Re: [time-nuts] HP and other equipment failure

2013-06-16 Thread MailLists
In the classical (transformer -) [bridge] rectifier - storage capacitor configuration, the capacitor charge current is creating short high peaks on the current waveform (and therefor truncate the peaks of the voltage waveform, the distribution circuit resistance being finite), due to the

Re: [time-nuts] HP and other equipment failure - availability

2013-06-16 Thread David Kirkby
On 16 June 2013 01:33, k...@aol.com wrote: Greetings Gentlemen! I have been following the thread on HP equipment repair, as I have a bunch of it and am waiting the inevitable day when something starts to smoke. That being said, I agree with the gentlemen that say fixing is better than

Re: [time-nuts] Spectracom 8170 time clocks simple suggestion

2013-06-16 Thread Bob Camp
Hi On Jun 15, 2013, at 10:38 PM, Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net wrote: li...@rtty.us said: I think spitting the bit out a PC serial port line and running a 74HC series switch would be pretty easy. Less than $10 in parts including the pert board and the time to solder the roughly eight

Re: [time-nuts] Beaglebone NTP server

2013-06-16 Thread Gabs Ricalde
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Doug Calvert dfc-l...@douglasfcalvert.net wrote: Can you explain what is different in this approach versus the traditional gps/pps without needing a custom clocksource? The default kernel uses TIMER2 for its clocksource, and is configured to use the internal

Re: [time-nuts] Carrier meter

2013-06-16 Thread Louis Williams
I'm a little slow in asking, but where can I find this R-390 list? Thanks! Lou, W8INL -Original Message- From: WB6BNQ [mailto:wb6...@cox.net] Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 1:58 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Carrier meter AH-HA,

[time-nuts] Spectracom 8170 is sync'ed to wwvb...

2013-06-16 Thread Burt I. Weiner
Paul, Looking forward to seeing what you did. I'm an old dog and don't seem to learn new tricks such as looking at the other clocks in my shoppe to see what time it is. I keep looking at the 8170. Burt, K6OQK To: Time-nuts time-nuts@febo.com, paul swed paulsw...@gmail.com Subject:

Re: [time-nuts] have 10MHz need 19.5Mhz

2013-06-16 Thread Kasper Pedersen
On 06/02/2013 10:21 PM, Attila Kinali wrote: Another stupid idea: You have a 19.5MHz crystal, probably some odd PLL and a varicap diode lying around: Build a VCXO out of the crystal and lock it to the 10MHz using the PLL. It has been done with an xor gate, a couple of passives, and the

Re: [time-nuts] Carrier meter

2013-06-16 Thread Bob Camp
Hi It's at: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/r-390 Bob On Jun 16, 2013, at 10:42 AM, Louis Williams lawilli...@alum.mit.edu wrote: I'm a little slow in asking, but where can I find this R-390 list? Thanks! Lou, W8INL -Original Message- From: WB6BNQ

Re: [time-nuts] Beaglebone NTP server

2013-06-16 Thread lists
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[time-nuts] raspberry pi, adafruit gps ntp

2013-06-16 Thread folkert
Hi, Ok today my friend Henk (Henk are you still subscribed here?) soldered the raspberry pi on my adafruit ultimate gps breakout v3. Apart from the soldering things were totally easy to get to work: only a few tweaks to cmdline.txt and inittab and the serial data streamed in. I decided _not_ to

[time-nuts] wwvb remodulator schematic for 8170 may not show up on Time-nuts its 2MB

2013-06-16 Thread paul swed
As a heads up it may not get posted will have to wait and see. Regards Paul WB8TSL ___ 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.

