Re: [time-nuts] Trimble Thunderbolt 1pps

2014-01-03 Thread Graeme Zimmer
> Unless you bring the 1pps in and synchronize with that, you are probably better off just running NTP. Yes, that is the idea. I often don't have access to the Internet when running WSPR. eg when operating portable in remote areas or marine. Thanks . Zim __

Re: [time-nuts] Trimble Thunderbolt 1pps

2014-01-03 Thread Chris Albertson
Where those using the cat-5 wire as a twisted pair? If sothat's "cheating" I was truing to send an RS232 signal down a cat 5 cable. That means Tx, Rx Gnd and DCD. You need four wires for that, ethernet uses the other two pair.I was using the pairs Ethernet does not use. The solution was to

Re: [time-nuts] Trimble Thunderbolt 1pps

2014-01-03 Thread Brian Lloyd
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Graeme Zimmer wrote: > > Can you tell me which (Windows) time synch programs can use the 1PPS on > DCD of the RS232 interface please? > > To answer my own question: > > Here's one... > http://www.visualgps.net/NMEATime/default.htm > > There are a few others listed a

Re: [time-nuts] Trimble Thunderbolt 1pps

2014-01-03 Thread Graeme Zimmer
> Can you tell me which (Windows) time synch programs can use the 1PPS on DCD of the RS232 interface please? To answer my own question: Here's one... http://www.visualgps.net/NMEATime/default.htm There are a few others listed at http://www.gpskit.nl/links-en.htm Zim

Re: [time-nuts] Trimble Thunderbolt 1pps

2014-01-03 Thread Graeme Zimmer
Interesting discussion re getting the 1PPS into a PC to synchronise a timing program. I use WSPR for ham radio and was wondering how to do this. Can you tell me which (Windows) time synch programs can use the 1PPS on DCD of the RS232 interface please? Next step would be to build a variable de

Re: [time-nuts] Hp 5060A C-field

2014-01-03 Thread paul swed
Tom and Corby Thanks for the help. I suspect that the 5060/5061 is perhaps as good as it can get. My other references such as the 3801 and Tbolt have it down now in the 1X10-11 region. Close to 1 but goes above and below. I did find the magical cfield R to be 70 ohms and will have to calculate the

Re: [time-nuts] Trimble Thunderbolt 1pps

2014-01-03 Thread SAIDJACK
Hi Hal, still pretty impressive results, thanks for sharing the data. bye, Said In a message dated 1/3/2014 17:10:13 Pacific Standard Time, hmur...@megapathdsl.net writes: saidj...@aol.com said: > Your plots don't show the wave being reflected by the cable end, and > bouncing back and

Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 114, Issue 3

2014-01-03 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 02/01/14 16:27, BD Systems Inc. wrote: Re: Measuring TV delays There's more delay involved in a live feed than most people assume. Let's start with the live feed or remote. Most live feeds with live crowds will use a 9 - 10 sec delay to avoid FCC issues with language. Only applies to th

Re: [time-nuts] Measuring TV delays

2014-01-03 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 03/01/14 20:01, Glenn Little wrote: At the station that I worked at, time code was recorded in the digital video stream in the camera, but, was only used for editing. The editors would use this time code to mark the segment end points. There was no correlation to the camera time code and actu

Re: [time-nuts] Trimble Thunderbolt 1pps

2014-01-03 Thread Hal Murray
saidj...@aol.com said: > Your plots don't show the wave being reflected by the cable end, and > bouncing back and forth.. Until settling down. Yes. I'll put up some nasty pictures if anybody wants an ugly example. For that set of graphs, I tried to get rid of that sort of junk. I was working

Re: [time-nuts] Trimble Thunderbolt 1pps

2014-01-03 Thread Said Jackson
Hal, Your plots don't show the wave being reflected by the cable end, and bouncing back and forth.. Until settling down. Without an end-termination the improperly terminated output of the Thunderbolt will cause the signal to bounce back and forth.. If there is a 50 ohms termination, there won'

Re: [time-nuts] Trimble Thunderbolt 1pps

2014-01-03 Thread Hal Murray
albertson.ch...@gmail.com said: > The "line driver" was a TTL inverter chip I was going through about 50 or > 60 feet of cat-5 wire. TTL level serial is always marginal, the specs say it > should not work but it does work most of the time. Modern CMOS chips work much better than real TTL. Some

