Re: [time-nuts] How well does GPS work in the Arcitic?

2017-08-15 Thread Brent
is email. Front what I can tell, this is the 21st GPS produced. Brent [image: Inline image 1] On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 6:22 AM, David J Taylor via time-nuts < time-nuts@febo.com> wrote: > The satellite orbits only go so far north? If you are far enough north for > that to be a

Re: [time-nuts] Anderson PowerPole (was Charles Wenzel GPSDO)

2017-06-22 Thread Brent
Never seen the XT60. Thanks for the heads up - looks promising - and cheap. Brent On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 12:48 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: > One of the problems of power poles is they are expensive. Not a > problem if you only need a few of them. I've been buying DC > connect

Re: [time-nuts] GPS discipline oscillator vs phase lock

2017-06-21 Thread Brent
s for this post. It will remain marked and in the back of my brain as "stuff that you should learn". If we only ever had enough time. Why didn't anyone ever expose me to this stuff when I was young and just starting in RF? Brent On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 1:36 PM, jimlux wrote:

Re: [time-nuts] HP8640

2017-06-06 Thread Brent
Seems a bit sacrilegious no? Just kidding - wish I had another myself.. Brent KD4VMM On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 9:05 PM, KA2WEU--- via time-nuts wrote: > Hi , I am trying to find an well working HP 8640 to do some measurements > like SSB FM and AM noise. > > Who can help ? 73 de

Re: [time-nuts] Machining some aluminum help!

2017-05-18 Thread Brent
ze it - they would charge you going rate. Which is why many of us end up with 1000's of sounds of test equipment in the basement or back bedroom - in addition to the machine shop in the garage. Brent On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Todd Caldwell wrote: > Tap Magic for Aluminum will

Re: [time-nuts] Hobbyist grade or homebrew temperature testing chamber?

2016-09-05 Thread Brent Gordon
this one, a few months ago. I meant to buy one, but got side-tracked. Unfortunately, I can no longer recall the brand. Brent On 9/5/2016 8:48 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote: As we all know, step #1 in making a clock is NOT to build a thermometer :-) I thought I would check the brain trust

[time-nuts] CSAC Performance - Symmetricom vs Microsemi

2016-05-17 Thread Brent
n anyone verify? Brent ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.

Re: [time-nuts] PLL book 3rd edition

2016-03-09 Thread Brent
book, and others like Gonzales and Clarke and Hess's "Communication Circuits: Analysis and Design" and some of the old HP app notes were the "Art of Electronics" of my RF world. Brent KD4VMM On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Magnus Danielson wrote: > Hi Ulrich and Jim,

Re: [time-nuts] Serial-Ethernet

2016-02-25 Thread Brent Gordon
. At work, before we started buying the Systech boxes we bought VLinx ESP211's from B&B Electronics. Pricey, but they work well. They also support RS-485. Brent On 2/25/2016 6:50 AM, Joseph Gray wrote: What USB-Ethernet devices have you had good luck with? I am considering a somew

Re: [time-nuts] Prologix_GPIB vi

2016-02-01 Thread Brent Gordon
you right click on the graph icon in the block diagram and go through five menus to select Maximum. See SetRange.png. Once you have Maximum, you just drag down on the bottom edge of the property node to get Minimum. Brent On 2/1/2016 11:35 AM, Bill Reed wrote: I have just gotten Labview Hom

Re: [time-nuts] Dipleidoscope

2015-11-09 Thread Brent
Cool! - never new such a thing existed. I presume you've googled and come up with the book by Dent on its use via google books? https://books.google.com/books?id=9QlbQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Brent On Mon, Nov 9

Re: [time-nuts] GPS outage? 19:00-2100 UTC Tue

2015-08-19 Thread Brent Gordon
No problems in Albuquerque, NM. On 8/19/2015 2:11 AM, Hal Murray wrote: Most/all of my GPS toys stopped working for a few hours late Tue evening. A few where I have good logging ran out of satellites. Did anybody else notice anything similar? Was it local interference, or something at the G

