Re: [time-nuts] Power glitch

2012-06-27 Thread Hal Murray
david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk said: > Thanks for that, Hal. I would set up some monitoring myself except that I > don't have a UPS so even a 16-second outage would not be recorded. Could > use a portable PC, I suppose... We have perhaps one outage every two years > on average, and they last for

Re: [time-nuts] NTPns syslog configuration

2012-06-27 Thread mike cook
Le 28/06/2012 00:28, Stijn Nestra a écrit : Hello, I have build a NTP server using the Soekris and M12 concept and I am using a freebsd image that Jason has made. The problem is that I am a total fbsd noob and that I want the oncore_msg logged on a syslog server. I have tried several things an

[time-nuts] NTPns syslog configuration

2012-06-27 Thread Stijn Nestra
Hello, I have build a NTP server using the Soekris and M12 concept and I am using a freebsd image that Jason has made. The problem is that I am a total fbsd noob and that I want the oncore_msg logged on a syslog server. I have tried several things and I get the messages only on my console. Can

Re: [time-nuts] Advice on good reception for radio clocks

2012-06-27 Thread Robert Atkinson
Hi Tony, I'd try a battery pack instead of the wall-wart. If it's an ebay china special it may be pretty bad. Why are you using DCF rather than MSF? I have an old Radiocode Clocks MSF receiver running in the garage without a problem, I'm in Cambridge too. Many years ago I tried a MSF receiver ba

Re: [time-nuts] Advice on good reception for radio clocks

2012-06-27 Thread Tony Finch
Kasper Pedersen wrote: > > When I did my DCF77 receiver, my first source of interference was the > common noise on the output of the supply I was powering it off of. So I'm using a cheap and cheerful (there's a theme here) wall wart with micro-USB connector which I guess is pretty horrid in this

Re: [time-nuts] Advice on good reception for radio clocks

2012-06-27 Thread Azelio Boriani
Good idea... do you think to use batteries or along the differential line run a power line? Power... only a few mA would be enough. On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: > One trick that works, place the entire receiver. on a pole (black ABS pipe) > fixed to the back yard fence.

Re: [time-nuts] Advice on good reception for radio clocks

2012-06-27 Thread Chris Albertson
One trick that works, place the entire receiver. on a pole (black ABS pipe) fixed to the back yard fence. This places it as far from any house or power line. I don't think the pole needs to be tall. 8 feet get should be enough.Of course now you need a long wire and a pair of RS422 driver chi

Re: [time-nuts] ANN: UK GPS Jamming, Sennybridge, Wales - 2012-Sep-24 .. Oct-05

2012-06-27 Thread lists
This sounds way more complicated than the jamming done by Nellis AFB. Their gear is just a Marconi signal generator, and roof mounted antenna. It can generate two bands of broadband noise (mil and civilian). The gear looks totally COTS to me. They have omni and directional antennas. If the coo

Re: [time-nuts] Advice on good reception for radio clocks

2012-06-27 Thread Azelio Boriani
Yes, this last is exactly my same experience with the DCF77: the receiver used alone with a linear power supply was running fine, connected to the PC or a microproccesor board with a switching power supply was a problem. On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Kasper Pedersen wrote: > On 06/27/2012 04:0

Re: [time-nuts] Advice on good reception for radio clocks

2012-06-27 Thread Kasper Pedersen
On 06/27/2012 04:04 PM, Tony Finch wrote: > Are there any basic steps I should take to improve the reception quality > of a radio clock? I have a cheap and cheerful DCF77 receiver for > connecting to some GPIO pins, but its PPS output is basically noise with > maybe a one-second period. Perhaps it

Re: [time-nuts] Clockwise.

2012-06-27 Thread Tom Van Baak (lab)
Someone asked about the short ADEV tutorial I wrote a few years ago. The text and graphs are at: www.leapsecond.com/pages/adev/ /tvb (iPhone4) On Jun 26, 2012, at 14:32, "Tom Van Baak (lab)" wrote: > With four points one can compute ADEV... > > >

Re: [time-nuts] Advice on good reception for radio clocks

2012-06-27 Thread Tony Finch
Andrew Back wrote: > > I got one of those SYMTRIK modules working but the antenna orientation > did seem a bit fiddly, and this was MSF and not DCF77. > > http://www.designspark.com/content/atomic-time-raspberry-pi > > Don't suppose you're using a Raspberry Pi for this? I'd like to get > this wo

Re: [time-nuts] Advice on good reception for radio clocks

2012-06-27 Thread Andrew Back
Hi Tony, On 27 June 2012 15:04, Tony Finch wrote: > Are there any basic steps I should take to improve the reception quality > of a radio clock? I have a cheap and cheerful DCF77 receiver for > connecting to some GPIO pins, but its PPS output is basically noise with > maybe a one-second period. P

Re: [time-nuts] Advice on good reception for radio clocks

2012-06-27 Thread Brooke Clarke
Hi Tony: The loopstick antenna has a pattern with a couple of nulls so the orientation is important. Also during the daytime there's probably too much noise to receive a good signal so best to listen around local midnight. Have Fun, Brooke Clarke http://www.PRC68.com http://www.end2partygover

[time-nuts] Advice on good reception for radio clocks

2012-06-27 Thread Tony Finch
Are there any basic steps I should take to improve the reception quality of a radio clock? I have a cheap and cheerful DCF77 receiver for connecting to some GPIO pins, but its PPS output is basically noise with maybe a one-second period. Perhaps it's just cheap and nasty. I am in Cambridge. Tony

[time-nuts] ANN: UK GPS Jamming, Sennybridge, Wales - 2012-Sep-24 .. Oct-05

2012-06-27 Thread David J Taylor
Folks, I have received the following notice: __ NOTIFICATION OF A GPS JAMMING EXERCISE SENNYBRIDGE TRAINING AREA, WALES, DURING THE PERIOD 24 SEPTEMBER - 5 OCTOBER 2012 Details of Low Power Jamming. Dates: Between 24-28 September and 1-5 O

Re: [time-nuts] Spoofing GPS

2012-06-27 Thread Azelio Boriani
Interesting this idea: mounting a bottom GPS antenna to check for unexpected signals... and you don't need a complete GPS receiver maybe only a sort of selective field strength meter or something like the codeless GPS receiver used by Vaisala on their radiosondes. On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 6:45 AM,