[time-nuts] Acquired a Symmetricom 5817A-05Q / Power connector Question

2015-05-08 Thread M. George
I took delivery of a Symmetricom 5817A with the 05Q DC power option. The 8 port seems to be going a little less than the 4 ports... not sure on the reasoning there... however I picked it up on the usual auction site for ~125.00 shipped. I thought that was reasonable assuming it works. Anyway, I'

Re: [time-nuts] Why no cheap timing grade GPS antennas?

2015-05-08 Thread Attila Kinali
On Thu, 7 May 2015 12:18:39 -0400 wrote: > Note in the last digest indicated If you are using digest mode, please disable it in the user settings at https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/options/time-nuts It only makes sense if you never intend to reply to any mail and messes up things when you

[time-nuts] Newly acquired SSU-2000 shelf, need some advice.

2015-05-08 Thread Lamar Owen
We have just acquired a used Datum SSU-2000 with a 2E (Rubidium) clock and a 3E (TCXO )clock, as well as a PRS-45A Cesium clock driving a DS1 input card. The system works fine, once I got -48VDC power run to it; the DS1 input locks to the cesium, and the rubidium and ovenized quartz locks to i

[time-nuts] antenna, which to keep?

2015-05-08 Thread W2HX
Hi folks. I am divesting myself of one of my GPS receivers, an old Datum 9390 which works quite well (for my purposes anyway). I am bringing it to Dayton and want to also provide a new owner with an antenna so they can be up and running straight away. I have two antennas and I was wondering whi

Re: [time-nuts] Engineering commands for TymServe 2100

2015-05-08 Thread Esa Heikkinen
Bob Marshall kirjoitti: We have TymServe 2100 units and need the IRIG-B signal. They are > disconnected from GPS and running in free mode. I’ve set the time > via telnet but can only do that within about 250 milliseconds of > the correct time. I see the engineering command “root engineering

Re: [time-nuts] Divider circuit for Rubidium Standard

2015-05-08 Thread Bob Camp
Hi I guess the simple answer is “when you measure them that’s the result”. The slightly more complex answer is “fast silicon CMOS is indeed good, other types may require further analysis”. In general the faster stuff is better than the slower CMOS. Deeper into it you get to the fact that th

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

2015-05-08 Thread Bob Camp
Hi The “put the antenna up and rotate it to see what happens” experiment has indeed been done. The objective was not correcting the antenna’s issues, but validating that their model of the antenna’s phase center was correct. They were trying to see if anechoic chamber data really gave correct a

[time-nuts] Engineering commands for TymServe 2100

2015-05-08 Thread Bob Marshall
We have TymServe 2100 units and need the IRIG-B signal. They are disconnected from GPS and running in free mode. I’ve set the time via telnet but can only do that within about 250 milliseconds of the correct time. I see the engineering command “root engineering timing offset_time” but when I

[time-nuts] Why no cheap timing grade GPS antennas?

2015-05-08 Thread lstoskopf
Note in the last digest indicated that some of the patents run out in 4 years. Looks to me that some plastic stamped choke ring with suitable metallic coating should be cheap in bulk. Finding the phase center might be interesting, but... N0UU ___

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

2015-05-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <554bc3c3.7090...@earthlink.net>, Jim Lux writes: >>> I wonder if anybody ever made a rotating GPS antenna to average out the >>> X-Y phase-center offset ? >> >> There is a severe mechanical problem with that. Moving contacts >> are very hard to keep electrically stable You wo

Re: [time-nuts] Tour of METAS (Swiss Federal Institute of Metrology) time lab: any questions or requests?

2015-05-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <554b6547.5070...@burnicki.net>, Martin Burnicki writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> Ask them how/why the HBG transmitter screwed up the 2006 leapsecond ? > >If I remember correctly then the transmitter would have needed to be >overhauled, which would have been very expensive.

Re: [time-nuts] Divider circuit for Rubidium Standard

2015-05-08 Thread Attila Kinali
On Wed, 06 May 2015 18:09:03 -0700 "Richard (Rick) Karlquist" wrote: > > A standard input on a frequency counter is not a very demanding thing in > > the hierarchy of > > TimeNut signals. You can drive any of them with some pretty simple logic > > gate based > > circuits. No need to spend a lot