Re: [time-nuts] So, how did you spend your leapsecond?

2012-06-30 Thread Brendan Minish
Dealing with servers and this issue http://serverfault.com/questions/403732/anyone-else-experiencing-high-rates-of-linux-server-crashes-today On Sun, 2012-07-01 at 00:07 +, Mark Sims wrote: > ? > ___ > time-

Re: [time-nuts] NTP latency monitoring

2012-05-28 Thread Brendan Minish
On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 13:07 +0930, Kim, VK5FJ wrote: > Hi guys, > > About 40 minutes in ESR talks about bufferbloat and NTP skew issues; > >https://plus.google.com/118131797905622113230/posts/FBTdvYhR8qS Thanks for posting this. It kicked off quite a bit of tinkering here I also 'blue wire

Re: [time-nuts] nanoseconds in the news

2012-02-18 Thread Brendan Minish
All a bit off topic but.. Milliseconds are now worth a great deal. In 2010 one large investment bank valued 1 additional msec of latency between major financial markets at $120 Million per year. This is in turn driving a lot of new fibre projects along new, shorter great circle routes with the

Re: [time-nuts] SRS PRS10 problem

2011-04-16 Thread Brendan Minish
I'll have another go at it thanks for all the help On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 22:37 +0000, Brendan Minish wrote: > Interestingly it was not your normal tin whisker (I have seen a few of > those, just..) it was a substantial one that had grown out from the > stack of 2 Ceramic caps

Re: [time-nuts] SRS PRS10 problem

2011-03-01 Thread Brendan Minish
Thank so much for taking the time to do this, it's genuinely much appreciated My replacement fet for the lamp assembly is on it's way from China and I'll report back how I get on with the repair 73 Brendan My On 23/02/2011 15:29, Robert Watson wrote: OK, Here is the result of my lunch-brea

Re: [time-nuts] SRS PRS10 problem

2011-02-18 Thread Brendan Minish
On 17/02/2011 21:55, Laurence Motteram wrote: I would just like to point out that SRS is one of the few companies who still provide complete manuals with parts lists and circuit diagrams (although circuits are only in the paper manuals, not the pdfs). Might a kind soul with access to the paper

Re: [time-nuts] SRS PRS10 problem

2011-02-16 Thread Brendan Minish
Interestingly it was not your normal tin whisker (I have seen a few of those, just..) it was a substantial one that had grown out from the stack of 2 Ceramic caps in series with the coil to the RF choke in series with the DC supply to the lamp housing. It might even have been a solder blob lef

Re: [time-nuts] SRS PRS10 problem

2011-02-16 Thread Brendan Minish
an MRF134 and have a go at replacing it but there may be other damage in there regards Brendan On 14/02/2011 18:53, Brendan Minish wrote: Hello all My SRS PRS10 ( http://www.thinksrs.com/products/PRS10.htm ) Rubidum frequency standard was power cycled a few days ago, since then it has n

Re: [time-nuts] Thunderbolt Supply

2011-02-15 Thread Brendan Minish
On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 10:47 +0100, Magnus Danielson wrote: > This has gone overboard. The T-bolt generates digital noise all by > itself. It's the OCXO which would benefit most from a clean supply and > isolation from the rest of the T-bolt except that temp-sensor. Considering the T-bolt has 3

[time-nuts] SRS PRS10 problem

2011-02-14 Thread Brendan Minish
Hello all My SRS PRS10 ( http://www.thinksrs.com/products/PRS10.htm ) Rubidum frequency standard was power cycled a few days ago, since then it has not achived rubidium lock. I have tried a full rest and also further power cycles with no joy. The SRS RS232 application reports the following pa

Re: [time-nuts] Oncore UT+ and NTP configuration

2010-01-26 Thread Brendan Minish
Thanks for all the help on this, I have made quite some progress and learned a heap more about freeBSD along the way So far I have rebuilt everything on freebsd 8, I ran into a few issues with oncore related bugs in NTP In particular this one http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/20

[time-nuts] Oncore UT+ and NTP configuration

2010-01-21 Thread Brendan Minish
Hello All I have a little NTP server based on this project it's running nanoBSD (FreeBSD 7.0-RC1) NTP ver ntpd 4.2.0-a GPS module is now an oncore UT+ I have had this device running happily for a couple of years with a GT in NMEA mode but I am having issues with configuring the oncore driver,

Re: [time-nuts] Soekris NET4521?

2008-01-27 Thread Brendan Minish
On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 22:25 -0600, Scott Newell wrote: > Is the Soekris NET4521 an acceptable substitute for the '4501, > assuming I'd like to build a precision clock input? The NET4521 has the on board High performance timer so the PHK high precision PPS hack will work. My first NTP server was

Re: [time-nuts] Crossing International Date line causes F-22 Jet Problems

2007-04-12 Thread Brendan Minish
Noting to do with time keeping but a number of years ago I was involved with a Voyage thought the North West passage The Autopilot in use on the boat works by learning it's corrections for local magnetic deviation from the GPS system by watching the course. It steers by Fluxgate compass but updat

[time-nuts] Thunderbolts are go

2007-02-14 Thread Brendan Minish
I would like to be in for one unit I am in Ireland and will gladly cover shipping costs 73 Brendan Minish EI6ZI ___ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts

Re: [time-nuts] Tac32oid program for Linux?

