[time-nuts] Einstein Special on PBS

2015-11-26 Thread Joe Leikhim
There is a great special about Einstein on PBS. I think there are two episodes. I watched one, near the end there was some definite time-nuttery going on with portable HP cesium clocks -- Joe Leikhim Leikhim and Associates Communications Consultants Oviedo, Florida jleik...@leikhim.com 40

Re: [time-nuts] KD2BD WWVB receiver/decoder in QEX

2015-11-26 Thread paul swed
By using the NE5532 ICs I have an operational KD2BD wwvb receiver and it has just locked for the first time. Made a few other changes like the vco loop chip is a TLE2071. Thats because it was available much like the article. I also used a PTI 10 MHz oscillator. A nice unit picked up at a flea marke

Re: [time-nuts] ACAM GP22 Chip

2015-11-26 Thread Bob Camp
Hi The issue of “technology to back this up” is not a trivial point at all. There is a lot of detailed knowledge in each of these areas. There is also a lot of gear that is specific to this or that kind of work. The gear is fairly easy to take care of and to estimate. The “how long will the lea

Re: [time-nuts] ACAM GP22 Chip

2015-11-26 Thread Thomas Allgeier
Hello Tom, One of the problems here (embarrassingly) is that we have a lack of kit in this particular respect. And I am not yet prepared to throw too much money at it before I can judge the real potential. (Our forte so far is high precision in terms of voltage and current, which is what you t

Re: [time-nuts] ACAM GP22 Chip

2015-11-26 Thread Thomas Allgeier
Hello Angus, That is roughly what I want to do, a plausibility check if what I see is caused more by the GP22 or already present on the signal I am trying to measure. Very clearly there is no principal problem, the data I get from the GP22 is pretty decent and with enough filtering already use