Re: [time-nuts] potential source for cheap copy of labview

2015-06-21 Thread Brent Gordon
ActiveX for example. Linux is not as well supported as Windows and Mac. It only runs on certain distributions with an old 2.?? kernel. Brent On 6/20/2015 6:48 PM, Brooke Clarke wrote: Hi Dave: When I was working with LV you could run the program on a Mac, Windows or Unix without

Re: [time-nuts] potential source for cheap copy of labview

2015-06-20 Thread Brent Gordon
cense key at <https://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?NavPath=2,1301,1450&Prod=LABVIEW-HE> Brent Gordon Certified LabVIEW Developer On 6/19/2015 9:18 PM, Bob kb8tq wrote: Hi It is interesting as you go through the various student and home versions, just how hard it is to figur

Re: [time-nuts] potential source for cheap copy of labview

2015-06-20 Thread brent evers
Interesting in your take on it if you check it out. Please report back your findings. Brent On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Eric Garner wrote: > National Instruments (and may other vendors of software) has apparently > cottoned on to the fact that if they don't start catering to

Re: [time-nuts] USB problems and solutions - Some what Off Topic

2015-05-29 Thread Brent Gordon
Settings tab. 4. Click the Advanced... button. 5. Change the port number. Windows will complain that the port is already in use. Ignore the warning; just unplug and replug the device into the same USB port. It will now run with the new assignment. Brent On 5/29/2015 1:17 PM, Cash Olsen wro

Re: [time-nuts] Time in a cave

2015-05-13 Thread brent evers
Look at the white rabbit project and you could also rebroadcast the GPS signal into the cave. brent On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Tucek, Joseph wrote: > I'm looking for information on non-GPS time sources. > > For background, I need to provide PTP to a cluster where we don&#x

Re: [time-nuts] Once again about counter calibration

2015-04-24 Thread Brent Gordon
Just feed the PPS into the scope trigger on step 2. The low repetition rate on the PPS would make this difficult on an analog scope; on a digital scope it is easy. You can use any sub-harmonic that is less than or equal the counter reference frequency (10 MHz). Brent On 4/24/2015 3:45 PM

Re: [time-nuts] [volt-nuts] The Art of Electronics

2015-04-17 Thread brent evers
ws, and many of my points/questions from my previous post were answered. Brent On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 7:46 AM, brent evers wrote: > +1. I'll probably buy a copy anyway (not that I need it so much anymore), > but I'd like to know what has changed, what you think has improved,

Re: [time-nuts] [volt-nuts] The Art of Electronics

2015-04-17 Thread brent evers
ion. Then again, as well as the 2nd edition did it, I have high hopes. It is a classic. Brent On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 4:31 AM, Jim Palfreyman wrote: > What's been added? This is a brilliant book, but I need to know what the > updates are! > > Jim > > > On 17

Re: [time-nuts] CSAC change in temperature, max is now 40C

2015-02-09 Thread brent evers
, and that microsemi was implementing a 'fix'. Could be unrelated, but this might be the fix. Brent On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Jim Lux wrote: > The latest rev of the CSAC data sheet (rev H) shows the max non-operating > temperature to be 40C.. > and operating from -10 to

Re: [time-nuts] TimeLab with Wine: No RS232 interface available

2015-02-08 Thread Brent Gordon
Don't remove the serial mouse, just disable it. If you remove it, it will return on the next reboot. On 2/7/2015 9:11 AM, Jim Lux wrote: There's also the whole "microsoft serial mouse device" problem. A typical Windows 7 install (and other versions as well) will have a MS serial mouse device

Re: [time-nuts] rs-422 rs-232 to fast ethernet converter

2014-11-22 Thread Brent Gordon
was the initial configuration. The trick is to configure the serial ports as a "Reverse Telnet" server. Search eBay for "terminal server". You can also search the Time Nuts list, they were discussed a few years ago. Brent On 11/22/2014 3:47 PM, Graham wrote: I have been con

[time-nuts] LTE Lite Question

2014-11-17 Thread Brent Gordon
I got my LTE Lite this afternoon and have been playing with it. I have a question on the NMEA $PSTI message: what are the last two numbers before the checksum (in this case 30, 0)? I've noticed that once the site survey is complete they go away, just the comma is left. $PSTI,00,1,1701,4.4,30

