Re: [time-nuts] Any reason not to use one power amplifier and splitter for distribution amplifier?

2015-01-08 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 7 Jan 2015 01:24, "Charles Steinmetz" wrote: > > Dave wrote: > >> At 50 MHz, the loss from the common port is 12.8 dB, and the isolation >> between two ports sets of ports is either 38 or 48 dB > > > To get the worst-case output-to-output isolation, you need to test two output ports that are el

Re: [time-nuts] Milliren 260-0544-C

2015-01-08 Thread paul swed
Bert You are correct those have no EFC. They do appear to be a good grade oscillator for $15. Regards Paul WB8TSL On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Bert Kehren via time-nuts < time-nuts@febo.com> wrote: > Are those not the ones that have no EFC > > > In a message dated 1/7/2015 3:02:20 P.M. Eastern

Re: [time-nuts] schematics of frequency counter

2015-01-08 Thread Li Ang
Magnus Danielson writes: > > Hi, > > Darn, not reading all the notes. Again. > > Well, in that case, scaling should be done... then you get average of > 198,5075 ns and 149,8 ps RMS jitter, with 1,1 ns peak-to-peak. > > The jitter is okish then, but a little better would indeed be nice. > >

Re: [time-nuts] schematics of frequency counter

2015-01-08 Thread Li Ang
uploaded to http://www.qsl.net/b/bi7lnq//freqcntv4/test/20150108/tdc_stddev.xls The configuration of tdc-gp22 is now: Register_0 = 0x00c42700, //Register_1 = 0x19498000, //stop2-stop1 Register_1 = 0x01418000,//0x01418000, //stop1-start, Register_2 = 0xe000, Register_3

Re: [time-nuts] Any reason not to use one power amplifier and splitter for distribution amplifier?

2015-01-08 Thread Charles Steinmetz
Dave wrote: Yes, but I was aware of this, and that's why I got two different isolation figures. What I was pointing out is that there will be *4* different isolation figures from any one output port, not just two. The lowest will be to the one electrically adjacent output, next (a bit highe

Re: [time-nuts] Any reason not to use one power amplifier and splitter for distribution amplifier?

2015-01-08 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 8 January 2015 at 10:03, Charles Steinmetz wrote: > Dave wrote: > >> Yes, but I was aware of this, and that's why I got two different isolation >> figures. > > > What I was pointing out is that there will be *4* different isolation > figures from any one output port, not just two. The lowest w

Re: [time-nuts] Any reason not to use one power amplifier and splitter for distribution amplifier?

2015-01-08 Thread paul swed
Charles is absolutely correct this is what I have seen in these large splitters. I have a really nice one that you can take the cover off and look. Lots of screws. Regards Paul WB8TSL On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 5:03 AM, Charles Steinmetz wrote: > Dave wrote: > > Yes, but I was aware of this, and th

Re: [time-nuts] June 30 2015 leap second

2015-01-08 Thread Hal Murray
t...@patoka.org said: > The question is how usually GPS modules handle leap seconds ? Is it > satelates who send UTC time to GPS module or GPS module has firmware with > leap second information hard-coded ? The satellites send GPS time with a low bandwidth footnote that provides the offset to U

Re: [time-nuts] schematics of frequency counter

2015-01-08 Thread Li Ang
Hi Neil Just now, I disconnected TPS79333 from board and used LR6 battery for the analog part of TDC. The result does not show improvement. So I think LDO might not be the primary noise contributor. Thanks for the suggestion. 2015-01-03 22:01 GMT+08:00 Neil Schroeder : > I would reconsider

Re: [time-nuts] June 30 2015 leap second

2015-01-08 Thread Mike Cook
> in advance. When either of the two flags is set, the kernel will trigger > the leap event in the last seconds of the current day. GPS should announce > the pending leap second not long after the IERS announcement. I haven't > checked my clocks yet but it may already be out there. I haven’t look

Re: [time-nuts] June 30 2015 leap second

2015-01-08 Thread Chuck Harris
I couldn't help noticing that Debian just issued an update to tzone, so that means Linux systems now know about the leap second. -Chuck Harris Tim Shoppa wrote: I'm not sure there's any computer time package that correctly disambiguates 23:59:59 vs 23:59:60 in UTC timestamps in a general purpos

Re: [time-nuts] VC-OCXO EFC stability.

2015-01-08 Thread ct1dmk
Thank you all for the input. since I have 12v (or 15v) available I will try the LT1027... looks promising, the so8 version with typ 2ppm/C... (or why not the can version for 1ppm/C) Application is OCXO reference for mmWave gear... I just want the resulting 100's of GHz not to drift because of the