From: Jeffrey Pawlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] GPS antenna failure
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 14:08:54 -0800 (PST)
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> You have re-discovered the meaning of the word debug.
Well yes. ;O)
> On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Magnus Danielson wrote:
> > That besides f
You have re-discovered the meaning of the word debug.
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Magnus Danielson wrote:
> That besides finding a spider in the lower-cap, it had eaten half
> the o-ring on the outside and near the contact we also found its pray wound
> in.
You did not mention the brand or model of th
Dear fellow time-nuts,
Today the little mystery of why we lost the GPS signal at work finally
explained itself. Hooking up my Z3801 instead of our normal house-clock did not
give any better result. So, today I finally said the antenna goes down for
inspection. I had been given the hint that it mig
Collins once made a sun tracker. It was a microwave antenna servoed to
equipment that followed a sun-specific noise spectrum. It allowed the
Navy to sight the sun in any weather, for navigation.
As a fan of servomechanisms, has anyone else heard of this? If I still
have the article and picture, it
Have a book somewhere (in a box - just moved!) called Astronomy for the PC
by Peter Duffett-Smith. Has loads of routines in it. Will dig it out.
Rob Kimberley
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Behalf Of Lester Veenstra
Sent: 06 February 2006 18:31
To
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Les
M/K1YCM
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Neil Garfinkel
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 12:09 PM
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Subject: Sun tracking program
Does anyone have a program/algorithm to track the sun. If so please let me
know. THANKS
Hi:
Sorry for the bad links, here are good ones:
Today's plot = http://www.pacificsites.com/~brooke/pdf/sn1013_850_Drift2.pdf
s/n 1227 29 Apr 2005 plot =
http://www.pacificsites.com/~brooke/pdf/Cs_Drift0429.pdf
Brooke
Brooke Clarke wrote:
>Hi:
>
>A year ago I took apart the FTS4060 that was DO
Hi:
A year ago I took apart the FTS4060 that was DOA (s/n 1013) because of
rough shipping and used it to figure out most of the interconnect
wiring. A few months ago I put it back together with the thought of
selling it as a parts unit. But first powered it up and found that it
now locked an
