Re: [time-nuts] Advise on building a DIY GPSDO?

2016-04-08 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 06:13:07PM -0400, Bob Camp wrote: > Hi > If you start from a 24 MHz TCXO (different modules use > different TCXO’s): > On an 8 MHz output, most of the time you divide by three. > On a 10 MHz output, you need to divide by 2.4. > The net result is that you divide by 2 som

Re: [time-nuts] Advise on building a DIY GPSDO?

2016-04-08 Thread Alex Pummer
"Could you elaborate on this a little if time permits? I'm more a 'digital person' but it sounds interesting. Thanks in advance, Herbert " Yes Herbert here is; first divide 24MHz by two you get a very good quality absolute 50% duty cycle 12MHz, than you feed that 12MHx into mixer [which could b

Re: [time-nuts] Building a mains frequency monitor

2016-04-08 Thread Chris Albertson
It works the same on PC hardware The PPS causes an interrupt and the handler captures the value of a counter that is driven by the system clock. It is typically a nanosecond level clock that just free runs. It saves the captured value were a user level process can read it. The user level proces

Re: [time-nuts] Building a mains frequency monitor

2016-04-08 Thread Nick Sayer via time-nuts
The instructable I wrote about it is at http://www.instructables.com/id/Science-fair-How-accurate-is-the-AC-line-frequency/ There’s code for the Arduino and the Linux side as well as schematics. > On Apr 8, 2016, at 10:32 AM, Ben Hall wrote: > > On 4/6/2016 11:34 PM, Nick Sayer via time-nuts w

Re: [time-nuts] Advise on building a DIY GPSDO?

2016-04-08 Thread Bob Camp
Hi If you start from a 24 MHz TCXO (different modules use different TCXO’s): On an 8 MHz output, most of the time you divide by three. On a 10 MHz output, you need to divide by 2.4. The net result is that you divide by 2 sometimes and 3 other times. In the 10 MHz case, there is a *lot* of en

Re: [time-nuts] FTS1050A performance

2016-04-08 Thread jimlux
It's NASA property and not likely to be excessed.   You'll wait in vain Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S®6 active, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone Original message From: Tom Knox Date: 4/8/2016 11:34 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subje

[time-nuts] Korean Peninsula GPS Jamming Notice

2016-04-08 Thread Tom Van Baak
Not that any of us are in the affected area, but it's an interesting notice nonetheless. No replies necessary. /tvb ___ All CGSIC: On 7 April 2016 the U.S. Department of State released the following notice. START NOTICE Korean Peninsula GPS Jamming

Re: [time-nuts] FTS1050A performance

2016-04-08 Thread Tom Knox
Actually they are really nice, especially if it has the external 5MHz reference input. For many aspects of Time and Freq related work I do close in Phase Noise is a primary concern. If you ever decide it is not needed let me know I and I am sure many other "Time Nuts" would be interested. Cheers

Re: [time-nuts] Building a mains frequency monitor

2016-04-08 Thread Ben Hall
On 4/6/2016 11:34 PM, Nick Sayer via time-nuts wrote: fed into a Raspberry Pi serial port that was running a simple daemon that logged every line it got to syslog. Syslog is handy because it timestamps everything for you and keeps rotating log files and the like. Would you be so kind as to elab

[time-nuts] FTS1050A performance

2016-04-08 Thread jimlux
I just ran across an unused FTS1050A at work, and before spending any significant time seeing if it still works (like finding a power source.. there's no AC inlet, so I think it runs off DC), I decided to look up the data sheet performance. Interestingly, it seems it's not that wonderful, comp

Re: [time-nuts] LEA-M8T

2016-04-08 Thread Tom Van Baak
> The runs I did used a number of modules, not just uBlox products. Some modules > did worse than others on position. I dropped them out of the group before I > moved > on to timing. Hi Bob, I had access to a pre-release ublox combined GNSS receiver a few years ago and found the same thing. My

Re: [time-nuts] Advise on building a DIY GPSDO?

2016-04-08 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 06:07:54PM -0700, Alexander Pummer wrote: > and it is relative easy to make 10MHz from 8MHz with analog > frequency manipulation, which generates less jitter Could you elaborate on this a little if time permits? I'm more a 'digital person' but it sounds interesting. Thank

Re: [time-nuts] LEA-M8T

2016-04-08 Thread Bob Camp
Hi In my case, the antennas were nice brand new NovaTel L/L2/L5 Glonass rated survey antennas. The were up far enough to have a 360 degree view of the sky down to 10 degrees of the horizon. The runs I did used a number of modules, not just uBlox products. Some modules did worse than others on p