Re: [time-nuts] temperature sensor

2014-07-21 Thread Brent Gordon
The maximum temperature of saturated steam temperature depends on pressure; unsaturated steam does not. At work, we just finished a project using steam at over 800F to drive a jet mill. Brent <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superheated_steam> On 7/21/2014 5:39 PM, Attila Kinali wrot

[time-nuts] Atomic Bill from leapsecond.com on Adafruit

2014-04-16 Thread Brent Gordon
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Re: [time-nuts] Serial port splitter s/w

2014-02-26 Thread Brent Gordon
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Re: [time-nuts] Serial port splitter s/w

2014-02-26 Thread Brent Gordon
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Re: [time-nuts] 'CPLDs for clock dividers' Thread

2014-01-06 Thread brent evers
#x27;t remember more - that was 20 years ago this year, first job out of school. Yikes, I'm getting old. Brent On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Ulrich Bangert wrote: > Bob, > > I appreciate your postings a lot but can you please explain what property > you are referring to w

Re: [time-nuts] 'CPLDs for clock dividers' Thread

2014-01-06 Thread brent evers
Precious little to add to this, just to confirm that back in another life at Watkins Johnson (early 90's), we used CPLD's for low phase noise dividers all the time. My work at the time was focused on everything but the divider. Brent On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Bob Camp wr

Re: [time-nuts] GPS-18, Windows, NTP & Lat Lon

2013-09-03 Thread brent evers
rt.. Yeah - I'm pretty sure you had already thrown that idea out.. Brent On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Jim Lux wrote: > On 9/3/13 5:35 PM, Jim Lux wrote: > >> I'm looking for an easy way to get current lat lon, when you've got a >> GPS-18 hooked up for NTP. Th

Re: [time-nuts] GPIB/HPIB Address 31, Talk Only

2013-08-07 Thread Brent Gordon
That's part of the GPIB standard. It should work on any GPIB system. On 8/7/2013 1:22 PM, stan, W1LE wrote: Hello The Net, Is address 31, for talk only, a HP/Agilent feature only, or do tothers provide talk only on the buss ? I am looking at RF frequency counters to 12 GH, for use with Time

Re: [time-nuts] GPS 18 behavior

2013-07-22 Thread brent evers
picturing Bill Murray and a Caddyshack sequel on steroids... Brent ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.

Re: [time-nuts] Glonass Payload lost... (Rob Kimberley)

2013-07-02 Thread brent evers
No kidding. Talk about embarrassing. I guess in the good old days, that project manager would be packing his teacup to go spilt rocks in siberia for the rest of his life, if he got off that lucky. Brent On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Dan Kemppainen wrote: > Note to self, Not getting on

Re: [time-nuts] OT Prototype Boards

2013-06-25 Thread Brent Gordon
I once saw a board that was 2.5 mm, which would cause what you describe. As soon as I figured out what the problem was, in the trash it went. Brent On 6/25/2013 8:03 AM, Bob Stewart wrote: OK, I see in the wiki that 0.1" is by definition 2.54mm. I was taught it was 2.54001, but that&

Re: [time-nuts] Selecting a Microcontroller

2013-05-27 Thread Brent Gordon
de Deck" underneath. Click the link to download the presentation, open the presentation, then start the audio player on the class page. Some of the classes are really good, Jon Titus for example. Brent On 5/27/2013 1:52 AM, Herbert Poetzl wrote: On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 11:38:35AM -06

[time-nuts] Selecting a Microcontroller

2013-05-26 Thread Brent Gordon
The two threads here, "Good (cheap) PIC chip choice for project?" and "Follow-up question re: microcontroller families" have a lot of good information. A more organized approach is available at the Digi-Key/Design News Continuing Education Center which has several free courses on microcontroll

Re: [time-nuts] Connectors

2013-04-13 Thread brent evers
Scotchkote! Yes - Thank you for the correction! The other could lead to disaster! Nope - not ex-navy. Its pretty standard practice in the offshore world. My time was spent on research vessels down in Antarctica. Apologies for the mix-up. Brent On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 3:37 PM, paul swed

