Re: [time-nuts] OCXO Vectron 218Y44442

2017-10-16 Thread Azelio Boriani
The crystal is socketed: the problem might be the socket. On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 1:56 AM, Bob kb8tq wrote: > Hi > > Welcome to the 1990’s … that’s an *old* design. Since Vectron kept building > same / same > (if you ordered it that way) who knows when it was built. > > Bob > >> On Oct 16, 2017

Re: [time-nuts] Fast rise time pulser

2017-10-16 Thread paul swed
It did make it to the post. Question. Rise and fall times are sub 40ps is that a typo in your email. Regards Paul WB8TSL On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 10:45 AM, BIll Ezell wrote: > I rushed out and ordered one, and I have to say, I'm impressed. > The test report it came with states 34.4 ps risetime /

Re: [time-nuts] Question about SA.33 Rb clock

2017-10-16 Thread Hal Murray
kb...@n1k.org said: > The gotcha is that the spur spec’s are not always met. As you might guess, > doing testing over really wide DDS ranges is impractical. Some designs use > cleanup loops. The gotcha then becomes a spur (say at 0.053 Hz) that is > inside the cleanup loop bandwidth …. How

Re: [time-nuts] OCXO Vectron 218Y44442

2017-10-16 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi Welcome to the 1990’s … that’s an *old* design. Since Vectron kept building same / same (if you ordered it that way) who knows when it was built. Bob > On Oct 16, 2017, at 4:10 PM, Vlad wrote: > > > Hello, > > I am wandering if anybody observe the behavior for OCXO, when its stop to >

Re: [time-nuts] OCXO Vectron 218Y44442

2017-10-16 Thread Mark Spencer
I've experienced this with products with simple crystal oscillators. (Ie. Tap or bang the unit to get the oscillator to start oscillating.) Mark Spencer m...@alignedsolutions.com 604 762 4099 > On Oct 16, 2017, at 1:10 PM, Vlad wrote: > > > Hello, > > I am wandering if anybody observe the

Re: [time-nuts] OCXO Vectron 218Y44442

2017-10-16 Thread Jim Harman
Sorry, this image http://www.patoka.ca/Vectron-218Y2/IMG_20171015_193511542.jpg On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 6:22 PM, Jim Harman wrote: > In your image ...125 it looks like there is a cold solder joint near the > bottom right, in the second "column" of pads, 3 pads up from the bottom. > > On Mon,

Re: [time-nuts] OCXO Vectron 218Y44442

2017-10-16 Thread Jim Harman
In your image ...125 it looks like there is a cold solder joint near the bottom right, in the second "column" of pads, 3 pads up from the bottom. On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Vlad wrote: > > Hello, > > I am wandering if anybody observe the behavior for OCXO, when its stop to > reproduce the

Re: [time-nuts] current crop of GPS receivers for Rpi/Beaglebone for NTP server/etc

2017-10-16 Thread Bob Darlington
Jim, I'm happy to give you my BBB and custom made gps cape for it if you want to continue the work. I stopped all work right about the time I got married (2 years ago) and likely will never circle back around to play with it again. It uses a Furuno GT-8736 timing receiver and I had it working wi

[time-nuts] OCXO Vectron 218Y44442

2017-10-16 Thread Vlad
Hello, I am wandering if anybody observe the behavior for OCXO, when its stop to reproduce the signal, and the only way to return it back to business is little mechanical stress. I have TWO of such OCXO. One of them is Austron 11.2 Mhz. And another one is Vectron model 218Y4442 9.8304Mhz

Re: [time-nuts] current crop of GPS receivers for Rpi/Beaglebone for NTP server/etc

2017-10-16 Thread David fav
I used https://store.uputronics.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=60_64&product_id=81 and I'm happy with it. Good instructions. On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 2:46 PM, Hal Murray wrote: > I don't know of any no-wire setups for the Beaglebone. (I somewhat > remember > one, but it included someth

Re: [time-nuts] current crop of GPS receivers for Rpi/Beaglebone for NTP server/etc

2017-10-16 Thread Hal Murray
I don't know of any no-wire setups for the Beaglebone. (I somewhat remember one, but it included something else I didn't need and the price was high enough that I ignored it.) If anybody finds one, please let us know. There are at least 3 GPS HATs for Pis. The first two include a patch anten

Re: [time-nuts] current crop of GPS receivers for Rpi/Beaglebone for NTP server/etc

2017-10-16 Thread Pete Stephenson
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017, at 03:45 PM, jimlux wrote: > I have beagles, but others have pis. > > There seem to be dozens of GPS receivers out there in a variety of form > factors. > > What's the current "best" inexpensive choice for run of the mill > time-setting/1pps that's a "catalog" item > > P

Re: [time-nuts] current crop of GPS receivers for Rpi/Beaglebone for NTP server/etc

2017-10-16 Thread Mike Cook
> Le 16 oct. 2017 à 15:45, jimlux a écrit : > > I have beagles, but others have pis. > > There seem to be dozens of GPS receivers out there in a variety of form > factors. > > What's the current "best" inexpensive choice for run of the mill > time-setting/1pps that's a "catalog » item Best

Re: [time-nuts] Fast rise time pulser

2017-10-16 Thread BIll Ezell
I rushed out and ordered one, and I have to say, I'm impressed. The test report it came with states 34.4 ps risetime / 32.13 ps falltime 8.6% overshoot measured with a Tek CSA 803A. I hooked it up to my wonderful HP 54542 2 Gsamples/sec scope and got exactly what I would expect, 496 ps risetime

Re: [time-nuts] current crop of GPS receivers for Rpi/Beaglebone forNTP server/etc

2017-10-16 Thread Tom Van Baak
Jim, When I don't want to fuss with anything fancy I use these: https://www.adafruit.com/product/746 https://www.parallax.com/product/28511 https://www.parallax.com/product/28509 https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12751 /tvb - Original Message - From: "jimlux" To: "Discussion of prec

Re: [time-nuts] current crop of GPS receivers for Rpi/Beaglebone forNTP server/etc

2017-10-16 Thread David J Taylor via time-nuts
I have beagles, but others have pis. There seem to be dozens of GPS receivers out there in a variety of form factors. What's the current "best" inexpensive choice for run of the mill time-setting/1pps that's a "catalog" item Plenty of online "how-to" from 2013 and 2014, but we here on the list

[time-nuts] current crop of GPS receivers for Rpi/Beaglebone for NTP server/etc

2017-10-16 Thread jimlux
I have beagles, but others have pis. There seem to be dozens of GPS receivers out there in a variety of form factors. What's the current "best" inexpensive choice for run of the mill time-setting/1pps that's a "catalog" item Plenty of online "how-to" from 2013 and 2014, but we here on the

Re: [time-nuts] HP 3048 question: how to export graphs?

2017-10-16 Thread Stephen Tompsett
How about PrintCapture with a Prologix interface? On 15/10/2017 20:03, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote: > I am running an HP 3048 under HTBasic and I > have a nice looking phase noise graph on the > screen.  I want to export the graph to the > world outside of RMB.  Using the "Hard Copy" or "Plot"