Re: [time-nuts] TIC resolution impact on GPSDO's performance

2006-12-26 Thread David I. Emery
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 04:14:45PM -0600, Didier Juges wrote: > When reading the data sheet for the Thunderbolt, and reading all the > pitfalls associated with non-integrated GPSDO designs using stand alone > GPS receivers, such as sawtooth correction and quantization noise, it > seems like the

Re: [time-nuts] Ovenaire 10 Mhz oscillator looking for info

2006-12-26 Thread Bill Hawkins
Ovenaire? Isn't that a remarkable name for someone making oscillators? I see that Nordic Ware also makes an Ovenaire product that turns any baking oven into a convection oven. Stranger things have happened. In the early days of the space program, elaborate wiring harnesses were made on 4x8 sheets

Re: [time-nuts] RFTG-m-XO disassembly photos

2006-12-26 Thread Bill Hawkins
John, Many thanks for posting the photos. Now I know that there are no card edge connectors and no need to find a card rack. The connectors are not all that difficult to trace. The arrow pointing to +24 is a help. What's all this about 15 MHz out? Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From:

Re: [time-nuts] TIC resolution impact on GPSDO's performance

2006-12-26 Thread Dr Bruce Griffiths
Magnus Amended to substitute plesiochronous and plesiochronism for the incorrect words I used previously. As the frequency of the clock which controls the timing of the receiver PPS pulse output drifts and approaches plesiochronism with the "true" frequency of the PPS signal, the rate of chang

Re: [time-nuts] Ovenaire 10 Mhz oscillator looking for info

2006-12-26 Thread David Forbes
At 12:38 PM -0800 12/26/06, Cornell wrote: >Looking for info, datasheet, or whatever > >Ovenaire-Audio-Carpenter (OAC) Model 84-14 10 Mhz oscillator, s/n 26816-2. >This is a 2" x 2" x 3.25" sealed unit which weighs 11.0 ounces. > >The top has two screws marked Freq Adj coarse and fine, and one

Re: [time-nuts] TIC resolution impact on GPSDO's performance

2006-12-26 Thread Magnus Danielson
From: Dr Bruce Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] TIC resolution impact on GPSDO's performance Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 01:15:48 +1300 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Magnus Danielson wrote: > > From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] TIC reso

Re: [time-nuts] TIC resolution impact on GPSDO's performance

2006-12-26 Thread Didier Juges
Dr Bruce Griffiths wrote: > Didier Juges wrote: > >> Dr Bruce Griffiths wrote: >> >> >>> Didier Juges wrote: >>> >>> >>> This discussion is fascinating, and as always it has prompted a number of other questions for me. I understand the sawtooth correct

Re: [time-nuts] Simulation tools for oscillators

2006-12-26 Thread Dr Bruce Griffiths
Tim Shoppa wrote: > Are there any useful, free or near-free tools for simulating > high-performance oscillators? I'm thinking particularly about > making at least a little bit quantatitive statments > about phase noise through simulation. > > SPICE will simulate an oscillator starting up, doesn't d

Re: [time-nuts] TIC resolution impact on GPSDO's performance

2006-12-26 Thread Dr Bruce Griffiths
Didier Juges wrote: > Dr Bruce Griffiths wrote: > >> Didier Juges wrote: >> >> >>> This discussion is fascinating, and as always it has prompted a number >>> of other questions for me. >>> >>> I understand the sawtooth correction is provided to allow correction of >>> 1 PPS timing erro

[time-nuts] Paper Recorder FS

2006-12-26 Thread Bruce Lanning
I have a Fisher Series 5000 2 pen 11" paper recorder in excess of my needs that is for sale. Complete data on this recorder can be seen at: http://www.allendatagraph.com/omni5000.html I am asking $75.00 plus shipping within the USA. It is in excellent condition. Thanks, Bruce W1GBS at [EMAIL PRO

Re: [time-nuts] RFTG-m-XO disassembly photos

2006-12-26 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Nope, haven't fired it up yet. I'm not sure when that will actually happen; too many projects going on in the basement! I wanted to get the pics up to assist anyone else who may be working out the interface information, so did that before anything else. John Didier Juges said the following

Re: [time-nuts] RFTG-m-XO disassembly photos

2006-12-26 Thread Didier Juges
John, Nice pics! Did you at least run it to see if it works and what kind of performance you could get out of it? Didier KO4BB John Ackermann N8UR wrote: > My RFTG-m-XO arrived today, and the first thing I had to do was rip it > apart. I've put a series of pictures of the thing in various sta

[time-nuts] RFTG-m-XO disassembly photos

2006-12-26 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
My RFTG-m-XO arrived today, and the first thing I had to do was rip it apart. I've put a series of pictures of the thing in various stages of disassembly at http://www.febo.com/time-freq/hardware/Lucent_GPSDO/. The pictures are full resolution so you should be able to zoom in to look at circuit de

[time-nuts] Ovenaire 10 Mhz oscillator looking for info

2006-12-26 Thread Cornell
Looking for info, datasheet, or whatever Ovenaire-Audio-Carpenter (OAC) Model 84-14 10 Mhz oscillator, s/n 26816-2. This is a 2" x 2" x 3.25" sealed unit which weighs 11.0 ounces. The top has two screws marked Freq Adj coarse and fine, and one brass mounting pillar. The bottom has six solder