2007-02-13 Thread Brendan Minish
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 23:22 -0500, xaos wrote: > I have written a Linux based program that interfaces with many > Motorola receivers and provides a command line interface > for all functions. Thank you George. I had been looking for something like this for a while. Install was easy and it's a Ni

Re: [time-nuts] Brooks Shera GPS Controller Help

2007-01-17 Thread Brendan Minish
Here http://www.rt66.com/~shera/setup_notes.html In the troubleshooting section there's a note about A mysterious problem. I had this issue, I Wonder could it be related to your issue? In any case the fix does not hurt so worth a try? On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 17:05 -0600, Jason Rabel wrote: > Ch

Re: [time-nuts] Soekris NTP server

2007-01-01 Thread Brendan Minish
On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 21:47 +, Brendan Minish wrote: > 2/ the GPIO0 pin is the second pin in from the left on the bottom row as > seen with the board serial port facing you before anyone kills a board I need to make this clearer! with the serial port facing you JP3 is as follows 2

Re: [time-nuts] Soekris NTP server

2007-01-01 Thread Brendan Minish
be here in the house. Thank you to all here, especially PHK and John Ackermann for putting up with all my Dumb questions Also thanks to John for explaining to me exactly how this very clever hack works. regards Brendan Minish ___ time-nuts mailing lis

Re: [time-nuts] Soekris NTP server

2006-12-30 Thread Brendan Minish
On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 18:17 -0500, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: > > R61/R62 is the access point for the high-resolution timer in the CPU > chip. Poul-Henning's extremely elegant hack has the PPS signal start > the timer and at the same time bring the GPIO pin low. Since the GPIO > is interrupt-dr

Re: [time-nuts] Soekris NTP server

2006-12-30 Thread Brendan Minish
like jumping in at the deep end! 73 Brendan EI6IZ On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 17:00 -0500, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: > Brendan Minish said the following on 12/30/2006 03:44 PM: > > > I don't have a whole lot more time to spend on this right now, my BSD > > knowledge is limited an

Re: [time-nuts] Soekris NTP server

2006-12-30 Thread Brendan Minish
On the soekris board wiring the following instruction is given on the febo site http://www.febo.com/time-freq/ntp/soekris/index.html Run a wire from the junction of R61/R62 (near the backup battery) to one of the GPIO pins (I used PIO0, which is on JP3, pin 3) and f

Re: [time-nuts] Soekris NTP server

2006-12-30 Thread Brendan Minish
Hi Poul thanks for your help on this On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 20:50 +, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brendan Minish writ > es: > >Ok I got quite a long way with this project but I've still run into some > >issues > > > >1/

Re: [time-nuts] Soekris NTP server

2006-12-30 Thread Brendan Minish
Ok I got quite a long way with this project but I've still run into some issues 1/ NTPD does not seem to be aware of PPS or GPS devices. do I need to patch it and recompile if so how? Can the nanobsd script handle integrating the patch for me 2/ the console comes up on the serial port which we

Re: [time-nuts] Soekris NTP server

2006-12-29 Thread Brendan Minish
On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 15:25 +, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > The code size depends how much of FreeBSD you disable in the nanobsd > build. Hi Poul Can you give me some pointers as to what I should be disabling. I have been following the example here http://elibrary.fultus.com/technical/index.j

[time-nuts] Soekris NTP server

2006-12-29 Thread Brendan Minish
Hi, I have an old soekris net4521 board which I would like to reconfigure as a GPS referenced NTP server I have been looking at the pages the PHK has up on bot the soekris projects and on nanoBSD and also http://www.febo.com/time-freq/ntp/soekris/index.html however I need some help with the F

Re: [time-nuts] LPRO-101 with Brooks Shera's GPS locking circuit

2006-12-19 Thread Brendan Minish
On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 11:05 -0800, Brooke Clarke wrote: > Hi Brendan: > > Keep in mind that this design does work and that the above items relate > to optimization not bug fixes. I currently have the Brooks Shera design disciplining my LPRO-101 without any mods and using the ADC connected direc

Re: [time-nuts] LPRO-101 with Brooks Shera's GPS locking circuit

2006-12-19 Thread Brendan Minish
My original Question has sparked off quite an interesting discussion and I learnt a lot Since it seems that the Brooks Shera Project is not the optimum way of GPS disciplining a Rubidium Oscillator can anyone here point me in the direction of other DIY projects (or even ideas) that might yield a

[time-nuts] LPRO-101 with Brooks Shera's GPS locking circuit

2006-12-13 Thread Brendan Minish
Hi I am looking for info on using the Brooks Shera GPS-VCXO Controller with an EFRATOM LPRO-101? I currently have it locking an old and unknown single oven Xtal oscillator this is working as well but I hope to replace this with the LPRO-101 Has anyone any suggestions as to how best to choose the