Re: [time-nuts] Trimble Thunderbolt 1pps

2014-01-03 Thread Attila Kinali
On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 13:12:52 -0800 Chris Albertson wrote: > The TTL level PPS did not work for me when I tried to drive a long cable. > I used the MAX232 level converter chip to level shift. > > Do check the polarity. If you get it wrong it will appear to work but the > timing will biased by th

Re: [time-nuts] Trimble Thunderbolt 1pps

2014-01-03 Thread Chris Albertson
The "line driver" was a TTL inverter chip I was going through about 50 or 60 feet of cat-5 wire. TTL level serial is always marginal, the specs say it should not work but it does work most of the time. I found a soave of DB9 connectors that have built-in MAX232 chips on ebay for under $5. I use

[time-nuts] Time Protocol Simulation Module

2014-01-03 Thread JULIAN TOPOLSKI
Googling wwvb simulator I found this interesting module: The “Chronvertor” Time Protocol Simulation Module(Released February 2013) The Chronvertor is a module containing a very accurate battery backed Maxim DS3231 RTC (Real Time Clock) chip working with a Microchip PIC Microcontroller to out

Re: [time-nuts] WWV Simulator Programs

2014-01-03 Thread Bob Albert
Basically you just need an amplifier centered on 60 kHz. On Friday, January 3, 2014 10:42 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote: I'd like to see a WWVB generator that could output the 60 KHz WWVB signal through a sound card for the benefit of hard of hearing "atomic" clocks by Oregon Scientific

Re: [time-nuts] Trimble Thunderbolt 1pps

2014-01-03 Thread Hal Murray
albertson.ch...@gmail.com said: > The TTL level PPS did not work for me when I tried to drive a long cable. > I used the MAX232 level converter chip to level shift. Thanks. How long was the cable? How solid was the driver? (How much of the problem was long cable vs weak driver?) -- Thes

Re: [time-nuts] Trimble Thunderbolt 1pps

2014-01-03 Thread Chris Albertson
The TTL level PPS did not work for me when I tried to drive a long cable. I used the MAX232 level converter chip to level shift. Do check the polarity. If you get it wrong it will appear to work but the timing will biased by the pulse width. (the falling edges is used if you get it wrong. RS-2

[time-nuts] WWVB "repeater" (was: WWV Simulator Programs)

2014-01-03 Thread Clint Turner
Sometime in the late 1990s, a friend of mine who works for a local city government asked me if there was something that I could do about some WWVB clocks located in a conference room, downtown, on a middle floor of an office building amongst computers and fluorescent lights that never managed t

Re: [time-nuts] Trimble Thunderbolt 1pps

2014-01-03 Thread Hal Murray
> Does the Trimble Thunderbolt provide 1pps on DCD of the RS232 interface? No, but you can open it up and add a wire. That will give you CMOS rather than RS232, but it works. (Or at least, it works for me and I've never heard a good story where it didn't work.) One problem is that the PPS sig

Re: [time-nuts] HP 5060A C-field

2014-01-03 Thread paul swed
Corby it is a 5061a with a 5060 tube in it that has a few Cs leftover. (Original 004 tube was seriously empty) Had to create a new oven controller to get to those Cs its temperature is slightly elevated over what the 5061a could do. I can just see beam current at maybe .25 of a tick mark above zero

Re: [time-nuts] Measuring TV delays

2014-01-03 Thread Glenn Little
At the station that I worked at, time code was recorded in the digital video stream in the camera, but, was only used for editing. The editors would use this time code to mark the segment end points. There was no correlation to the camera time code and actual time. When we taped a show from a fe

Re: [time-nuts] WWV/WWVH audio simulator?

