[time-nuts] A Breakthrough By Iridium® & Satelles — An Alternative To GPS Service

2016-05-31 Thread David J Taylor
A Breakthrough By Iridium® & Satelles — An Alternative To GPS Service From SatNews Daily: "For the first time, end users now have access to accurate and resilient position, navigation and timing (PNT) technology that works anywhere on the planet, even indoors. " See: http://www.satnews.co

Re: [time-nuts] Looking for a Trimble Lassen SK-8 or SK II 5V GPS receiver

2016-05-31 Thread Luc Gaudin
Dear Bob, In case you are looking for replacement, there is clone available for most of the old Trimble modules (Lassen, IQ, LP) : http://www.naelcom.com/ds/gps/ds_lassen_clone_series.pdf Regards, Luc -Message d'origine- De : time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] De la

Re: [time-nuts] How can I generate a very clean 1 W signal @ 116 MHz ?

2016-05-31 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 30 May 2016 17:01, "Richard (Rick) Karlquist" wrote: > > On 5/30/2016 4:06 AM, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) wrote: >> I'm wondering what's the best way to generate 116 MHz with very low phase >> noise. Phase noise at < 20 kHz offset is particularly important, but 200 > > The "best"

Re: [time-nuts] How can I generate a very clean 1 W signal @ 116 MHz ?

2016-05-31 Thread Bob Camp
Hi > On May 31, 2016, at 6:30 AM, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) > wrote: > > On 30 May 2016 17:01, "Richard (Rick) Karlquist" > wrote: >> >> On 5/30/2016 4:06 AM, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) wrote: > >>> I'm wondering what's the best way to generate 116 MHz with very l

Re: [time-nuts] How can I generate a very clean 1 W signal @ 116 MHz ?

2016-05-31 Thread Richard (Rick) Karlquist
On 5/31/2016 3:30 AM, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) wrote: Please excuse my ignorance, but how would one lock a 116 MHz 5th overtone crystal oscillator to 10 MHz with no difficulty? Do you have a circuit you share that would give low phase noise, and if so how low? If you extract

[time-nuts] Phase meter for synchronizing osc's to GPSDO

2016-05-31 Thread Bud Patten
Back in the spring of 2012 an article was published in VHF Communications entitled "A Phase Meter: a help to synchronize oscillator's to GPSDO". In it the authors indicated that they hoped to add a "rotation counter" perhaps using Arduino.Does anyone know whether further work was done on this?

Re: [time-nuts] Commercial software defined radio for clock metrology

2016-05-31 Thread Sherman, Jeffrey A. (Fed)
Bob Camp: > In many DMTD (and single mixer) systems, a lowpass and high pass filter are > applied to the signal coming out of the mixer. > This is done to improve the zero crossing detection. It also effectively > reduces the “pre detection” bandwidth. My understanding > of the setup in your pap

Re: [time-nuts] Commercial software defined radio for clock metrology

2016-05-31 Thread Attila Kinali
On Wed, 25 May 2016 16:01:51 + "Sherman, Jeffrey A. (Fed)" wrote: > We found that in the studied units the limiting non-stationary noise > source was likely the aperture jitter of the ADC (the instability of the > delay between an idealized sample trigger and actuation of the sample/hold > ci

[time-nuts] Ublox Neo-6M time error.

2016-05-31 Thread Mark Sims
I had two machines running Lady Heather with the singing chime clock mode enabled (that plays a chant from the Missa Assumpta on the quarter hours). One machine was connected to a Ublox Neo-6M receiver and another to a Z3801A. I noticed that the two machines sang their jaunty monk tunes off

Re: [time-nuts] Phase meter for synchronizing osc's to GPSDO

2016-05-31 Thread Dave M
I looked through the complete index of the magazine for any further articles by the authors but no joy. It's fairly certain that they didn't do a followup in VHF Communications magazine (it ceased publication in 2013). The authors were A Daretti, and G Canale. You might search the web for thos

Re: [time-nuts] Ublox Neo-6M time error.

2016-05-31 Thread Gary E. Miller
Yo Mark! On Wed, 1 Jun 2016 01:20:27 + Mark Sims wrote: > Has anybody noticed such behavior with other receivers? Yup. Quite common when the GPS is confused about the current leap seconds. Usually a GPS will download the correct offset withing 30 mins of cold start. RGDS GARY ---

Re: [time-nuts] Ublox Neo-6M time error.

2016-05-31 Thread Tom Van Baak
Hi Mark, What does u-center report for the NEO-6M? Or how about TAC32? Check the precise alignment of the 1PPS and the NMEA/binary/SCPI message stream. Since the messages cannot coincide with the 1PPS, firmware has two choices: the message can describe the time of the previous 1PPS or the time

[time-nuts] Ublox Neo-6M time error.

2016-05-31 Thread Mark Sims
The receiver is reporting the correct UTC offset and appears to be working properly... it's just that the time is one second off from what 7 other models of receivers are reporting... > Yup. Quite common when the GPS is confused about the current leap seconds.