Re: [time-nuts] Just for Fun - Synergy Systems SSR-6T PPS Comparison

2012-12-19 Thread Gabs Ricalde
The Synergy site doesn't list the SSR-6Tr but I found a datasheet here: http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/finally-a-relatively-inexpensive-u-blox-lea-6t-board-in-the-us ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.fe

Re: [time-nuts] Just for Fun - Synergy Systems SSR-6T PPS Comparison

2012-12-19 Thread David J Taylor
A Day in the Life of Five PPS Sources.. This probably does not qualify as a regular TimeNuts submission as there are no Tau's or 10^-12ths but I could not resist a simple scope capture of the Pulse Per Second output of my new SSR-6t toy from Synergy Systems as it performed its first right-out-of-

Re: [time-nuts] Just for Fun - Synergy Systems SSR-6T PPS Comparison

2012-12-19 Thread Don Latham
Hi David: I got my new SSR-6T today, quite prompt. I can't find a darn thing about pinout or anything else on the Synergy site, nor can I produce anything from Boogle. Where did you find the info? I have a call in to Synergy, but I'm just wondering... Thanks Don David Martin > A Day in the Life of

Re: [time-nuts] A Day in the Life of Five PPS Sources..

2012-12-19 Thread David Martin
The video permissions should be fixed so it is no longer "private" ... Sorry A Day in the Life of Five PPS Sources.. See http://youtu.be/kOG9ImT2lvY This is video is a two minute replay of the PPS behavior of two PRS-10s, two TBolts, and the SSR-6t during it's initial 24 hou

Re: [time-nuts] OT: Mayans

2012-12-19 Thread mike cook
>> >> Please help. It is not like you have plans for the weekend. >> > > Keep calm, carry on.. Coincidence and timely advice from lady heather: Just noted that the last date of the current long date cycle, 19.19.17.19, happens in GPS week 1719. <> <> ___

Re: [time-nuts] Just for Fun - Synergy Systems SSR-6T PPS Comparison

2012-12-19 Thread mike cook
Le 20 déc. 2012 à 07:07, David Martin a écrit : > http://youtu.be/kOG9ImT2lvY It wouldn't open for me... private ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow t

[time-nuts] Just for Fun - Synergy Systems SSR-6T PPS Comparison

2012-12-19 Thread David Martin
A Day in the Life of Five PPS Sources.. This probably does not qualify as a regular TimeNuts submission as there are no Tau's or 10^-12ths but I could not resist a simple scope capture of the Pulse Per Second output of my new SSR-6t toy from Synergy Systems as it performed its first right-out-of-t

Re: [time-nuts] Z3805A cooling requirements?

2012-12-19 Thread Erno Peres
Hi Said, just additional question: did the DC current increased when you started to blow air You should run this test / blowing air / minimum 24 hrs.or longer! Rgds Ernie. -Original Message- From: SAIDJACK To: time-nuts Sent: Thu, Dec 20, 2012 3:57 am Subject: Re:

Re: [time-nuts] Is now the timepod a symmetricom product ?

2012-12-19 Thread shalimr9
I was too lazy to look them up, linking the miles.io web site was simpler :) Sent from my Droid Razr 4G LTE wireless tracker. -Original Message- From: Rex To: time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 4:27 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Is now the timepod a symmetricom product ? This is

Re: [time-nuts] Sidereal Time and Lady Heather.

2012-12-19 Thread Bill Beam
On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:39:21 +1100, Neville Michie wrote: >I have just found out how to get sidereal time from Lady Heather. >(You put t=GMST in the command line, or alias target line, and >the Lady comes up in Sidereal Time, ticking away in Sidereal seconds.) >(Also you can get LMST, LAST or GAS

[time-nuts] Sidereal Time and Lady Heather.

2012-12-19 Thread Neville Michie
I have just found out how to get sidereal time from Lady Heather. (You put t=GMST in the command line, or alias target line, and the Lady comes up in Sidereal Time, ticking away in Sidereal seconds.) (Also you can get LMST, LAST or GAST.) Now, as a time nut, I have questions. How is a leap second

Re: [time-nuts] Z3805A cooling requirements?