Re: [time-nuts] Connectors

2013-04-12 Thread brent evers
then a layer of scotchguard over that. Scotch rubber tape comes in both a linered (23), and liner-less (130C) version. I far prefer the liner-less 130c. To make sure this is time related, my two Thunderbolt antenna connectors are also sealed this way. Brent On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 11:16 AM

Re: [time-nuts] Adding 10Mhz to Lucent RFTGm XO GPSDO

2013-01-16 Thread Brent Gordon
Maybe this link won't wrap. If it does, the last half of the url is RFTGm/Lucent RFTGm Modification.doc <http://207.224.127.233/RFTGm/Lucent RFTGm Modification.doc> Brent On 1/16/2013 8:56 AM, paul swed wrote: Sorry the link does not work. Looking forward to the read Paul WB8

Re: [time-nuts] A Day in the Life of Five PPS Sources..

2012-12-20 Thread brent evers
You're right though - a closer look and the yellow trace does change level - the two PRS-10s must track each other quite well? Brent On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Chuck Harris wrote: > Ok, so there are two PRS10's in the mix. That makes sense. > > Thanks! > > -Chu

Re: [time-nuts] A Day in the Life of Five PPS Sources..

2012-12-20 Thread brent evers
The PRS-10 (yellow). Thus the others move relative to it. Brent On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Chuck Harris wrote: > Let's see, I understand what the traces are, but what is driving > the trigger? > > -Chuck Harris > > > brent evers wrote: >> >> A

Re: [time-nuts] A Day in the Life of Five PPS Sources..

2012-12-20 Thread brent evers
Any idea of what drove the larger drift between the Tbolts and the PRS10 at 1:26 through1:29? Be interesting (to me at least) too see the same post survey. Neat idea. Brent On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 1:43 AM, David Martin wrote: > The video permissions should be fixed so it is no longer "

Re: [time-nuts] Interesting crossover between time-nuttery and caving

2012-11-12 Thread brent evers
Fascinating application - thanks for posting. Always neat to see when the obscure (atomic clocks, relativity) begin to have direct, applicable relevance (geoid measurement). Brent On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Joseph Gray wrote: > It's interesting to see what new uses old technolog

Re: [time-nuts] UTC + 0 (was Accurate timestamping on computers )

2012-11-03 Thread Brent Gordon
Reykjavík, Iceland is UTC+0 without summer time changes. Brent On 11/3/2012 9:55 AM, Sarah White wrote: P.S. Seems strange that the only two options for a UTC+0 timezone are "London, Dublin" or "Casablanca" (neither of which are year-round UTC) ... I'll try to reme

Re: [time-nuts] Simple NTP server based on a Raspberry Pi

2012-10-29 Thread brent evers
Cool stuff David! A project for the (long) list... Brent On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 3:19 PM, David J Taylor wrote: > I've spent the last few days getting a very simple, low-power NTP server > working on a Raspberry Pi. I've discovered far more about Linux than I feel > I nee

Re: [time-nuts] There are a couple CSACs for sale

2012-10-05 Thread brent evers
Hmmm - was just poking through leapsecond.com's /pages section. Noticed a folder 'csac' dated Oct 3, 2012. Guessing there will be some plots/test results in a little bit?? Early xmas? Brent On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Azelio Boriani wrote: > Just sold. It was not me:

Re: [time-nuts] Tracking NTP displacement and correlation between two clients.

2012-10-04 Thread Brent Gordon
David Taylor has all sorts of NTP monitoring scripts, software, and tips at his web site. Start at http://www.satsignal.eu/software/net.htm#NTPmonitor and look around. Brent On 10/4/2012 8:44 AM, bownes wrote: It had to happen eventually. Time Nut interest overlapped with $DAY_JOB. Due to

Re: [time-nuts] Counters for ADEV measurements

2012-10-02 Thread brent evers
I'm also interested in this. I've got one of these and a 53131A and am still learning the ins and outs of ADEV measurements with timelab. I was not aware of the 5/10MHz shortcomings of the 53131A that were discussed this weekend.. Brent On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Geoff Bl

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather on a Laptop

2012-09-27 Thread brent evers
that this weekend). I also leave an atom running with trixbox to have a small business voip phone system - rock solid. Very cool little systems. Brent On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:52 AM, gary wrote: > I use a dual core atom as a server. Be sure to read the user reviews on > Newegg regarding me

Re: [time-nuts] Why the fuss?

