Re: [time-nuts] Maintaining boatanchors

2010-10-26 Thread d . seiter
I work with a guy who worked there for years as a CE. He still has contacts; it's a real long shot, but I'll give it a shot. -Dave - Original Message - From: "Jason Rabel" To: time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 12:06:10 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Maintaining boatan

Re: [time-nuts] I have a new toy

2010-10-26 Thread d . seiter
I have it's slightly younger cousin, a Wavetek 5100; I thought mine had a 10MHz reference, but I could be wrong. Never had an issue with it. -Dave - Original Message - From: "Larry Snyder" To: time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 4:51:10 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] I

Re: [time-nuts] Determining Time-Nut infection severity

2010-10-26 Thread Heathkid
Maybe I should have closed with "Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero " ___ 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] Determining Time-Nut infection severity

2010-10-26 Thread Heathkid
Isn't that a relative question? "a lot of spare time on your hands"? I have very little and each uS extra I have is a blessing. Time? Really? Maybe I'll just have the year I die engraved. After all, even the "year" is subjective (which calendar are you using as a reference?)... Maybe it'll

Re: [time-nuts] SatStat Software Whereabouts

2010-10-26 Thread J. L. Trantham
Didier, I uploaded the two files as two .zip files, one for the HP (SatStat) and one for the Symmetricom (58503_SatStat50). Hope it did OK. Joe -Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of shali...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, October 2

Re: [time-nuts] I have a new toy

2010-10-26 Thread paul swed
I have a couple of HP 3335s that do a millihertz and from something low to 80 Mhz. Generally an excellent instrument with 10th db steps. Have indeed set various offsets into it for receiver testing and IMD. On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Larry Snyder wrote: > Magnus Danielson wrote: > > On 1

Re: [time-nuts] Determining Time-Nut infection severity

2010-10-26 Thread Richard W. Solomon
Man, you guys really have a lot of spare time on your hands ... Please, Mr. NIST, give us another Leap Second !! HI HI 73, Dick, W1KSZ -Original Message- >From: Bob Bownes >Sent: Oct 26, 2010 5:37 PM >To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement >Subject: Re: [time-nuts]

Re: [time-nuts] Determining Time-Nut infection severity

2010-10-26 Thread Bob Bownes
To sort of make an on/off topic comment, here in NY, we have recently begun using hypothermic protocol on cardiac arrest patients that have undergone a reversal. If the heart has stopped and been restarted either with a defib or by CPR alone and we are on scene in a short enough span of time, we ca

Re: [time-nuts] Determining Time-Nut infection severity

2010-10-26 Thread Hal Murray
> There is one case in which a Swedish medical student was out skiing in > Norway and went through the ice and was being held there by the strong > water. It took them 45 min just to get her out of the water. Her heart had > stopped. Her respiration had stopped. She have had no pulse or breath f

Re: [time-nuts] TVB - Tell us how the FTS 4065A works!

2010-10-26 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 10/27/2010 01:08 AM, Brooke Clarke wrote: Hi Tom: I'd be interested to hear if your unit is sensitive to being around iron. I think mine is. Has the mumetal become defective or does it need an additional layer? My cesium has the same inner core as the FTS 4065A. I will have to setup some

Re: [time-nuts] TVB - Tell us how the FTS 4065A works!

2010-10-26 Thread Brooke Clarke
Hi Tom: I'd be interested to hear if your unit is sensitive to being around iron. I think mine is. Have Fun, Brooke Clarke http://www.PRC68.com Tom Van Baak wrote: Will do. Brooke Clarke has one too. See: http://www.prc68.com/I/FTS4060.shtml /tvb ___

Re: [time-nuts] I have a new toy

2010-10-26 Thread Larry Snyder
Magnus Danielson wrote: > On 10/25/2010 05:08 AM, paul swed wrote: > > Never heard of one before indeed interesting > > More or less exactly what I was thinking myself. > > Would guess it uses the mix and divide strategy used in many of the > decade synthesizers of it's time. I have an older c

Re: [time-nuts] Determining Time-Nut infection severity

2010-10-26 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 10/25/2010 10:16 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Oct 25, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Bill Hawkins wrote: Normally, the brain dies from lack of oxygen to maintain cellular activity. Not only is this not instantaneous, it is the cause of stories of seeing a light at the end of a tunnel that are told by

Re: [time-nuts] Determining Time-Nut infection severity

2010-10-26 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 10/25/2010 04:21 PM, William H. Fite wrote: Mike is correct. Brain activity does not screech to a halt but peters out over a period of minutes once the heart stops beating. When we (I'm in the medical field and not, by any stretch of the imagination an engineer) speak of someone being "brain

Re: [time-nuts] TVB - Tell us how the FTS 4065A works!