2012-12-19 Thread SAIDJACK
Not sure about that, if you look at the frequency plot after ~20 minutes in moving air the frequency was still extremely close to 10.00MHz.. to within <1E-011 of 10MHz. This is a free-running 10811. Compare that to the plot of the OCXO I had sent out some hours ago when it was running s

Re: [time-nuts] Z3805A cooling requirements?

2012-12-19 Thread Tom Knox
I think the data shows that the heaters were losing ground, which would explain the steadily falling temp of the SC cut quartz. Thomas Knox From: saidj...@aol.com Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 21:28:15 -0500 To: time-nuts@febo.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Z3805A cooling requirements? Bob, I did

Re: [time-nuts] noisy varactor diodes

2012-12-19 Thread John Miles
> -Original Message- > From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts- > boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of li...@lazygranch.com > Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 4:56 PM > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] noisy varactor diodes > > Bu

Re: [time-nuts] OT: Mayans

2012-12-19 Thread Jim Lux
On 12/19/12 4:12 PM, Sanjeev Gupta wrote: On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Tom Knox wrote: Does anyone have ideas on how I can trigger my camera to capture the "end of the world" roll over on my clocks. I need to know something even more basic: Did the Mayans correct for leap seconds? N

Re: [time-nuts] noisy varactor diodes

2012-12-19 Thread lists
But putting the diodes in series should increase the noise. They are noncorrelated, so I would say increase the noise in a RMS fashion. HP has made at least one radio with switched varactors in the prefilter. They made a SIGINT rack for I presume three letter agencies, though it was in the cat

Re: [time-nuts] Z3805A cooling requirements?

2012-12-19 Thread Bob Camp
Hi Ok, what happens if you keep the air gun in the exact same position and let it stabilize for an hour with no insulation around the OCXO ? Bob On Dec 19, 2012, at 7:24 PM, saidj...@aol.com wrote: > Hi Bob, et. al., > > this discussion prompted my interest to see how a 10811-600160 unit that

Re: [time-nuts] Brooks Shera

2012-12-19 Thread Azelio Boriani
The 1998 Shera QST article was also my first reading about GPSDO. In 1999 we were using the Epsilon OEM board GPSDO from Temex for the first terrestrial DVB single frequency network trials. On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 10:33 PM, paul swed wrote: > Bert > Thank you for reaching out to Brook and his wi

Re: [time-nuts] Z3805A cooling requirements?

2012-12-19 Thread SAIDJACK
Hi Bob, et. al., this discussion prompted my interest to see how a 10811-600160 unit that we have sitting here on the bench would react to airflow changes. I had a thin layer of anti-static shipping material around the unit, and I opened up one side of that layer and then pushed air into th

Re: [time-nuts] OT: Mayans

2012-12-19 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Tom Knox wrote: > > Does anyone have ideas on how I can trigger my camera to capture the "end > of the world" roll over on my clocks. > I need to know something even more basic: Did the Mayans correct for leap seconds? As I seem to be the only one around withou

Re: [time-nuts] noisy varactor diodes

2012-12-19 Thread John Miles
> The HP sceme in the patent refers to an array of series and parallel > diodes to reduce noise. > > Just paralleling them does not reduce the noise! Still, the patent claims seem pretty obvious. Paralleling n diodes would reduce their noise contribution by the usual 3 dB * log2(n) factor, but w

Re: [time-nuts] noisy varactor diodes

2012-12-19 Thread lists
Paralleling devices reduces noise. Why do you think otherwise? Noise will be reduced by the square root of the number of devices you parallel. -Original Message- From: cdel...@juno.com Sender: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:43:02 To: Reply-To: Discussion of precise

[time-nuts] noisy varactor diodes

2012-12-19 Thread cdelect
The HP sceme in the patent refers to an array of series and parallel diodes to reduce noise. Just paralleling them does not reduce the noise! The 4 paralleled in the 5065 are to give enough phase deviation for the low modulation level applied. (150mv) The symptom was a fluctuating 2nd harmonic

Re: [time-nuts] OT: Mayans

2012-12-19 Thread Rex
Ha, ha. That brightened my afternoon. On 12/19/2012 9:13 AM, J. Forster wrote: -John === [Cartoon] ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow

Re: [time-nuts] Is now the timepod a symmetricom product ?