2012-09-27 Thread brent evers
Zoning, Legal? Where? Brent On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:41 AM, J. Forster wrote: > Because: > > LORAN-C is gone. > > Not all can use GPS because of siting, horizon, zoning, legal, and other > issues. Not everyone can erect antenna towers. > > There is nothing else, exce

Re: [time-nuts] WOT: Identify this movie

2012-09-25 Thread Brent Gordon
Which was made into the movie Soylent Green. On 9/25/2012 5:34 AM, Tom Harris wrote: Sounds like the OP's story was from Harry Harrison's nightmarish novel of overpopulation "Make Room, Make Room!". ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com

Re: [time-nuts] problem with HP 59309A digital clock and HP IL/IB interface

2012-08-12 Thread Brent Gordon
I'm not familiar with the 59309A, but here are some things to try: Are you able to read just one character (1A)? Does the 59309A need a command to send the time? Have you tried setting the 59309A to talk-only mode? On 8/2/2012 2:20 PM, Hans Holzach wrote: RESET HPIL RESTORE IO SEN

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

2012-07-01 Thread brent evers
Sweating without power, trying to keep a 1942 generator running enough to keep the fridge running (required a mid day magneto tear down)... In between dips in a kiddie pool and 'saving' beers from getting too hot of course.. Brent ___

Re: [time-nuts] Missing parts of threads

2012-04-18 Thread brent evers
I've suspected this but never really looked into it. I thought it was just a break in the thread, but the subject didn't concern me enough to really flush it out. I'll look more closely next time it appears to happen. That said, I have not had a spam filter pick up any time nut

Re: [time-nuts] Holy cesium clock, Batman!

2012-04-07 Thread Brent Gordon
Same Bat Time! Same Bat Channel! On 4/7/2012 8:38 PM, J. Forster wrote: So, what's the time? -John - On 08/04/12 02:59, Mark Sims wrote: One of the nose-bleed channels (MeTV) just showed an old 1980's Batman show where the infamous, evil, dastardly villain Clock King attempted to

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB and solar flare

2012-03-08 Thread Brent Gordon
monitoring stations in Wisconsin and California (but Maryland is fine): http://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/wwvbmonitor_e.cgi Brent On 3/8/2012 9:46 AM, Jim Hickstein wrote: My Spectracom 8170 WWVB receiver hasn't locked up since yesterday sometime. It was a bit flakey before, but at least one

Re: [time-nuts] Schematic capture, anyone?

2012-02-26 Thread Brent Gordon
layout on inch spacing; traces don't meet the pads. I ended up creating my own libraries using the EAGLE libraries as a guide. I had one main library (1_main.lbr) for standard parts and additional libraries of specialized parts for each project. Brent On 2/26/2012 3:36 PM, NeonJoh

Re: [time-nuts] Neutrinos not so fast? (defectove connector)

2012-02-22 Thread brent evers
Why would this (60ns error, and connector issue) have not shown up in the time transfers and validations done by the labs cited? Brent On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Jim Lux wrote: > On 2/22/12 2:26 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >> In message<9a458dba-3875-4

Re: [time-nuts] How best to exchange Large files?

2012-02-20 Thread Brent Gordon
I've used this http://free.mailbigfile.com/ for years. You upload the file and they send an email to the recipient who then downloads the file. Brent On 2/20/2012 10:52 AM, WarrenS wrote: I'm just looking for an easy, temporary way (say lasting up to a week each) to transfer a few

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather for a noob

2012-01-12 Thread brent evers
other than pointing machines to NTP servers for time, but having the server side provide also be an NTP server would be the cats ass for me. Pretty big wish list for someone who can't write code out of a wet paper bag huh? Brent On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: >

Re: [time-nuts] Distance between GPS Antennae

2011-12-18 Thread Brent Gordon
ered splitter. I also have a couple of Thunderbolts. However, because I have a metal roof, the Thunderbolts lock on to fewer than five satellites at a time. The Sure and Copernicus both lock on to twelve. How did you measure the PPS jitter on your unit? I'd like to do a similar