2010-10-26 Thread Tom Van Baak
Will do. Brooke Clarke has one too. See: http://www.prc68.com/I/FTS4060.shtml /tvb ___ 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] I have a new toy

2010-10-26 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 10/25/2010 05:08 AM, paul swed wrote: Never heard of one before indeed interesting More or less exactly what I was thinking myself. Would guess it uses the mix and divide strategy used in many of the decade synthesizers of it's time. Cheers, Magnus __

[time-nuts] TVB - Tell us how the FTS 4065A works!

2010-10-26 Thread Jason Rabel
Tom, I saw you won the auction for the FTS 4065A... It looks in pretty pristine condition. If you wouldn't mind posting a blurb on the list about how it runs (sometime in the future) I'm sure everyone would love to hear about it. ___ time-nuts mailin

Re: [time-nuts] R-S Cesium standard

2010-10-26 Thread EWKehren
Bill Thanks for the info. It is obviously Rohde&Schwarz. Funny! All other units I have seen or owned did have a beam current reading, have not been able to find it on these units. Besides Voltages it has oven, contr. Voltage, integrator, AMPL. and 2nd Harmonic. I still have two cesiums and

Re: [time-nuts] R-S Cesium standard

2010-10-26 Thread Bill Hawkins
Didn't know that Radio Shack made Caesium standards. Any phase-locked loop contains an integrator that has the phase error as its input. The output of the integrator is then amplified to produce the control signal for the voltage-controlled oscillator. The integrator output settles at some volta

[time-nuts] Determining Time-Nut infection severity

2010-10-26 Thread phil
The boss in this household has added What he forgot was that the patient will have no concept of time in the "real world" and frequently be late for any event including his own funeral! Phil ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsu

[time-nuts] R-S Cesium standard

2010-10-26 Thread EWKehren
Does any one have any info on the RS cesium standard. Specifically does any one know what switch position 7 Integrator and position 8 Amplifier measure? Any help will be appreciated. Thank you. Bert Kehren ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@feb

Re: [time-nuts] SRS SR620 counter problem

2010-10-26 Thread Rich Stolte
Try running auto cal after loading factory defaults into ram. That may clear up your problem. Rich ___ 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 instr

Re: [time-nuts] SRS SR620 counter problem

2010-10-26 Thread paul swed
Looks like a normal 32 x 8 static ram. But before you go ripping it out. Cut and lift the power pin and measure the current draw. You can always resolder a wire to the lifted pin. Should be 1 ua or less in power down. On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Robert Atkinson wrote: > I'd change the CMOS R

Re: [time-nuts] Distribution Amp suggestions

2010-10-26 Thread Bruce Griffiths
http://www.spectradynamics.com/HPDA-15.html http://www.spectradynamics.com/DA-100.html http://www.quartzlock.com/products.asp?mainCat=3&subCat=19&product=24 http://www.quartzlock.com/products.asp?product=21&subCat=18&main

Re: [time-nuts] Distribution Amp suggestions

2010-10-26 Thread dave powis
Hi Murray, I have one you may also like to look at as part of your considerations - http://g4hup.com/DA/DA.htm Regards, Dave From: Murray Greenman To: time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Tuesday, 26 October, 2010 2:01:32 Subject: [time-nuts] Distribution Amp suggestion

Re: [time-nuts] Determining Time-Nut infection severity

2010-10-26 Thread Steve Rooke
On 26 October 2010 12:07, Ed, k1ggi wrote: > -Original Message- > From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On > Behalf Of William H. Fite > > So.I see no way in which one could determine with precision when life > ends.  At least not with the precision that