[time-nuts] WWVB remodulator for the spectracom 8170 the schematic is to large

2013-06-16 Thread paul swed
OK no schematic. It was 2MB. But it was a scan of my notes. Happy to post to a sight or two. Can include some pictures also. Operation is simple the msa 6180 receives wwvb and in my case I tap off of a wwvb antenna multi-coupler. Output of the 8160 controls inverters that select a 60 Khz clock

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB remodulator for the spectracom 8170 the schematic is to large

2013-06-16 Thread Bob Camp
Hi MSA 6180 or MSA 8160 or …. Bob On Jun 16, 2013, at 5:43 PM, paul swed paulsw...@gmail.com wrote: OK no schematic. It was 2MB. But it was a scan of my notes. Happy to post to a sight or two. Can include some pictures also. Operation is simple the msa 6180 receives wwvb and in my case I

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB remodulator for the spectracom 8170 the schematic is to large

2013-06-16 Thread paul swed
Good catch Bob 6180. Thanks Paul On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Bob Camp li...@rtty.us wrote: Hi MSA 6180 or MSA 8160 or …. Bob On Jun 16, 2013, at 5:43 PM, paul swed paulsw...@gmail.com wrote: OK no schematic. It was 2MB. But it was a scan of my notes. Happy to post to a sight or

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB remodulator for the spectracom 8170 the schematic is to large

2013-06-16 Thread Bob Camp
Hi It's been at least 10 minutes since I've made a similar mistake on the list …. Bob On Jun 16, 2013, at 6:39 PM, paul swed paulsw...@gmail.com wrote: Good catch Bob 6180. Thanks Paul On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Bob Camp li...@rtty.us wrote: Hi MSA 6180 or MSA 8160 or ….

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB remodulator for the spectracom 8170 the schematic is to large

2013-06-16 Thread Bob Camp
Hi Next in on the same line … MSA or MAS? I assume it's: http://www.mas-oy.com/products/radio-controlled-clock-rcc/mas6180/ Which would make it a MAS 6180 or it's dual band relative the MAS6181 Bob On Jun 16, 2013, at 6:39 PM, paul swed paulsw...@gmail.com wrote: Good catch Bob 6180.

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB remodulator for the spectracom 8170 the schematic is to large

2013-06-16 Thread paul swed
Yes it is I would have sent the pdf but thats larger than 125 KB limit for time nuts. Regards Paul. On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Bob Camp li...@rtty.us wrote: Hi Next in on the same line … MSA or MAS? I assume it's: http://www.mas-oy.com/products/radio-controlled-clock-rcc/mas6180/

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB remodulator for the spectracom 8170 the schematic is to large

2013-06-16 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 05:43:18PM -0400, paul swed wrote: OK no schematic. It was 2MB. But it was a scan of my notes. Happy to post to a sight or two. Can include some pictures also. There's a copy here for those that are interested:

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB remodulator for the spectracom 8170 the schematic is to large

2013-06-16 Thread Bob Camp
Hi You could get rid of the inverter and nand gate by using an XOR (74HC86) gate. You'd save at least 5 cents …. Bob On Jun 16, 2013, at 8:24 PM, Majdi S. Abbas m...@latt.net wrote: On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 05:43:18PM -0400, paul swed wrote: OK no schematic. It was 2MB. But it was a scan of

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB remodulator for the spectracom 8170 the schematic is to large

2013-06-16 Thread paul swed
Majdi Thanks I will take some pix tomorrow work permitting and forward. Its dead bug style so not pretty. But it sure does work. Regards and thanks again Paul On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Bob Camp li...@rtty.us wrote: Hi You could get rid of the inverter and nand gate by using an XOR

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB remodulator for the spectracom 8170 the schematic is to large

2013-06-16 Thread paul swed
Did take both lo-res and hi-res at 2 MB each. The low res are not that useful 3-4 of the hi-res will tell you a lot. However please resist the critiques on the dead bugs. :-) Regards Paul. On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 9:08 PM, paul swed paulsw...@gmail.com wrote: Majdi Thanks I will take some pix

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB remodulator for the spectracom 8170 the schematic is to large

2013-06-16 Thread ken johnson
Also now on my web site, http://www.vk7krj.com/ham_stuff.htm at the bottom of the page, along with some other time-nut type files. And, once again, if anyone has any other time-nut files they would like to see hosted on a web page, I am happy to oblige. Just email me. On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at