Re: [time-nuts] IEEE Spectrum Magazine interviews one of our own...

2011-05-25 Thread cook michael
Le 25/05/2011 04:00, Tom Holmes a écrit : snip Steven Cherry is exaggerating when he says most systems go down for planned maintenance instead of trying to deal with leap seconds in real time. As someone who has been supporting major industrial, banking, airline systems for the last 30

Re: [time-nuts] Top Posting Clarified - Hopefully

2011-05-25 Thread Ken , VK7KRJ
Why is this extra repetition a problem when top-posting, but not a problem when bottom posting On 2011-05-25 12:23, Perry Sandeen wrote: Exalted Listers, Because of the high amount of useable technical information to me I copy each month’s postings to a word file. I do this for two

[time-nuts] Note for W7ITM / replacement for Kenwood SO-1 amd SO-2 TCXO

2011-05-25 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
W7ITM sent me a private email about a replacement for the SO-1. I mentioned there was an eBay seller who sold a replacement which allowed one to use an external reference oscillator, but I was unable to find the auction. I've tried to email him, but my emails are bouncing. I since found the

[time-nuts] What's the best way to double 10 MHz to 20 MHz ?

2011-05-25 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
I'm still trying to find a solution to replacing a standard crystal in a Kenwood TS-940S transceiver with something more accurate. The transceiver uses a 20 MHz crystal oscillator, though a 20 MHz TCXO was available as an option, though few rigs appear to be fitted with it. If one was to make

Re: [time-nuts] IEEE Spectrum Magazine interviews one of our own...

2011-05-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 4ddca21f.2060...@sfr.fr, cook michael writes: As someone who has been supporting major industrial, banking, airline systems for the last 30 years, I remember NO down time, or outage due to leap second insertion. Only the last five years really matter, because tightly

Re: [time-nuts] What's the best way to double 10 MHz to 20 MHz ?

2011-05-25 Thread Raj
A trifilar transformer with two diodes is the simplest. You could also use a mini-circuits doubler, same thing more expensive. Alternatively take an SBL-1 and feed 2 inputs with the same 10Mhz and get a doubled out. You will need to filter it a bit. At 25-05-2011, you wrote: If one was to

Re: [time-nuts] What's the best way to double 10 MHz to 20 MHz ?

2011-05-25 Thread dave powis
Hi Dave, Use a diode doubler, follwed by a 20MHz filter and a MMIC /attenuator combination to allow you to set the level.  If you need more detail, e-mail me directly and I'll provide. 73, Dave From: Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net To: Discussion

Re: [time-nuts] Top Posting Clarified - Hopefully

2011-05-25 Thread Scott Stansbury
On May 25, 2011, at 3:27 AM, Ken , VK7KRJ wrote: Why is this extra repetition a problem when top-posting, but not a problem when bottom posting The protocol behind bottom posting is to edit the prior text, so that you are only incorporating, and responding to, the appropriate text. Top

[time-nuts] RADI-EPC7 / E1740A / E1725A TIA

2011-05-25 Thread Bob Camp
Hi Does anybody have one of these running? The disk in mine has been wiped and the required drivers don't seem to be out there anywhere. It's an early to mid 1990's VXI based TIA. When it was new it ran Win 98. Single shot noise floor is rated as 100 ps rms. I seem to recall there's a way to

Re: [time-nuts] Top Posting Clarified - Hopefully

2011-05-25 Thread Justin Pinnix
You guys should get out of the dark ages and use a modern mail client. Then it won't matter! I won't name names, but the one I use is popular, has a web front end, keeps all of my mail around in a searchable format (no need to waste your time generating a word doc), squashes out quoted fragments

Re: [time-nuts] What's the best way to double 10 MHz to 20 MHz ?

2011-05-25 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
If the radio's clock can be trimmed with a voltage, why not divide the radio's 20 MHz clock by two and feed the result into the GPSDO in place of the GPSDO's 10 MHz oscillator. -- Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R c...@omen.com www.omen.com Developer of Industrial ZMODEM(Tm) for Embedded

Re: [time-nuts] IEEE Spectrum Magazine interviews one of our own...

2011-05-25 Thread Christopher Quarksnow
About Steven Cherry, here is a famous example of system outage due to leap seconds : http://www.dba-oracle.com/oracle_news/news_leap_second_causing_new_years_rac_node_crashes.htm Also Google Android is plagued with an issue visible on phones like the Motorola Droid or HTC EVO 4G, where the time

Re: [time-nuts] IEEE Spectrum Magazine interviews one of our own...

2011-05-25 Thread Tom Van Baak
Hi Christopher, Thanks for those interesting links. Note PHK's original ACM article is: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1967009 The recent IEEE mention is: http://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/at-work/innovation/does-anybody-really-know-what-time-it-is With audio:

Re: [time-nuts] Top Posting Clarified - Hopefully

2011-05-25 Thread Ken , VK7KRJ
Thanks for the tip Justin- I also found one for Thunderbird called QuoteCollapse- now I get to read just the new bits. On 2011-05-26 03:52, Justin Pinnix wrote: You guys should get out of the dark ages and use a modern mail client. Then it won't matter! I won't name names, but the one I use