Re: [time-nuts] Finally acquired a 5370B

2008-06-11 Thread Didier Juges
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Griffiths > Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 9:03 PM > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Finally acquired a 5370B > > It is usually worthwhile t

Re: [time-nuts] Finally acquired a 5370B

2008-06-11 Thread Bruce Griffiths
Jim Palfreyman wrote: > Hi all, > > Well getting a second hand 5370B will be no big deal for those of you in the > US, but in Australia getting one of these units is very expensive due to > rare local availability and cost of postage from the US. I was recently > quoted US$350 - more than the unit

Re: [time-nuts] Finally acquired a 5370B

2008-06-11 Thread Didier Juges
Jim, I have two 5370A counters, and both were afflicted by the "cheap socket" syndrom. After a year or so of intermittent operation (in spite of frequent removing and reseating of the parts and application of Deoxit Gold), I took the two boards with most of the sockets (processor board and memory

Re: [time-nuts] Finally acquired a 5370B

2008-06-11 Thread John Miles
There's a lot about 5370s in the archive. Common problems seem to be intermittent sockets for the ROM chips, and (in my own experience) dirty polarity/impedance/attenuator switches. The manual has a good self-check procedure for the internal circuitry, but you need to be careful to ensure that th

Re: [time-nuts] Thunderbolt PS

2008-06-11 Thread Didier Juges
Call AllElectronics.com They had the exact same power supply on their web site a week ago. Didier KO4BB > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Lanning > Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 12:28 PM > To: Discussion of precise time and f

[time-nuts] Finally acquired a 5370B

2008-06-11 Thread Jim Palfreyman
Hi all, Well getting a second hand 5370B will be no big deal for those of you in the US, but in Australia getting one of these units is very expensive due to rare local availability and cost of postage from the US. I was recently quoted US$350 - more than the unit itself cost! However after patie

Re: [time-nuts] Thunderbolt PS

2008-06-11 Thread Bruce Lanning
Thanks all who responded to my inquiry about a Thunderbolt PS. I contacted TAPR and they said that they got their Thunderbolts and PS in pairs from Tom and could not supply only a PS. I don't know who Tom is ! Bruce W1GBS - Original Message - From: "Stanley Reynolds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [time-nuts] Thunderbolt PS

2008-06-11 Thread Stanley Reynolds
I'm not Didier Juges but assume he is refering to TAPR: Phone: 972-671-TAPR (8277) Office Hours: (US Central Time zone) 0900-1700 Monday - Friday email web site: https://www.tapr.org/inforequest.php Stanley - Original Message From: Bruce Lanning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Discussion of pre

Re: [time-nuts] Thunderbolt PS

2008-06-11 Thread Bruce Lanning
Call who??? - Original Message - From: "Didier Juges" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement'" Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 1:18 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Thunderbolt PS > You may try to call them, they may still have a few on hand. > > They

Re: [time-nuts] Thunderbolt PS

2008-06-11 Thread Didier Juges
You may try to call them, they may still have a few on hand. They were on the web site just a week ago. Didier KO4BB > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Lanning > Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 11:33 AM > To: time-nuts@febo.com

[time-nuts] Fw: Austron 2100F

2008-06-11 Thread Stanley Reynolds
- Forwarded Message From: Stanley Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 12:04:26 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Austron 2100F - Original Message From: Dan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurem

[time-nuts] Thunderbolt PS

2008-06-11 Thread Bruce Lanning
I have a ThunderBolt GPS from a different source than TAPER. Can someone tell me where I can get a TAPER like power supply for my thunderbolt. I have checked Allelectronics without success. Any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks, Bruce W1GBS

Re: [time-nuts] Auston 2100F

2008-06-11 Thread Dan Rae
Stanley Reynolds wrote: > > Looking for some more info on operation and if setting the Time Constant to > 3200GRIs is important ? Also have not set the total emission delay as I'm > guessing it has no effect except with the 2100T. > Stanley, I have the manual for the 2100 (with no suffix), i

[time-nuts] Auston 2100F

2008-06-11 Thread Stanley Reynolds
Just got one on Ebay, it was reported with display problems and possibly not working. The display problem was real but it appears to work fine. Thanks Brooke Clarke his quick start for the 2100T works for the 2100F if you substitute "ACQ" key for "Master" key. Fixed 1/2 of the display problem pu

Re: [time-nuts] Loran vets: http://www.loran-history.info/

2008-06-11 Thread Javier Herrero
Can't imagine ;) Poul-Henning Kamp escribió: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Mark > Kahrs" writes: >> That umich document has to be one of the more interesting historical >> tidbits... For those who are in doubt, it appears to be D. L. Mills >> bachelor's thesis (!). > > And you *do* know who

Re: [time-nuts] Loran vets: http://www.loran-history.info/

2008-06-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Mark Kahrs" writes: >That umich document has to be one of the more interesting historical >tidbits... For those who are in doubt, it appears to be D. L. Mills >bachelor's thesis (!). And you *do* know who wrote the research proposal which caused people to experim

[time-nuts] Interesting article on GPS and ionospheric properties measurements

2008-06-11 Thread Didier Juges
http://www.agu.org/journals/sw/swa/free/newarticle/?id=2008SW000400 Didier KO4BB ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.

Re: [time-nuts] Loran vets: http://www.loran-history.info/

2008-06-11 Thread Mark Kahrs
That umich document has to be one of the more interesting historical tidbits... For those who are in doubt, it appears to be D. L. Mills bachelor's thesis (!). On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For those of you playing with Loran-C, I found this pa

Re: [time-nuts] Ethernet-GPIB interfaces

2008-06-11 Thread Magnus Danielson
From: "Matt Ettus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [time-nuts] Ethernet-GPIB interfaces Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:13:34 -0700 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Has anyone had any luck with Ethernet-GPIB bridges under Linux? The > NI one seems to use a proprietary interface. The 8605 from ICSelect >