Re: [time-nuts] GPS Display clock

2010-03-31 Thread bg
Hi Sanjeev, On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 13:51, b...@lysator.liu.se wrote: Zealand is an island between Denmark and Sweden. Was not aware of that. Lat/Lon? 55.5N 11.75E Ahaa... Zealand is the English name for Sjaelland. Well, Sjaelland _is_ Denmark. Try telling a dane 'Copenhagen is on an

[time-nuts] GPS Display clock (Dave Lance)

2010-03-31 Thread mc0fred
G'Day Dave, Would one of these do the job? http://www.siliconchip.com.au/cms/A_111363/article.html http://www.siliconchip.com.au/cms/A_111709/article.html ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to

Re: [time-nuts] GPS Display clock

2010-03-31 Thread Magnus Danielson
b...@lysator.liu.se wrote: Hi Sanjeev, On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 13:51, b...@lysator.liu.se wrote: Zealand is an island between Denmark and Sweden. Was not aware of that. Lat/Lon? 55.5N 11.75E Ahaa... Zealand is the English name for Sjaelland. Well, Sjaelland

Re: [time-nuts] HP10514B Mixers

2010-03-31 Thread EWKehren
Is there a way you can post it on time-nuts? Thank you Bert Kehren In a message dated 3/30/2010 9:10:19 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, kilodelta4foxm...@gmail.com writes: We'll the As are the package with the BNC connector. The Bs are for OEM equipment, they had 6 pins and a smaller

Re: [time-nuts] GPS Display clock

2010-03-31 Thread Bruce Griffiths
b...@lysator.liu.se wrote: Zealand is an island between Denmark and Sweden. Was not aware of that. Lat/Lon? Zeeland is a province of the Netherlands Been there... Bruce -- Björn The name New Zealand originates from the latter via Dutch Cartographers.

[time-nuts] GPS Display clock

2010-03-31 Thread G0MIC
Dave If you don't mind building it yourself and customising some PIC code try this _http://www.g4jnt.com/GPLOCDIS.ZIP_ (http://www.g4jnt.com/GPLOCDIS.ZIP) I used a different GPS unit and found a minor bug in the code because of that but if you go down this route I can let you have the

Re: [time-nuts] OT Question - Surplus Places

2010-03-31 Thread paul swed
Never heard of elis and I have been out here 12 years. NH had some places and as mentioned a few exist. I used to visit some just across the ma/nh boarder. But most of what I have seen has been the very very bottom of the barrel. Oh for the flea market days when trucks of test equipment showed up

[time-nuts] OT Question - Surplus Places

2010-03-31 Thread Arthur Dent
Lester Veenstra-I guess this means Eli's is gone ! I used to go to Eli Heffron Sons when Eli ran it and also after the two sons took over the business. There was always something of interest to be found. I never knew I 'needed' an item until I saw it at the bottom of a pile of other

Re: [time-nuts] OT Question - Surplus Places

2010-03-31 Thread Stanley Reynolds
I'm in Birmingham and even the thrift stores here list their stuff on ebay, could give you a list of closed places, was one in Decatur ... You can find places using ebay and see if they will let you come by for a look, no joy for time-nuts stuff but for other stuff this has worked for me. UAB

Re: [time-nuts] HP10514B Mixers

2010-03-31 Thread Brian Kirby
The manual is about a megabyte - the list will not accept it. ewkeh...@aol.com wrote: Is there a way you can post it on time-nuts? Thank you Bert Kehren In a message dated 3/30/2010 9:10:19 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, kilodelta4foxm...@gmail.com writes: We'll the As are the package

[time-nuts] For Brian Kirby

2010-03-31 Thread John Green
Going to Talladega? I am in Anniston, just a hop, skip away. If you get time, drop by. I am at 1750 Coleman Rd. We don't have a Time Nuts quality lab here but do have some interesting stuff. John Green ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To

