[time-nuts] DDS, OCXO and ADEV

2015-05-02 Thread d0ct0r
Hello, I would like to create some charts for ADEV for following setup: HP5386A counter connected to External REF. (OCXO). The input of counter connected to my DDS VFO. The frequency on VFO is 2853000 Hz. Here is what I got from counter via GPIB: S +3.505082408E-7 S +3.505082408E-7 S +3.50

Re: [time-nuts] Important parameters for a GPS/GNSS antenna

2015-05-02 Thread Tom Van Baak
> A tri-band antenna design is... uh.. difficult. > At the moment I am just playing with some software. Yes, I might > end up with something that resembles an antenna design. But with my level of > knowledge getting a good single band antenna would be already quite > some feat. Designing a multi-ba

Re: [time-nuts] Important parameters for a GPS/GNSS antenna

2015-05-02 Thread Bob Camp
Hi Obviously this becomes a “that depends” sort of question. For timing, you probably can do a fine job with an antenna that nukes everything below 20 degrees to the horizon. That *assumes* that you have a good enough view that it does not pull to many sat’s out of your population *and* that

Re: [time-nuts] Important parameters for a GPS/GNSS antenna

2015-05-02 Thread Magnus Danielson
Attila, On 04/29/2015 10:43 PM, Attila Kinali wrote: Moin, I recently discovered openEMS[1], which is, very simply put, a fancy antenna simulator. I played a little with it and thought about trying to optimize an GPS patch antenna design for timing use. Will take it for a test-drive to see ho

Re: [time-nuts] TrueTime AL-AK GPS receiver help

2015-05-02 Thread Bob Camp
Hi If you want to dig into something like this to learn and to maybe fiddle with a downconverter design - sure, that’s a great thing to do. It’s a hobby and (hopefully) you are set up to handle the task. You probably are already a member of a list (or three) where you have access to info on yo

Re: [time-nuts] TrueTime AL-AK GPS receiver help

2015-05-02 Thread Bob Camp
Hi Remember - a number of these boxes go *way* back in time GPS wise. Often the basic guts were a mix and match affair and this or that sub-system was frozen for a decade or more. At this late date, figuring out why they did that, or why they had multiple sub-systems is going to be tough. I sus