Re: [time-nuts] pps vs. 10 MHz timing

2008-12-12 Thread Magnus Danielson
Matt Ettus skrev: On my Oscilloquartz GPSDO, the 10 MHz output goes low at very close to the same time as the 1 PPS output goes high. On my Fury, the 10 MHz sine wave is just dropping off of its max high voltage as the 1 PPS goes high. The 10 MHz CMOS output goes high just shortly before

Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 53, Issue 46

2008-12-12 Thread Björn Gabrielsson
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 14:38 -0800, Brooke Clarke wrote: Hi Mark: I think it's out of date. The current method is to drop an optical corner cube (retro-reflector) in a vacuum and using a laser measure the distance it moves (which requires a reasonably good source of time.

Re: [time-nuts] pps vs. 10 MHz timing

2008-12-12 Thread SAIDJACK
Hello Matt, Magnus, unfortunately there will be a phase shift between the 1PPS and the 10MHz rising edge due to the nature of how we generate the 1PPS pulse from the clean OCXO 10MHz signal. But this trade-off allows us to offer the 1PPS phase-shift option via the SERV:1PPS command. We

[time-nuts] gravimeters

2008-12-12 Thread Lux, James P
-Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Björn Gabrielsson Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 1:55 PM To: bro...@pacific.net; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol

Re: [time-nuts] gravimeters

2008-12-12 Thread Neville Michie
The problem with helium is that it comes out of oil wells. It does not cost much because they were digging up the oil anyway. If what they say about peak oil is true, in 30 years or so there will be no more helium and nowhere to get it, save tiny quantities from nuclear plants. It seems to

Re: [time-nuts] pps vs. 10 MHz timing

2008-12-12 Thread Magnus Danielson
saidj...@aol.com skrev: Hello Matt, Magnus, unfortunately there will be a phase shift between the 1PPS and the 10MHz rising edge due to the nature of how we generate the 1PPS pulse from the clean OCXO 10MHz signal. But this trade-off allows us to offer the 1PPS phase-shift option

Re: [time-nuts] gravimeters

2008-12-12 Thread Mark Sims
There is just something nice about a 60 year old piece of technology (that is still being made and used daily) that can be schlepped by a trained ape (aka graduate student) to the remote corners of the earth and back and measure something as piddly as gravity to parts per billion resolution...