that case, this is good news for everyone in the timing community. We think so - and as CertifiedTime's original founder I am overjoyed to turn CertifiedTime's

Re: [ntp:questions] PPS from an external OCXO source. Correcting drift is it possible?

2009-05-02 Thread Kat
Nero Imhard wrote: Since you seem to build stuff yourself, you could also regulate the temperature of your computer's timing crystal. Should work rather well. Great minds think alike :) and this was my first thought too - I tried this approach, but space constraints and less than ideal PC