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

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

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 csteinm...@yandex.com 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

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 magnus@... 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] 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 csteinm...@yandex.com 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.

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 csteinm...@yandex.com wrote: Dave wrote: Yes, but I was

Re: [time-nuts] schematics of frequency counter

2015-01-08 Thread Li Ang
is 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

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 looked

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 gign...@gmail.com: I

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 UTC