2014-01-03 Thread Jim Cotton
I have played WWV or CHU when I want to know the time but not be bothered by extraneous sounds. I live in Michigan, USA. When I built my first homebrew RF spectrum analyzer I found that I had to spend a week stopping CHU and another local AM station from coming in on the power line. A cheap

Re: [time-nuts] WWV Simulator Programs

2014-01-03 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX
I'd like to see a WWVB generator that could output the 60 KHz WWVB signal through a sound card for the benefit of hard of hearing "atomic" clocks by Oregon Scientific and others. On 01/03/2014 10:32 AM, JULIAN TOPOLSKI wrote: A Google search found this web page that has 2 simulator programs:

[time-nuts] WWV Simulator Programs

2014-01-03 Thread JULIAN TOPOLSKI
A Google search found this web page that has 2 simulator programs: http://www.atkielski.com/main/FreeSoftware.html Enjoy! Julian KR5J ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to h

Re: [time-nuts] WWV/WWVH audio simulator?

2014-01-03 Thread Brian Lloyd
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Bob Albert wrote: > Jayson, > > I chuckle because WWV is my favorite radio station also. > > > Why not tune it in on a good day and record the audio? Then you can > digitize it on the computer and have a .WAV file which you can play any > time. > > Trouble is, if

Re: [time-nuts] Measuring TV delays

2014-01-03 Thread Magnus Danielson
David, On 03/01/14 16:28, David J Taylor wrote: From: Magnus Danielson There are several potential time-signals, but I would say it would be a bit hard to verify their traceability, which makes the exercise difficult. The MPEG-2 Transport Stream have PID timestamps for every channel. However,

Re: [time-nuts] Hp 5060A C-field

2014-01-03 Thread Tom Van Baak (lab)
Hi Paul, About cesium clocks: hp 5060A and early versions of the hp 5061A needed to be able to keep *either* atomic time (true, accurate, stable, SI seconds) or astronomical time (inaccurate, unstable, slow, and gradually slowing, earth rotation time). The larger C-field range allowed this use

Re: [time-nuts] WWV/WWVH audio simulator?

2014-01-03 Thread Bob Albert
Jayson, I chuckle because WWV is my favorite radio station also. Why not tune it in on a good day and record the audio?  Then you can digitize it on the computer and have a .WAV file which you can play any time. Trouble is, if you have recorded the announcements, you won't have the correct ti

Re: [time-nuts] Trimble Thunderbolt 1pps

2014-01-03 Thread Brian Lloyd
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Chris Albertson wrote: > No. The serial port is just three wires, the PPS signal is TTL level on > one of the BNC connectors.You will have to level sift it to re-232 > voltage levels and then make a costom cable > Thank you. No problem. Just seemed like a log

Re: [time-nuts] Trimble Thunderbolt 1pps

2014-01-03 Thread Chris Albertson
No. The serial port is just three wires, the PPS signal is TTL level on one of the BNC connectors.You will have to level sift it to re-232 voltage levels and then make a costom cable On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 7:50 AM, Brian Lloyd wrote: > Does the Trimble Thunderbolt provide 1pps on DCD of th

Re: [time-nuts] WWV/WWVH audio simulator?

2014-01-03 Thread Chris Albertson
Two ideas (1) buy a WWV receiver or (2) I'm sure Windows must come with something like Apple's "Garage Band" (I don't know about Windows) but use that to compose a sound that plays in an endless loop. Likely you'd use one of the drum machines. Basically I'm saying yu can treat it as music and th

[time-nuts] WWV/WWVH audio simulator?

2014-01-03 Thread Jayson Smith
Hello, Brand new to this list. I'm blind, but have always been fascinated with time, time standards, timezones, etc. As a kid, WWV used to be my favorite radio station, no kidding! My dad would let me listen to it for hours on his ham radio, and eventually I got a shortwave radio of my own. I

[time-nuts] HP 5060A C-field

2014-01-03 Thread cdelect
Paul, First off, is it a 5060A or 5061A? More C-field current increases frequency. You can check the synthesizer frequency, It should be 12.6317716 or 12.6317725 Mhz. Either one is OK as you select the A15 resistor to center the C-field pot anyway. Here is info from an earlier post. The zeem

Re: [time-nuts] Trimble: Using RS-232 via with USB adapter

2014-01-03 Thread Russ Ramirez
> Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 17:10:33 +1100 > From: Graeme Zimmer > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > > Subject: [time-nuts] Trimble: Using RS-232 via with USB adapter > Message-ID: <52c65459.1000...@wideband.net.au> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=IS

Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 114, Issue 7

2014-01-03 Thread BD Systems Inc.
Re: Measuring TV Delays With regard to: "On 02/01/14 20:33, Bill Hawkins wrote: > IIRC, the reason why NTSC has an almost 30 fps rate is that early > vacuum tube TV sets could develop heater-cathode leakage that > would put a black "hum bar" in the picture. Almost 30 allows the > bar to move throu

Re: [time-nuts] Hp 5060A C-field

2014-01-03 Thread paul swed
Corby Having a good time tinkering with the 5061. Did change the resistors for the cfield regulator so that its much close to the schematic and am experimenting with that. The system does seems to be able to be tuned through a stable position that reduces the drift to 2 min/10ns drift and the CS is

[time-nuts] Trimble Thunderbolt 1pps

2014-01-03 Thread Brian Lloyd
Does the Trimble Thunderbolt provide 1pps on DCD of the RS232 interface? -- Brian Lloyd, WB6RQN/J79BPL 706 Flightline Drive Spring Branch, TX 78070 br...@lloyd.com +1.916.877.5067 ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to ht

Re: [time-nuts] Measuring TV delays

2014-01-03 Thread David J Taylor
From: Magnus Danielson There are several potential time-signals, but I would say it would be a bit hard to verify their traceability, which makes the exercise difficult. The MPEG-2 Transport Stream have PID timestamps for every channel. However, there is really no good TAI/UTC traceability in th

Re: [time-nuts] Measuring TV delays

2014-01-03 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 03/01/14 15:05, David J Taylor wrote: There seems to be a mis-perception that folk might estimate a fixed delay and somehow use the data as a source of time. That was certainly never my thinking, but simply to observe the delays, and see what values might be obtained. I've contributed one, r

Re: [time-nuts] Measuring TV delays

2014-01-03 Thread David J Taylor
From: Magnus Danielson Since you don't know the distribution and de-coding and trans-coding delays, it's hopeless to come up with a skewed time to fit all. Forget it. The mode is rather to live with the delay there is. Cheers, Magnus === There seems to be a mis-perceptio

Re: [time-nuts] Trimble: Using RS-232 via with USB adapter

2014-01-03 Thread David J Taylor
From: Graeme Zimmer Hi folks, This has probably been covered before, but I thought it worth knowing I wanted to use my new laptop with my Trimble/Nortel GSP receiver. As my laptop doesn't have an RS-232 port, I purchased a cheap USB to RS-232 adaptor. After a few false starts I found that

Re: [time-nuts] Measuring TV delays

2014-01-03 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 03/01/14 10:04, David J Taylor wrote: From: Chris Albertson When they broadcast "live" TV like from a sports vent I wonder if the time code generated by the camera is preserved? But then even if it were the time might have been set manually to match the display on the camera operator's cell

Re: [time-nuts] Trimble: Using RS-232 via with USB adapter

2014-01-03 Thread Graeme Zimmer
Sorry, that doesn't make much sense, does it... I just realised that TrimbleStudio is not just USB. It runs quiet happily with RS-232 . Zim ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi

[time-nuts] Trimble: Using RS-232 via with USB adapter

2014-01-03 Thread Graeme Zimmer
Hi folks, This has probably been covered before, but I thought it worth knowing I wanted to use my new laptop with my Trimble/Nortel GSP receiver. As my laptop doesn't have an RS-232 port, I purchased a cheap USB to RS-232 adaptor. After a few false starts I found that the older Tboltmon

Re: [time-nuts] Measuring TV delays

2014-01-03 Thread Magnus Danielson
Bill, On 02/01/14 20:33, Bill Hawkins wrote: IIRC, the reason why NTSC has an almost 30 fps rate is that early vacuum tube TV sets could develop heater-cathode leakage that would put a black "hum bar" in the picture. Almost 30 allows the bar to move through the picture in a 60 Hz power distribut

Re: [time-nuts] Measuring TV delays

2014-01-03 Thread David J Taylor
From: Chris Albertson When they broadcast "live" TV like from a sports vent I wonder if the time code generated by the camera is preserved? But then even if it were the time might have been set manually to match the display on the camera operator's cell phone. Same for scenes with clacks in the