Re: [time-nuts] Blackout in Europe and power line frequency jump

2006-11-09 Thread Marco
At 14.33 09/11/2006, Rusty wrote: Thanks for sending this. Those graphs were very interesting. I've certainly never seen a frequency deviation of that magnitude or duration before! Same here, it has been an absolute exception. Your report, though, inspires me to look into more reliable and

Re: [time-nuts] Blackout in Europe and power line frequency jump

2006-11-09 Thread Hal Murray
http://www.leapsecond.com/pages/mains/ Fun read. Thanks. Is a wall clock accurate to 5 seconds a day? a week? a month? The power industry has standards for all this, I'm sure ... An old tale. Palo Alto runs its own local electrical distribution system. A friend of a friend called them up

Re: [time-nuts] Blackout in Europe and power line frequency jump

2006-11-09 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hal Murr ay writes: I occasionally day-dream of setting up something so I can monitor the line voltage, frequency, current, whatever... but I've never gotten off the ground. apart from decent resolution on frequency, the spanish company Circutor makes power meters

Re: [time-nuts] Blackout in Europe and power line frequency jump

2006-11-09 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marco writes: At 14.33 09/11/2006, Rusty wrote: Thanks for sending this. Those graphs were very interesting. I've certainly never seen a frequency deviation of that magnitude or duration before! Same here, it has been an absolute exception. The reason you don't see

Re: [time-nuts] Blackout in Europe and power line frequency jump

2006-11-09 Thread Normand Martel
--- Tom Van Baak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your report, though, inspires me to look into more reliable and precise ways to measure the frequency of one's local grid. I had not actually considered monitoring electric fields off the air before, but it seems like this might be fairly

[time-nuts] Canada's CHU Time service Short Wave Stations...

2006-11-09 Thread Bert
Hi Everyone, You may or may not be aware, but Canada's CHU Time Short Wave service needs to stop operating, change frequencies, and/or re-licence. The station operator, the National Research Council is basically looking for reasons to keep the stations alive and demonstrate to the

[time-nuts] FEI-5680A Rubidium

2006-11-09 Thread Brian Kirby
In the past we have been looking for information on programming the FEI-5680A rubidium. On Ebay is a rubidium and they person states he can program the unit, and from the photo's , he has. Rex, check it out !

[time-nuts] Oncore VP for sale

2006-11-09 Thread Richard H McCorkle
There are Motorola Oncore VP GPS receivers currently for sale on e-bay (Search Oncore VP) in case someone on the list is looking for a spare GPS for their Z3801A. The price looks reasonable for these vintage GPS receivers. (The 8-channel VP works in the Z3801A as it can emulate the original

Re: [time-nuts] FEI-5680A Rubidium

2006-11-09 Thread Rex
On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:58:20 -0600, Brian Kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the past we have been looking for information on programming the FEI-5680A rubidium. On Ebay is a rubidium and they person states he can program the unit, and from the photo's , he has. Rex, check it out !