Re: [time-nuts] Interesting white elephant on *bay

2007-01-01 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "John Miles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : Looks like it needs some kind of dongle in order to operate, which is : (hopefully) missing... I wonder if you can run it unkeyed? The KYK-13 is for uploading keying material. Anybody have a manual for this be

Re: [time-nuts] Interesting white elephant on *bay

2007-01-01 Thread Bruce Lane
I recognize the tags. That thing is ex-Boeing. Probably from the military electronics division. I believe I can say, with confidence, that the unit is probably good only as a curiosity in its current condition. The mil-electronics division, like all other Boeing div's, has very

Re: [time-nuts] Interesting white elephant on *bay

2007-01-01 Thread Brooke Clarke
Hi David: I have an earlier version, see: http://www.pacificsites.com/~brooke/5001a/5001A.html The block diagram matches the GPS spec ICD-200 and the boards are made using wire wrap and standard ICs. Have Fun, Brooke Clarke w/Java http://www.PRC68.com w/o Java http://www.pacificsites.com/~broo

Re: [time-nuts] Interesting white elephant on *bay

2007-01-01 Thread David I. Emery
On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 09:57:12PM -0800, John Miles wrote: > Looks like it needs some kind of dongle in order to operate, which is > (hopefully) missing... It has a standard connector for the keyloader for loading the P/Y crypto keys since it can simulate the P/Y signal too. Obviously

Re: [time-nuts] Interesting white elephant on *bay

2007-01-01 Thread John Miles
Looks like it needs some kind of dongle in order to operate, which is (hopefully) missing... -- john, KE5FX > Ebay item 130064070991 should interest some members of the > group I think. > > Not clear how one controls it (does it have an ethernet > port somewhere ?) > > Fun and

[time-nuts] Interesting white elephant on *bay

2007-01-01 Thread David I. Emery
Ebay item 130064070991 should interest some members of the group I think. Not clear how one controls it (does it have an ethernet port somewhere ?) Fun and games could happen with this thing in the wrong hands... -- Dave Emery N1PRE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIE Consulti

Re: [time-nuts] Simple question I am sure

2007-01-01 Thread Tom Van Baak
> How do we know which is the more accurate timekeeper? > > Keep in mind we have no other units to compare with. Only these two. If there is only one clock -- that is the exact time and you are sure of it (and strictly speaking, in this case, the word "accuracy" doesn't apply). If you have two c

Re: [time-nuts] Simple question I am sure

2007-01-01 Thread Brooke Clarke
Hi Jim: With just 2 standards you don't know which is the best. Someone has to make an additional box so there's at least 3 to test. This way you can rank them. A timing grade GPS receiver is very handy for this sort of thing. By measuring the time interval between the GPS 1 PPS output an

[time-nuts] Simple question I am sure

2007-01-01 Thread Jim Palfreyman
Hello, Let me introduce myself. I've always been interested in time and more and more accurate clocks. I have built myself a GPS disciplined HP10811 clock (Murray Greenman's design) and it all works very nicely. I have acquired the old Australian "Speaking Clock" hardware and am driving it from

Re: [time-nuts] Soekris NTP server

2007-01-01 Thread Brendan Minish
On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 21:47 +, Brendan Minish wrote: > 2/ the GPIO0 pin is the second pin in from the left on the bottom row as > seen with the board serial port facing you before anyone kills a board I need to make this clearer! with the serial port facing you JP3 is as follows 2 4 6 8 1

Re: [time-nuts] Soekris NTP server

2007-01-01 Thread Brendan Minish
A result! I have it working now. A few notes in no particular order for anyone else who wishes to try this with the soekris 4521 1/ the junction of R61/r62 are between JP1 and the CF slot but are not marked as R61/R62. the end of the 2 resistors facing the outside edge of the board is the junc

Re: [time-nuts] 492BP chassis heat.

2007-01-01 Thread John Miles
No prob, I'm on here too. :-) -- john, KE5FX > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Gerald Molenkamp > Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 3:53 AM > To: time-nuts@febo.com > Subject: [time-nuts] 492BP chassis heat. > > > Happy new year to you all

Re: [time-nuts] Soekris NTP server

2007-01-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brendan Minish wri tes: >And another dumb freeBSD question >where is the correct place to put the commands I want to run every time >we boot > >basically I need to run If the server is a dedicated NTP server, I would put all the NTP related initialization in /et

Re: [time-nuts] New pics of RFTG-m-Rb, and some comparison details

2007-01-01 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Jason Rabel said the following on 12/31/2006 09:45 PM: > The two units go in (what was told to me) an open frame chassis, it has SMA > and I believe DB-15 connections along the top. The connections on the > chassis split the signals even more, presumably for routing to the rest of > the cell. > >

Re: [time-nuts] New pics of RFTG-m-Rb, and some comparison details

2007-01-01 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Rex said the following on 12/31/2006 08:08 PM: in the boxes, so far. > > I just got an RFG-RB which seems to be a few years newer than the > RFTG-m-RB's. In that one, I can't find any connection to the LPRO Rb > module, in it, that could cause it to be disciplined. The one I have > seems to be sti

[time-nuts] 492BP chassis heat.

2007-01-01 Thread Gerald Molenkamp
Oops, Please ignore, wrong forum. Cheers ___ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts

[time-nuts] 492BP chassis heat.

2007-01-01 Thread Gerald Molenkamp
Happy new year to you all. After quite a number of positive replies to the issue of 492BP chassis heat, I am satisfied that it is fine. John, thanks. I did see the thermal switch today, it is also 103 Degrees C down here. My new years resolution is to take John's advice, ( Quit messing with it