2012-12-19 Thread Rex
This is a sign that people can't digest all the messages on time-nuts. There was this... http://www.mail-archive.com/time-nuts@febo.com/msg53586.html (thread replies included John) and this... http://www.mail-archive.com/time-nuts@febo.com/msg53811.html On 12/19/2012 1:29 PM, Didier Juges wrot

Re: [time-nuts] Brooks Shera

2012-12-19 Thread paul swed
Bert Thank you for reaching out to Brook and his wife. I agree that the QST article that Brook wrote really did change the capabilities that Amateur time keepers and Radio Operators have access to. I am very sad to hear the reason why he has been un-responsive. Thanks again for sharing this sad new

Re: [time-nuts] Noisy varactor diodes

2012-12-19 Thread Didier Juges
Actually I have had better success with Zener diodes. The 1N47xx series in particular I have used up to VHF with good results. Take a diode with a zener voltage specification 20% above your operating voltage and it may just work. Didier KO4BB On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Robert LaJeunesse <

Re: [time-nuts] Is now the timepod a symmetricom product ?

2012-12-19 Thread Didier Juges
You may have noticed that the miles.io URL now redirects to the Symmetricom page. That would be a clue :) Didier On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 2:56 AM, Timeok wrote: > see : http://www.symmetricom.com/lp/**gbu/email/phase-noise-test-** > probe-landing-page/?emailid=**3120A_Launch_Email_Quote

Re: [time-nuts] Brooks Shera

2012-12-19 Thread EWKehren
Some how time nuts combined two lines it is Karen Stoll46 Crazy Rabbit Rd Santa Fee, NM 87508 In a message dated 12/19/2012 3:55:33 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, ewkeh...@aol.com writes: Brooks Shera has been a major contributor with his GPSDO. Before Tbolts where affordable

[time-nuts] Brooks Shera

2012-12-19 Thread EWKehren
Brooks Shera has been a major contributor with his GPSDO. Before Tbolts where affordable his QST article for the first time opened the door for many amateurs to precision frequency at an affordable price. Over the years I build many units. For a year I have tried to buy his latest version

[time-nuts] ANN: UK GPS Jamming Notice update

2012-12-19 Thread David J Taylor
Folks, I have received the following __ NOTIFICATION OF GPS JAMMING EXERCISE: HEBRIDES RANGES, 8 to 12 April 2013 Dates. Between 8 and 12 April 13 Times. Between 10.00 to 12.00 GMT and 14.00 to 16.00 GMT daily. Location of jammer. The

Re: [time-nuts] OT: Mayans

2012-12-19 Thread Bob Camp
Hi A lot depends on what sort of camera you have. The easy way is to just shoot video and then grab the frame you want after the fact. Bob -Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Tom Knox Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 12:2

Re: [time-nuts] OT: Mayans

2012-12-19 Thread Tom Knox
Does anyone have ideas on how I can trigger my camera to capture the "end of the world" roll over on my clocks. Thomas Knox Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:13:34 -0800 From: j...@quikus.com To: Time-Nuts@febo.com Subject: [time-nuts] OT: Mayans -John ===

[time-nuts] OT: Mayans

2012-12-19 Thread J. Forster
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[time-nuts] Is now the timepod a symmetricom product ?

2012-12-19 Thread Timeok
see : http://www.symmetricom.com/lp/gbu/email/phase-noise-test-probe-landing-page/?emailid=3120A_Launch_Email_Quote it seem the same KE5FX product. timeok ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/