Re: [time-nuts] Labview and searching archive

2011-12-15 Thread Brent Gordon
site. Boy talk about 1989 connectivity. The sites so slow nothing ever happens per page like 5 minutes. I did see the amazon listing but thought that was just the book actually. So not really sure what you are getting. Regards Paul On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Brent Gordonwrote: At A

Re: [time-nuts] Labview and searching archive

2011-12-15 Thread Brent Gordon
from them. Also, with any version after 7.1, you can download it from NI's web site. Brent On 12/15/2011 8:16 AM, paul swed wrote: Actually I would like to know also. I actually had a license for an older version. Unfortunately I had a disk issue that blew it away. Further though I am

Re: [time-nuts] Labview and searching archive

2011-12-15 Thread Brent Gordon
/). This is LabVIEW 2009. The current version is 2011. You don't gain anything major (except maybe better Win 7 operation) with the newer version. The biggest limitation of the academic version is that you can't build executable files. Brent On 12/15/2011 8:51 AM, J. L. Trantham wrote

Re: [time-nuts] Neutrino timing

2011-10-24 Thread brent evers
ose things. Sounds like a good excuse to build a moon base... Brent ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.

Re: [time-nuts] You can build a fountain from the things you find at home...

2011-09-27 Thread brent evers
had bouncing around my head for how this might be done to make a pretty good clock on a pretty tight budget. Last - I hope you got to visit the USNO library - its definitely on of the coolest places to see for a scientist/engineer in DC. Brent On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Robert Darlington

Re: [time-nuts] new CSAC

2011-09-20 Thread brent evers
What's the particular application of those two specific freqs? I.e., multiple (fundamental) of a specific gps clock, etc? Brent On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Pierpaolo Bernardi wrote: > I think I haven't seen this piece of news here yet: > > http://www.digitaljo

Re: [time-nuts] Info on Hamilton Railroad watch?

2011-07-28 Thread brent evers
Any Hamilton is special in my book. Brent On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:15 AM, John Green wrote: > I know there are those who have a lot of knowledge about pocket watches and > railroad watches so, I know someone with a 992B Hamilton Railroad Special, > 21 jewel, lever set, with a Montgo

Re: [time-nuts] Discipline an oscillator with NTP?

2011-07-22 Thread brent evers
"After that all you need to do is write some code to..." Oh - if I had a nickel for every time I've heard that! Brent On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Bob Camp wrote: > Hi > > The easy way is to take a pps off of your external oscillator and feed that > into a port

Re: [time-nuts] MIT RADIATION LABORATORY SERIES 1940-1945 (28 VOLS) on eBay

2011-07-13 Thread brent evers
#x27;d be interested in it. Time nuts? Volume 20 - Electronic Time Measurements (sort of). Brent On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Harlan Stenn wrote: > Bill Hawkins wrote: >> What does this have to do with time, you ask? Why, only that >> the passage of time alters men's

Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 84, Issue 25

2011-07-08 Thread brent evers
you are working near the poles. Brent On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 5:58 PM, David I. Emery wrote: > On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 11:11:34AM -0700, Burt I. Weiner wrote: >> Being in broadcast I need to know what time it is. I wear a wrist >> watch with real hands on it so I can tell what tim

[time-nuts] Jeff bezos' 10,000 year clock

2011-07-02 Thread brent evers
I don't think I've seen anything come across time nuts on this (at least since I've been a subscriber), if so, I apologize for the repost. http://www.1yearclock.net/learnmore.html http://longnow.org/clock/ Brent ___ time-nuts maili

Re: [time-nuts] Lyttleton Time Ball completly collapsed

2011-06-13 Thread brent evers
Dissapointing - I remember it being pointed out to me as we pulled into port there once. Are there others scattered around the globe? Brent On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Steve Rooke wrote: > Sadly, the Lyttleton Time Ball completly collapsed in yesterday's, Mon 13th, > after-sh

Re: [time-nuts] Sidereal timekeeping

2011-05-16 Thread brent evers
Nope - you're right - most don't go below 1MHz. Got a little loose with my K's and M's I guess. Kinda like - "what's 3dB among friends?" My apologies for the stray lead. Thanks for catching it Jim. Brent On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Jim Lux wrote

