[time-nuts] Datum 4065A Cs Tube Response

2014-05-04 Thread Ed Palmer
I'm playing with my first Cs standard. It's a Datum 4065A which appears to have a dead STEL-1173 synthesizer. Before I put too much effort into replacing that, I thought I'd check the tube and see if it has any life left. I've attached a chart showing the response of the central peak. My me

Re: [time-nuts] Need simple test command to verify connection to UT PLUS module

2014-05-04 Thread Hal Murray
wb0...@yahoo.com said: > As I am not using windows, I cannot make use of application program there to > test my interface. I do not wish to implement "NTP" on Linux as my eventual > target is not Linux, it is just my initial test environment. You can use ntpd on Linux for initial testing. You c

[time-nuts] Need simple test command to verify connection to UT PLUS module

2014-05-04 Thread David Feldman
I have interfaced a Motorola Oncore UT PLUS module to my Linux PC via serial port and RS-232 adapter. When I power up the module I see 1 PPS from the pin (currently connected to a LED via current limiting resistor.) The port is set to 9600 bps 8/N/1 but no messages are being seen (I think this

Re: [time-nuts] Low cost GPS module for < 100ns timestamping error

2014-05-04 Thread Jim Lux
On 5/4/14, 11:44 AM, Bob Camp wrote: Hi Well I do have those Sparc machines sitting over in the shed ….. I suspect hauling over the CRT monitor to go with it would be a bit of a pain. I doubt I would win the “low power GPSDO of the year” award with it. Like it or not, once you get to 64 b

Re: [time-nuts] Low cost GPS module for < 100ns timestamping error

2014-05-04 Thread Jim Lux
On 5/4/14, 11:38 AM, Chris Albertson wrote: These guys claim "IEEE-754 FPU". But this is not the board to use for a Posix-like OS. For that you'd want disk controller, networking and so on. Ah, so they did include the FPU: that's handy. Actually, an in-ram file system, along with a decen

Re: [time-nuts] Low cost GPS module for < 100ns timestamping error

2014-05-04 Thread Bob Camp
Hi Well I do have those Sparc machines sitting over in the shed ….. I suspect hauling over the CRT monitor to go with it would be a bit of a pain. I doubt I would win the “low power GPSDO of the year” award with it. Like it or not, once you get to 64 bit math, the “this versus that” hard

Re: [time-nuts] Low cost GPS module for < 100ns timestamping error

2014-05-04 Thread Chris Albertson
These guys claim "IEEE-754 FPU". But this is not the board to use for a Posix-like OS. For that you'd want disk controller, networking and so on. The big advantage of this thing is that it has an Arduino compatible boot loader and pinout so it drops into that environment which is VERY easy f

Re: [time-nuts] Low cost GPS module for < 100ns timestamping error

2014-05-04 Thread Francesco Messineo
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: > Looks like this is all you'd need for most timing projects. Just add your > favorite OCXO and some wire. > > The SPARC (not Spark) is actually a step up from ARM. It was developed by > Sun Microsystems (now Oracle) it is optimized for thin

Re: [time-nuts] Low cost GPS module for < 100ns timestamping error

2014-05-04 Thread Jim Lux
On 5/4/14, 10:07 AM, Bob Camp wrote: Hi Well some of us still have RSX-11M (and RSTS/E) code floating around ….. B As do I, but the stuff I'd actually reuse is pretty OS independent (signal processing code in FORTRAN, and in reality, I'd most likely rewrite it anyway.) I suspect you'll p

Re: [time-nuts] Low cost GPS module for < 100ns timestamping error

2014-05-04 Thread Bob Camp
Hi Well some of us still have RSX-11M (and RSTS/E) code floating around ….. Bob On May 4, 2014, at 12:30 PM, Jim Lux wrote: > On 5/4/14, 8:40 AM, Chris Albertson wrote: >> Looks like this is all you'd need for most timing projects. Just add your >> favorite OCXO and some wire. >> >> The SPA

Re: [time-nuts] Low cost GPS module for < 100ns timestamping error

2014-05-04 Thread Attila Kinali
Moin, On Fri, 02 May 2014 23:54:25 +0100 Tony wrote: > I'm considering designing and building some dataloggers, probably ARM > Cortex based (eg. STM32F4xx), which record the time of infrequent > events, preferably to better than 100ns and if possible better than > 50nS. The data loggers will

Re: [time-nuts] Low cost GPS module for < 100ns timestamping error

2014-05-04 Thread Jim Lux
On 5/4/14, 8:40 AM, Chris Albertson wrote: Looks like this is all you'd need for most timing projects. Just add your favorite OCXO and some wire. The SPARC (not Spark) is actually a step up from ARM. It was developed by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle) it is optimized for things like fast context

Re: [time-nuts] Low cost GPS module for < 100ns timestamping error

2014-05-04 Thread Chris Albertson
Looks like this is all you'd need for most timing projects. Just add your favorite OCXO and some wire. The SPARC (not Spark) is actually a step up from ARM. It was developed by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle) it is optimized for things like fast context switching, multi tasking and so on, all the

Re: [time-nuts] Low cost GPS module for < 100ns timestamping error

2014-05-04 Thread Jim Lux
On 5/2/14, 7:07 PM, Tony wrote: On 03/05/2014 02:07, Edesio Costa e Silva wrote: Welcome! Take a look at NavSpark from SkyTraq (http://www.skytraq.com.tw/). They had an Indiegogo (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/navspark-arduino-compatible-with-gps-gnss-receiver) campaign recently and shoul

Re: [time-nuts] Low cost GPS module for < 100ns timestamping error

2014-05-04 Thread Tony
On 03/05/2014 02:07, Edesio Costa e Silva wrote: Welcome! Take a look at NavSpark from SkyTraq (http://www.skytraq.com.tw/). They had an Indiegogo (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/navspark-arduino-compatible-with-gps-gnss-receiver) campaign recently and should deliver real soon now. The NavSp

Re: [time-nuts] SRS FS700 questions

2014-05-04 Thread GandalfG8
True, but I haven't got that far yet, I'm just trying to establish for now whether or not it's doing what it should be to start with. Regards Nigel GM8PZR In a message dated 04/05/2014 13:51:43 GMT Daylight Time, p...@phk.freebsd.dk writes: In message , gandal...@aol.com writes: >Th

Re: [time-nuts] SRS FS700 questions

2014-05-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message , gandal...@aol.com writes: >Thanks too for the feedback on the LCD backlight, I've found nothing so far > to suggest it should be backlit but it could certainly do with it. You can probably swap the LCD module for one with backlight, it's probably a bog-standard module with HD44780 i

Re: [time-nuts] Wenzel oscillator - L1 value?

2014-05-04 Thread Philip Pemberton
On 24/04/14 23:30, Bob Camp wrote: > There is no difference at all between a 32 pf series crystal and a 32 > pf parallel crystal. They both resonate with a 32 pf load and operate > at exactly the same frequency into that load. Your crystals will work > fine with that circuit. That's good to know.