[time-nuts] FS: More stuff

2014-05-25 Thread Joseph Gray
Two more items to get rid of. HP 8590A SA. 10 KHz to 1.5 GHz, -115 dBm to +30 dBm. Very clean. The screen has no burn-in and is very bright. It has the tilt handle, but no front cover. Option 21 (GPIB) is installed. HP 54522A scope. 2 GS/s, 500 MHz dual channel. Channel 2 has a bad input

[time-nuts] Fluke 6061A Synth. RF Generator

2014-05-25 Thread Richard Moore
Hi All -- Sorry if this is off-topic, but you all have a lot of experience with equipment. I just picked up a 6061A and I'm happy to say it mostly works. But... at frequencies below 250 MHz, as the frequency output is decreased, the level drops too, and starting from +12dBm (rated out,

Re: [time-nuts] Ublox 7

2014-05-25 Thread Paul
On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 1:26 AM, David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: You can also get the u-blox 7 without the antenna - for example this pre-built unit for the Raspberry Pi, which has an SMA socket: I suspect that even if the target system is a Raspberry PI the critical

Re: [time-nuts] Ublox 7

2014-05-25 Thread David J Taylor
From: Paul I suspect that even if the target system is a Raspberry PI the critical point is the $17 price (including shipping). For precise time frequency, I am surprised that cost is the first consideration, unless you are buying more than a few units!

[time-nuts] GPS week number rollover finally bites Garmin GPS 45XL

2014-05-25 Thread Dave Martindale
A few days ago, I took my collection of obsolete handheld GPS receivers outside and turned them on, to let them find themselves and collect new almanac data. Most of them probably hadn't been turned on for 2 years or more. All of them eventually acquired satellites and started navigating. The

[time-nuts] SSR-6Tr vs Lotus M12M

2014-05-25 Thread Tom Knox
Does anyone have experience with the Synergy SSR-6Tr and the fairly recent Lotus based M12M. It sounds like both are plug and play replacements for the Older M12M's. Both claim improved specs. Both my XLI and FEI Zyfer time and freq rec's use versions of the M12. Does anyone want to weigh in on

Re: [time-nuts] Weather/units question for European members

2014-05-25 Thread Steve Byan
On May 23, 2014, at 11:12 PM, Mark Sims hol...@hotmail.com wrote: The nice thing about measuring temperature via sonic measurements is that the measurements are unaffected by solar heating of the apparatus... it does not need to be in the shade. I stumbled on this paper a while back when I

Re: [time-nuts] SSR-6Tr vs Lotus M12M

2014-05-25 Thread Bob Camp
Hi Newer is always better :)…. The real question is : Did the guys who designed the the hardware and firmware in a 10, 20 or 30 year old box optimize it so that a better GPS would improve the performance of the box? Put another way: 1) Will the software filters tune in a fashion that

[time-nuts] Weather/units question for European members

2014-05-25 Thread Mark Sims
I ran across this very issue when trying to calibrate my barometer chip against the NWS station located less than two miles away. Their numbers for millibars and inches of mercury do not agree. I sent them an email and asked what was going on. They said their instruments read out in

Re: [time-nuts] Weather/units question for European members

2014-05-25 Thread Graham
atmospheric pressure taken for a weather observation is measured in millibars and respresents the barometric pressure at ground level at that location. If the instrument is located somewhere besides ground level it will be corrected to ground level. The value given in inches of mercury is