Re: [time-nuts] basic question on GPS satellites

2011-05-16 Thread brent evers
have had on the stability of the 10.0M reference. Also, a high elevation mask can do the same. Any reflection/comment as to the effect of my doing the above is appreciated. Brent On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:49 AM, paul swed wrote: > ok > Indeed now that its morning and different glasses I

Re: [time-nuts] Sidereal timekeeping

2011-05-16 Thread brent evers
Can't you just use a programmable crystal? Digikey will do this for you prior to ship. Search on crystal, then under the field type, filter by "Programmed by Digikey". Four types pop up as in stock. Not sure if they would meet you footprint requirement, but its worth a shot.

Re: [time-nuts] USB and Mouse conflict persists

2011-05-11 Thread brent evers
I believe you need to disable - not delete - the serial mouse in the device manager, else it just keeps reinstalling. Brent KD4VMM On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 9:42 AM, David J Taylor wrote: >> Hello David, >> >> The symptoms include: eratic mouse cursor that stabilizes (co

Re: [time-nuts] Tbolt Temp Sensor

2011-04-24 Thread brent evers
Great info Arthur - exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the tip on the chip version. My only question - what does one do with 50 TBolts? Hopefully you won't come up with a good enough reason for me to justify buying more!! Many thanks, Brent On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 9:29 PM, A

[time-nuts] Tbolt Temp Sensor

2011-04-23 Thread brent evers
ng edge clock, and active high on the reset line. Anyone else ever looked at the data exchange with this device? Anything else I should know? I'm just trying to verify that it is indeed the DS1620 and not something else. Brent ___ time-nuts mailing

Re: [time-nuts] Housing LPRO and Thunderbolt together

2011-04-23 Thread brent evers
Chis and Charles - Thanks for the links - those were the ones I was looking for... Brent On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 5:42 PM, brent evers wrote: >>...  If anyone has a decent source for 1U chassis >> that I could mount a pa

Re: [time-nuts] Housing LPRO and Thunderbolt together

2011-04-22 Thread brent evers
I could mount a pair of tbolts in, I would appreciate it. These were generic 1U rackmount chassis - not 'server' chassis with a bunch of preplanned holes. Brent On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 5:37 PM, WB6BNQ wrote: > Hi Pete, > > As Bob, K6RTM, pointed out the Thunderbolt and the Ru

Re: [time-nuts] Proton Precession Magnetometer

2011-04-06 Thread brent evers
amp;g magnetometer pdf" will pull up a few documents that may be of use. Brent On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:36 PM, John Miles wrote: > >> Hi, >> I am boxing up my LPRO rubidium source in a steel box. The device is >> to be thermostated >> by controlling a small fan out

Re: [time-nuts] Proton Precession Magnetometer

2011-04-05 Thread brent evers
Whats the required sensitivity? How much field strength (penetration) are you trying to measure? Brent On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Neville Michie wrote: > Hi, > I am boxing up my LPRO rubidium source in a steel box. The device is to be > thermostated > by controlling a small fan

Re: [time-nuts] T.I. experimenting - newbie question

2011-04-03 Thread Brent Gordon
Hi Joe, Both VoP and impedance depend on relative permittivity (dielectric constant). See the section "Derived Electrical Parameters" on Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaxial_cable Brent On 4/3/2011 4:37 PM, Joseph Gray wrote: I assume you mean that impedance has an eff

Re: [time-nuts] Parts Selection

2011-03-25 Thread brent evers
Hi - New to the list as of last night - much more activity than I expected. As an introduction, my name I Brent, and I work mostly in the subsea world, although prior to that, in the RF/microwave test equipment world. I expected to lurk for a good 6 months before chiming in, but what the heck

Re: [time-nuts] Mains as time-reference

2010-12-30 Thread Brent Gordon
Both programs work for me. I'm running WinXP. Brent On 12/30/2010 3:58 PM, Anthony G. Atkielski wrote: There's a beautiful screensaver available at http://gridwise.pnl.gov/technologies/ which shows the US WECC ( or so it seems ). I tried running the monitor program (not the sc