Re: [time-nuts] Simulation tools for oscillators

2006-12-26 Thread Mike Suhar
Ansoft Designer is intended for RF/Microwave applications. I don't know how well it simulates an oscillator as most often I have heard of it used for amplifiers and filters. Anyway, there is a student version that is free so it is worth a look. http://www.ansoft.com/products/hf/ansoft_designer/

[time-nuts] Ulrich's Plotter under Linux

2006-12-26 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Just to let you know -- I've successfully run Ulrich's very nice Plotter program under Linux using the wine emulator. The only problem I've seen (so far) is that the ADEV chart has a very large left margin with some crud that I think may be an attempt to render Greek symbols. I suspect that's a f

[time-nuts] Simulation tools for oscillators

2006-12-26 Thread Tim Shoppa
Are there any useful, free or near-free tools for simulating high-performance oscillators? I'm thinking particularly about making at least a little bit quantatitive statments about phase noise through simulation. SPICE will simulate an oscillator starting up, doesn't do a particularly good job whe

Re: [time-nuts] TIC resolution impact on GPSDO's performance

2006-12-26 Thread Didier Juges
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Magnus Danielson wri > tes: > > >> harmonic(2) >> 1a) a tone in a harmonic series >> 2) in physics, a component frequency of a harmonic motion that is an integral >> multiple of the fundamental frequency >> >> overtone >> 1b) Harmonic(

Re: [time-nuts] TIC resolution impact on GPSDO's performance

2006-12-26 Thread Didier Juges
Dr Bruce Griffiths wrote: > Didier Juges wrote: > >> This discussion is fascinating, and as always it has prompted a number >> of other questions for me. >> >> I understand the sawtooth correction is provided to allow correction of >> 1 PPS timing errors when the processor clock is non-coheren

Re: [time-nuts] Some GPS signal strength data

2006-12-26 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Poul-Henning Kamp said the following on 12/26/2006 09:35 AM: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Ackermann N8UR writes: > >> I know a lot of cell sites don't have the luxury of a clear sky view, >> but given these results from a decent antenna, I wonder if holdover >> performance continues to b

Re: [time-nuts] Some GPS signal strength data

2006-12-26 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Ackermann N8UR writes: >I know a lot of cell sites don't have the luxury of a clear sky view, >but given these results from a decent antenna, I wonder if holdover >performance continues to be a significant factor in GPSDO design? Lighting, birds, water, spider

[time-nuts] Some GPS signal strength data

2006-12-26 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Slightly related to the recent threads on GPSDO, I have been plotting a bunch of statistics from an M12+ for about 10 months Every five minutes I grab the the number of SVs visible, tracked, signal strength of each bird, and average signal strength of the tracked birds. I have plots of the full r

Re: [time-nuts] 5334A and TIC measurments.

2006-12-26 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I have a Linux-based program for the 5334. I'm not sure I ever posted the code (a perl script that uses the linux-gpib drivers) but I'd be happy to send it to you. John Jack Hudler said the following on 12/25/2006 10:20 PM: > One time I found a site that had some software to read a 5334x co

Re: [time-nuts] TIC resolution impact on GPSDO's performance

2006-12-26 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Magnus Danielson wri tes: >harmonic(2) >1a) a tone in a harmonic series >2) in physics, a component frequency of a harmonic motion that is an integral > multiple of the fundamental frequency > >overtone >1b) Harmonic(2) Overtone is a musical term and it is not th

Re: [time-nuts] TIC resolution impact on GPSDO's performance

2006-12-26 Thread Dr Bruce Griffiths
Magnus Danielson wrote: > From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] TIC resolution impact on GPSDO's performance > Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 08:14:12 + > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dr Bruce Griffiths writes: >> >>>

Re: [time-nuts] TIC resolution impact on GPSDO's performance

2006-12-26 Thread Ulrich Bangert
Poul, > The field in the oncores serial data-stream called negative > sawtooth correction must be taken into account to get optimum > performance out of the receiver. Ignoring it in toto or > simply averaging it will generally not do for OCXO disciplining. thank you for your clear words! Whi

Re: [time-nuts] TIC resolution impact on GPSDO's performance

2006-12-26 Thread Magnus Danielson
From: Dr Bruce Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] TIC resolution impact on GPSDO's performance Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 23:35:28 +1300 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dr Bruce Griffiths writes: > > > >> Poul-Hennin

Re: [time-nuts] TIC resolution impact on GPSDO's performance

2006-12-26 Thread Dr Bruce Griffiths
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dr Bruce Griffiths writes: > >> Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >> >>> I think what you are trying to express is that the frequency from >>> the internal Xtal (at times) is in an overtone of the 1Hz PPS, which >>> gives rise to hanging

Re: [time-nuts] TIC resolution impact on GPSDO's performance

2006-12-26 Thread Magnus Danielson
From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] TIC resolution impact on GPSDO's performance Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 08:14:12 + Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dr Bruce Griffiths writes: > >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > >> I think what y

Re: [time-nuts] TIC resolution impact on GPSDO's performance

2006-12-26 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dr Bruce Griffiths writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> I think what you are trying to express is that the frequency from >> the internal Xtal (at times) is in an overtone of the 1Hz PPS, which >> gives rise to hanging bridges. >> >> >Poul-Henning > >Surely you