Re: [time-nuts] HP 8642a Fan Fixed

2006-11-04 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
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... ___ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com

[time-nuts] Re Certified Time Nut Certificate

2006-11-04 Thread Doug Millar
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

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

2006-11-04 Thread Jack Hudler
Scan one at RBG 600 DPI or better; I wee what I can do. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug Millar Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 9:35 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: [time-nuts] Re Certified Time

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

2006-11-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
You really need to get Borgmans permission to include the Zits nanosecond strip on the certificate. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can

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

2006-11-04 Thread Bill Janssen
Doug Millar wrote: 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

Re: [time-nuts] HP 8642a Fan Fixed

2006-11-04 Thread Bill Janssen
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 you're traceable to NIST... Well I have been to NIST in Boulder so maybe I am certifiable

[time-nuts] HP-8642A

2006-11-04 Thread Colin Bradley
Doug you might check http://cp.literature.agilent.com/litweb/pdf/08642-90224.pdf for a copy of the operating and calibration manual for the 8642A. There are probably some other sources of free manuals on the internet. I have had problems with the various Agilent servers of late, so be patient

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

2006-11-04 Thread tom
whats this lesser standard in the gps and rubidium stuff. i have a hp 117a tracking receiver that prints days with straight lines from my rubidium osc. also three hp 59309a clocks that say i have the correct time for weeks running from the standard. hope that makes me at least in the middle

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

2006-11-04 Thread Bill Hawkins
If your 117A, listening to WWVB, draws straight lines then something is wrong with it. You should see a change between day and night. Ah, unless you live near Fort Collins, CO. Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of tom Sent:

Re: [time-nuts] Re Certified Time Nut Certificate, hp 117A, WWVB

2006-11-04 Thread Tom Van Baak
If your 117A, listening to WWVB, draws straight lines then something is wrong with it. You should see a change between day and night. Ah, unless you live near Fort Collins, CO. Bill Hawkins A flat line isn't always good news. There should be a nice little phase bumps every hour. Do your

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

2006-11-04 Thread David Forbes
At 2:43 PM -0600 11/4/06, tom wrote: whats this lesser standard in the gps and rubidium stuff. i have a hp 117a tracking receiver that prints days with straight lines from my rubidium osc. also three hp 59309a clocks that say i have the correct time for weeks running from the standard. hope that

[time-nuts] Announcing the TAPR Clock-Block Clock Synthesizer

2006-11-04 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Sorry for the advertisement, but I thought this would be of particular interest to the folks on these lists. Some time ago I mentioned that I was working on a clock synthesizer board that could be used (among other things) to get much better timekeeping for applications like NTP. The idea is to

Re: [time-nuts] Re Certified Time Nut Certificate, hp 117A, WWVB

2006-11-04 Thread Bill Hawkins
Tom, tf.nist.gov doesn't seem to exist. Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Van Baak Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 7:21 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Re Certified

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

2006-11-04 Thread Bill Hawkins
Ah, yes, I have one of those FAA tuning fork standards . Never occurred to me to mount it in a three dimensional gimbal in order to discipline it to GPS. Might wear out the mechanism, though, as it attempts to track the ever-shifting GPS reception. Regards, Bill Hawkins (My wife thinks I'm

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

2006-11-04 Thread Neon John
On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 22:24:36 -0500, Daun Yeagley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gee, maybe some of you need to get a Bulova Accutron. I think that is one of the things that got me started on the time-nut wagon back in the sixties. My wife bought me one for our first Christmas together back in 1967.