Re: [time-nuts] WTB: Older Version of LabView

2010-08-18 Thread Brent Gordon
00 MHz Celeron processors and 256 MB of memory on Win98, Win2000, and NT 3.5 systems using 7.1. On those slow, memory-short systems, screen updates were a little slow but I never missed any data. Note that none of NI's PCMCIA products work with Vista or Win 7. Brent On 8/17/2010 8:15

Re: [time-nuts] WTB: Older Version of LabView

2010-08-17 Thread Brent Gordon
sion 7.1 is my favorite. I really disliked all of the 8.x versions. The 2009 version isn't bad and I only installed the 2010 version today. Brent On 8/16/2010 11:36 PM, J. Forster wrote: Hi, Does anybody have an older version of NI LabView SW they'd like to sell? If so, please

[time-nuts] Which Rubidium to Get?

2010-07-21 Thread Brent Gordon
s it worthwhile or more trouble than it's worth? Are there any gotchas I should be aware of? Thanks, Brent ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and fol

[time-nuts] SparkFun Status

2010-01-07 Thread Brent Gordon
At 10:00 AM Mountain Standard Time, SparkFun is showing only 7106.39 of the 100K given away. Of interest to Time Nuts is that their clock is about 15 minutes slow; it shows that the giveaway has been active for 45 minutes, not a full hour. ___ time-

[time-nuts] OT: Spectrum Analyzer

2009-10-30 Thread Brent Gordon
band satellite signals (down converted to 950-2050 MHz). I'll also be using it to look at various RF data links from 433 MHz to 2.4 GHz. Thanks, Brent ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo

Re: [time-nuts] Clock Project Help

2009-10-28 Thread Brent Gordon
ircuit Cellar in any way other than as a subscriber. Most of what I know about embedded systems I learned from reading the magazine. They even have Time Nuts related articles: Microcontroller Clock-Locking: Frequency Reference Synchronization in the Jan 2009 (#222). Brent

Re: [time-nuts] GPIB on HP5382B counter

2009-10-23 Thread Brent Gordon
I'm out of practice with C, but shouldn't viScanf(vi, "%t", buf); be viScanf(vi, "%t", &buf); Brent Jerome Peters wrote: I'm still trying to get the HP5328B counter to work with GPIB. I don't have any problems talking, however I can&#

Re: [time-nuts] DC-DC converter

2009-09-25 Thread Brent Gordon
Digi-Key http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail&name=102-1690-ND Part #102-1690-ND 9-36V in, 48V 1.04A out $85.46, in stock 9-pin module Joseph Gray wrote: Does anyone know where I can get an inexpensive 12VDC to 48VDC converter to power one of my Z3801A's? I can find 12VD

Re: [time-nuts] HP 5328 PSU nightmare... Or stupid engineer, you decide...

2009-09-09 Thread Brent Gordon
I'm not familiar with this particular instrument, but a standard technique for linear power supplies is to hook it up to a variac. This lets you turn down the line voltage so you can do some measurements without smoking the system. Brent Douglas Wire - PUPCo Studios wrote: > Good day

Re: [time-nuts] Obscure terms

2009-08-20 Thread Brent Gordon
The amount of land a man and a mule can plow in one day. 43560 square feet 640 Acres=1 square mile Jim Palfreyman wrote: Sheez - I'm so glad we have metric!! Can I ask you US dudes a question? Do you know, without looking it up, what an acre is? It's such a commonly used term for measuring la

Re: [time-nuts] Prologix

2009-03-31 Thread Brent Gordon
but I think it will work. Normally, I do all my GPIB programming in LabVIEW. Brent ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.

[time-nuts] Trimble Copernicus Leap Second

2008-12-31 Thread Brent Gordon
tion or is that how WWV sounds now? Brent ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.

Re: [time-nuts] Help ID Display

2008-12-29 Thread Brent Gordon
I found this using Google. Look about half-way down in the postings for a connection pinout. http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/lcd-display/15058-so-i-got-40x4-off-ebay.html Brent. Richard W. Solomon wrote: > I have a nice looking display that I salvaged from a piece of > Cell Phon

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