Re: [time-nuts] GPS orthodontics: sawteeth hangingbridges-theeffect of time averaging

2006-12-23 Thread Ulrich Bangert
Tom, as I did say in my first sentence I would have been glad to make measurements against a H2 Maser or a Cesium. Unfortunately I don't own one of them. But then let us consider what is second best: A xtal oscillator alone or a Rb alone won't do the job because up from a certain Tau we would

Re: [time-nuts] GPS orthodontics: sawteeth hanging bridges-theeffect of time averaging

2006-12-23 Thread Ulrich Bangert
Jack, the good thing about it is: 99.9 % of the people that i invite to drink an Laphroaig with me believe that i am going to poisen them and state that they will never in their life take a second sip of it. That helps keeping my inventory of Laphroaig entirely for me alone! Best regards and a

Re: [time-nuts] Picket fence technique

2006-12-23 Thread Magnus Danielson
From: Dr Bruce Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [time-nuts] Picket fence technique Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 18:07:43 +1300 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bruce, The Question is has anyone considered using this technique? I have not seen it in use for any commercial products. In fact, few of

[time-nuts] Weird HP 5334B problem

2006-12-23 Thread Didier Juges
My HP 5334B has been doing the following since I got it off eBay this summer. It's not a major problem, but it is irritating and I would like to fix it, but I don't know where to start... At power up, when being fed two signals for TIC measurements, the instrument passes self test without

Re: [time-nuts] Picket fence technique

2006-12-23 Thread Peter Vince
Thus a simple inexpensive single chip divider such as 74HC4017 Johnson counter may be used for oscillator frequencies of up to 20MHz or so. As a slight aside, Google gave me a page with an excellent description of Johnson counters: http://www.vias.org/feee/shiftreg_07.html which also

Re: [time-nuts] Weird HP 5334B problem

2006-12-23 Thread Jack Hudler
Your manual 2934 covers the 2804 series and the 2804 definitely contains fixes made in the 2704. Otherwise it would state that the 2804 requires this change. If you use a manual that cover everything up to an including 2804, then you wouldn't know if any later fixes might have solve an issue

Re: [time-nuts] Weird HP 5334B problem

2006-12-23 Thread Didier Juges
Thank you Jack, it makes sense, but I am not aware of the logic used by HP for serial numbers. I know it's been covered extensively on the hp_agilent newsgroup, I just don't recall. Thanks anyway and Merry Christmas to you and all time-nuts. Didier KO4BB Jack Hudler wrote: Your manual 2934

[time-nuts] Some long-term data

2006-12-23 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Hi -- I'm running an experiment with my 3 atomic standards (2 HP 5061A and 1 HP 5065A) versus GPS via an M12+ (no sawtooth correction). I now have 148 days of data, and hope to keep the experiment running out to 180 days. For the fun of it this morning I ran all-tau analyses of all three

Re: [time-nuts] Some long-term data

2006-12-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Ackermann N8UR writes: I'm running an experiment with my 3 atomic standards (2 HP 5061A and 1 HP 5065A) versus GPS via an M12+ (no sawtooth correction). I now have 148 days of data, and hope to keep the experiment running out to 180 days. 180 days is a bad

Re: [time-nuts] Some long-term data

2006-12-23 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Poul-Henning Kamp said the following on 12/23/2006 05:11 PM: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Ackermann N8UR writes: I'm running an experiment with my 3 atomic standards (2 HP 5061A and 1 HP 5065A) versus GPS via an M12+ (no sawtooth correction). I now have 148 days of data, and hope to

Re: [time-nuts] Some long-term data

2006-12-23 Thread Magnus Danielson
From: Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Some long-term data Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 22:11:20 + Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Ackermann N8UR writes: I'm running an experiment with my 3 atomic standards (2 HP 5061A and 1 HP

Re: [time-nuts] Some long-term data

2006-12-23 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Magnus Danielson said the following on 12/23/2006 05:22 PM: Such as temperature and humidity. One of the Cesiums seemed to have a rather large frequency offset. Did you drift-compensate your ADEV measures or not? No, I ran the ADEV in Stable32 without removing drift. My understanding is that

[time-nuts] Effects of filter delay

2006-12-23 Thread Peter Vince
Please forgive what is probably a naive question from this newbie, but a loop filter has considerable delay (half the number of samples for a typical(?) symmetrical FIR or block-averaging filter). This must surely limit the usefulness of very long averaging times? And perhaps it could

Re: [time-nuts] GPS orthodontics: time averaging theory

2006-12-23 Thread Dr Bruce Griffiths
Brooks Shera wrote: - Original Message - From: Dr Bruce Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brooks Shera [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 20:52 Subject: Re: [time-nuts] GPS orthodontics: time averaging theory Brooks Shera wrote: - Original Message - From:

Re: [time-nuts] Effects of filter delay

2006-12-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Vince writes: Please forgive what is probably a naive question from this newbie, but a loop filter has considerable delay (half the number of samples for a typical(?) symmetrical FIR or block-averaging filter). One interesting approach here is to use a

Re: [time-nuts] Some long-term data

2006-12-23 Thread Magnus Danielson
From: John Ackermann N8UR [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Some long-term data Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:53:50 -0500 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi John! Magnus Danielson said the following on 12/23/2006 05:22 PM: Such as temperature and humidity. One of the Cesiums seemed to

Re: [time-nuts] Picket fence technique

2006-12-23 Thread Dr Bruce Griffiths
Didier Juges wrote: Dr Bruce Griffiths wrote: Using a GPS timing receiver to quantify the long term stability of an oscillator whose frequency is not a harmonic of 1Hz, then the technique of dividing the oscillator frequency down to 1Hz and logging the time delay between the GPS

Re: [time-nuts] Effects of filter delay

2006-12-23 Thread Dr Bruce Griffiths
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 12/23/2006 15:17:33 Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The FIR filter used in some GPSDOCXOs is not the optimum prefilter for the control loop. An exponential averaging (IIR) filter is better. However an FIR filter has the

Re: [time-nuts] GPS orthodontics: time averaging theory

2006-12-23 Thread Dr Bruce Griffiths
Brooks The pitfalls Dave mentions are: PARTIAL PULSE BIAS: very narrow gated clock pulses are not counted, thereby introducing a bias as computed in his eq(1). Note that all the parameters on the right side of eq(1) are constant, thus the bias is constant. A constant bias is important