Re: [time-nuts] OT Question - Surplus Places

2010-03-31 Thread J. Forster
They went into the DEC and PC business years ago and I've not been there in 30 years. I've heard the brothers, Ben and Jay are both long dead. Meshna is also long gone. BnF is still around but selling mostly PC related stuff. Peter Boniface comes to most of the MIT Fleas. There are a couple of

Re: [time-nuts] OT Question - Surplus Places

2010-03-31 Thread J. Forster
Never heard of elis and I have been out here 12 years. NH had some places and as mentioned a few exist. I used to visit some just across the ma/nh boarder. But most of what I have seen has been the very very bottom of the barrel. Oh for the flea market days when trucks of test equipment

Re: [time-nuts] OT Question - Surplus Places

2010-03-31 Thread Joseph M Gwinn
There is also Young Engineering in Salem, Mass. http://www.youngengsales.com/ They used to have more electronics stuff, but they seem to have become a used machine tool dealer. Well, the electronics stuff may be too numerous and cheap to be worth listing on the website.

Re: [time-nuts] HP10514B Mixers

2010-03-31 Thread EWKehren
Would you mind sending it direct to me at _ewkeh...@aol.com_ (mailto:ewkeh...@aol.com) as an attachment? You know we are in the test phase of a Dual Mixer and we are also running tests with the 10514 A and B along with the SYPD-1. The next board will accept the footprint of the 10514 B.

Re: [time-nuts] OT Question - Surplus Places

2010-03-31 Thread J. Forster
Brother Ben ran the surplus store Brother Jay ran Solid State Sales, the IC operation in the basement. -John That's the placeUsed to buy RTL logic there Lester B Veenstra MØYCM K1YCM les...@veenstras.com m0...@veenstras.com k1...@veenstras.com   US Postal

Re: [time-nuts] OT Question - Surplus Places

2010-03-31 Thread Lester Veenstra
And I had completely forgotten about Meshnas. Spent much more time there, and one company in the same area that morphed into electronic music instruments. Lester B Veenstra MØYCM K1YCM les...@veenstras.com m0...@veenstras.com k1...@veenstras.com   US Postal Address: PSC 45 Box 781 APO AE

Re: [time-nuts] HP 00105-6012 5 MHz Crystal Oven Assy.

2010-03-31 Thread paul swed
Ignacio I do not know. But those ovens actually started me in the world of frequency references. I found one at a computerfest many years ago 1992 for 50 cents. I discovered they were used in the HP5360 (I now have 4 of those working)and HP5248m as I recall. I think they were used in other

Re: [time-nuts] HP10514B Mixers

2010-03-31 Thread Bruce Griffiths
Upload it to the manuals section of Didier's site: http://www.ko4bb.com/cgi-bin/manuals.pl Bruce Brian Kirby wrote: The manual is about a megabyte - the list will not accept it. ewkeh...@aol.com wrote: Is there a way you can post it on time-nuts? Thank you Bert Kehren In a message dated

[time-nuts] Surplus Places...

2010-03-31 Thread Burt I. Weiner
In the Southern, California - Los Angeles area, we have a place called Apex Electronics. Some of the prices in the past have been outrageous, but now seem to becoming more reasonable. Right now there seems to be a ton of NTSC TV stuffs coming in the doors. I think you could spend days

Re: [time-nuts] Surplus Places...

2010-03-31 Thread paul swed
I spotted this place a couple years ago. Noted it but have not been back to LA with time to get to the place. It indeed looks like a great place for the things I tend to be interested in. Though good to here the $ may be more reasonable. In Santa Clara some of the places want gold for true junk.

Re: [time-nuts] HP10514B Mixers

2010-03-31 Thread Brian Kirby
I uploaded the 10514 and 10534 mixer manuals to ko4bb site Bruce Griffiths wrote: Upload it to the manuals section of Didier's site: http://www.ko4bb.com/cgi-bin/manuals.pl Bruce ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go

Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 68, Issue 177

2010-03-31 Thread Dave M
Message: 4 Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:28:09 -0700 (PDT) From: J. Forster j...@quik.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] OT Question - Surplus Places To: les...@veenstras.com, Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Message-ID:

Re: [time-nuts] Surplus Places...

