[time-nuts] Fake leap second ntp servers

2008-01-31 Thread Maciej Żenczykowski
Hey folks, I just joined your email list to inquire about something which some of you may have some knowledge of... I'm developing some code (for linux with an ntp server/client running), for which I would like to verify that it handles positive (and negative) leap seconds correctly (I need good

Re: [time-nuts] Fake leap second ntp servers

2008-01-31 Thread Jeff Mock
There's probably a good NTP hacker hanging around on this list, but the best place to answer your question is probably the NTP hackers mailing list: https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo jeff Maciej Żenczykowski wrote: Hey folks, I just joined your email list to inquire about

[time-nuts] Raltron OX-6000D-L1-10-50.000-TN

2008-01-31 Thread Christophe Huygens
Hi, does anybody have specs for the 6000 series... not on the site. This XO seems to have 3 outputs. Thanks, Christophe begin:vcard fn:Christophe Huygens n:Huygens;Christophe org:K.U.Leuven;Dept. Computerwetenschappen adr;dom:;;Celestijnenlaan 200A;Heverlee;;3001 email;internet:[EMAIL

[time-nuts] Power Supply Questions

2008-01-31 Thread Jason Rabel
Does the power source for just a GPS module matter that much? Most that I've seen just use a cheap wallwort and a lm-whatever 5v regulator chip... nothing fancy. My second question is what do you guys think about Acopian power supplies? I picked up a couple 24v linear gold box models with good

[time-nuts] Clock Powers of Ten

2008-01-31 Thread Tom Van Baak
There are good clocks and bad clocks. Most need power, one needs food, another runs all by itself. Take a trip across 15 orders of magnitude of clock performance: http://www.leapsecond.com/ten/ /tvb ___ time-nuts mailing list --

Re: [time-nuts] Clock Powers of Ten

2008-01-31 Thread Scott Newell
At 03:55 PM 1/31/2008, Tom Van Baak wrote: Take a trip across 15 orders of magnitude of clock performance: http://www.leapsecond.com/ten/ Fun! What piece of equipment is that Isotemp OCXO (page 28) used in? -- newell N5TNL ___ time-nuts

Re: [time-nuts] Power Supply Questions

2008-01-31 Thread Bruce Griffiths
Jason Rabel wrote: Does the power source for just a GPS module matter that much? Most that I've seen just use a cheap wallwort and a lm-whatever 5v regulator chip... nothing fancy. Jason Wall warts do (as other supplies with high transformer primary secondary capacitance) have the

Re: [time-nuts] Clock Powers of Ten

2008-01-31 Thread Sylvain RICHARD
Tom Van Baak wrote: There are good clocks and bad clocks. Most need power, one needs food, another runs all by itself. Take a trip across 15 orders of magnitude of clock performance: http://www.leapsecond.com/ten/ /tvb I must say the drip clock was very nice. Re the mains

Re: [time-nuts] Clock Powers of Ten

2008-01-31 Thread Rob Kimberley
There are good clocks and bad clocks. Most need power, one needs food, another runs all by itself. Take a trip across 15 orders of magnitude of clock performance: Excellent stuff Tom! Best Rgds Rob K ___ time-nuts mailing list --

Re: [time-nuts] Clock Powers of Ten

2008-01-31 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Very cool, Tom! John Tom Van Baak said the following on 01/31/2008 04:55 PM: There are good clocks and bad clocks. Most need power, one needs food, another runs all by itself. Take a trip across 15 orders of magnitude of clock performance: http://www.leapsecond.com/ten/ /tvb

[time-nuts] Tracor 895A

2008-01-31 Thread Nic McLean
Hi all, Can anybody lead me to information on the Tracor 895A Linear Phase / Time Comparator? A simple google search doesn't turn up much. Regards, Nic ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to

Re: [time-nuts] Clock Powers of Ten

2008-01-31 Thread Jeff Mock
Very nice, it reminded me of a NYT article about a year ago that describes the long zoom as one of the defining aspects of this generation: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/magazine/08games.html?ei=5090en=d551133c9414ebbdex=131796partner=rssuserlandemc=rsspagewanted=all jeff John

Re: [time-nuts] Clock Powers of Ten

2008-01-31 Thread michael taylor
On Jan 31, 2008 5:27 PM, Sylvain RICHARD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Re the mains frequency, I believe it changes with the load on the grid. Do you have a record of this? I forget the reasoning for frequency variation, but it is load or source related I believe. Part of the reason it A project

Re: [time-nuts] Clock Powers of Ten

2008-01-31 Thread Sylvain RICHARD
michael taylor a écrit : On Jan 31, 2008 5:27 PM, Sylvain RICHARD [1][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Re the mains frequency, I believe it changes with the load on the grid. Do you have a record of this? I forget the reasoning for frequency variation, but it is load or source related I believe. Part

Re: [time-nuts] Tracor 895A

2008-01-31 Thread Alan Melia
Hi Nic these are difficult to find for free but Ridge Electronics have one for Tracor 895 at $20. I just got a Montronics Freq Diff meter manual from them. Alan G3NYK - Original Message - From: Nic McLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement'

Re: [time-nuts] Clock Powers of Ten

2008-01-31 Thread Alan Melia
Hi, I dont know about other counties but the oad shedding is certainly still dont this way in the UK, BUT the incremental frequency adjectments are corrected for the mean daily frequency to be correvt at 06:00 in the morning so that all the clocks read correctly and we get to work on time!!

Re: [time-nuts] Clock Powers of Ten

2008-01-31 Thread Magnus Danielson
From: Sylvain RICHARD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Clock Powers of Ten Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:25:54 +0100 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] michael taylor a écrit : On Jan 31, 2008 5:27 PM, Sylvain RICHARD [1][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Re the mains frequency, I believe it

Re: [time-nuts] Tracor 895A

2008-01-31 Thread Nic McLean
Thanks Alan, I'll give them a try. 73's Nic VK2KXN / VK5ZAT Hi Nic these are difficult to find for free but Ridge Electronics have one for Tracor 895 at $20. I just got a Montronics Freq Diff meter manual from them. Alan G3NYK ___ time-nuts

Re: [time-nuts] Tracor 895A

2008-01-31 Thread Max Skop
Hi all, I also have a Tracor 895 and have a copy of the manual. It is all discrete stuff , no IC's. If you reqire a copy, that should be no problem. Max VK3YBA Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Tracor 895A Hi Nic these are difficult to find for free but Ridge Electronics have one for Tracor 895

Re: [time-nuts] Clock Powers of Ten

2008-01-31 Thread Brooke Clarke
Hi Tom: Nice overview. Charles and Ray Eames did: Powers of Ten http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078106/ Toccata for Toy Trains http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051091/ and the Eames chair which is still available from Herman Miller:

Re: [time-nuts] Fake leap second ntp servers

2008-01-31 Thread Maciej Żenczykowski
Thanks I'll give that a try. On Jan 31, 2008 7:58 AM, Jeff Mock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's probably a good NTP hacker hanging around on this list, but the best place to answer your question is probably the NTP hackers mailing list: https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo jeff

Re: [time-nuts] Clock Powers of Ten

2008-01-31 Thread Bruce Griffiths
Brooke Clarke wrote: Hi Tom: Nice overview. I think in your Powers of Ten you showed a timepiece for which I don't remember any data. Since it's shown on the last page does that mean the hour glass has very good specs? How can it have (as a clock)? It isnt a periodic device by