2010-03-31 Thread Tom Holmes, N8ZM
Dayton Hamvention, May 14-16. Always lots of surplus equipment dealers in flea market. Good opportunity to haggle over price, see what you are buying in person, and see a lot of other junque as well. www.hamvention.org Regards, Tom Holmes, N8ZM Tipp City, OH EM79xx -Original Message-

Re: [time-nuts] Surplus Places...

2010-03-31 Thread J. Forster
Apex was in Sun Valley. They were there in 1979 and had lots of aerospace telemetry stuff there. I bought an Omega receiver and carried it to Boston as baggage. Those were the days. Sadly CH is now gone. I don't know if Palley Supply is still in business. There was also Industrial Liquidators at

Re: [time-nuts] Surplus Places...

2010-03-31 Thread J. Forster
This I can't resist! In about 1963, I was at Eli Heffron's in Cambridge. The old man, Eli was still alive. Anyway, they had won a big lot for many kilobucks from IBM near NYC. I was there when they unloaded. They were all hot about the money they were going to make form all the memory cores they

Re: [time-nuts] Surplus Places...

2010-03-31 Thread Don Latham
Goes to showya---word order can be important, core memory and memory core...hehe Don J. Forster This I can't resist! In about 1963, I was at Eli Heffron's in Cambridge. The old man, Eli was still alive. Anyway, they had won a big lot for many kilobucks from IBM near NYC. I was there when

Re: [time-nuts] Surplus Places...

2010-03-31 Thread Scott Burris
CH closed briefly to move and is now open in Duarte: http://www.candhsurplus.com/ At Apex, a friend tried to purchase a nose cone from a rocket, but they declined to sell it to him because they were making too much money renting it out to movie studios. Scott On Mar 31, 2010, at 1:02 PM, J.

Re: [time-nuts] Surplus Places...

2010-03-31 Thread J. Forster
Wow!! Thanks, -John CH closed briefly to move and is now open in Duarte: http://www.candhsurplus.com/ At Apex, a friend tried to purchase a nose cone from a rocket, but they declined to sell it to him because they were making too much money renting it out to movie

Re: [time-nuts] Surplus Places...

2010-03-31 Thread jimlux
Scott Burris wrote: CH closed briefly to move and is now open in Duarte: http://www.candhsurplus.com/ At Apex, a friend tried to purchase a nose cone from a rocket, but they declined to sell it to him because they were making too much money renting it out to movie studios. Scott That is

Re: [time-nuts] Surplus Places...

2010-03-31 Thread Rex
jimlux wrote: Scott Burris wrote: CH closed briefly to move and is now open in Duarte: http://www.candhsurplus.com/ At Apex, a friend tried to purchase a nose cone from a rocket, but they declined to sell it to him because they were making too much money renting it out to movie studios.

Re: [time-nuts] Surplus Places...

2010-03-31 Thread d . seiter
Wow, kind of a cross between the old Halted and Alan Steel in Redwood City. I know where to go if I need doorknobs! Dave - Original Message - From: Burt I. Weiner b...@att.net To: time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 1:24:47 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain

Re: [time-nuts] Surplus Places...

2010-03-31 Thread Don Latham
Well, there are more reasons for astounding prices. For example, Ebay was a good place to get stuff, until it changed from a marketplace to a virtual storefront. A bunch of buy it now's does not establish a marketplace where prices can be determined. So the BIN's have prices that seem outrageous.

Re: [time-nuts] Surplus Places...

2010-03-31 Thread jimlux
Rex wrote: jimlux wrote: Scott Burris wrote: CH closed briefly to move and is now open in Duarte: http://www.candhsurplus.com/ At Apex, a friend tried to purchase a nose cone from a rocket, but they declined to sell it to him because they were making too much money renting it out to movie