Re: [time-nuts] usno tours

2013-04-22 Thread Eric Fort
Thanks, figured someone who reads this list may be connected there... not like precision timekeeping is a huge community. Eric On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Magnus Danielson mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org wrote: On 03/17/2013 10:47 PM, Eric Fort wrote: Would anyone on this list know

[time-nuts] usno tours

2013-03-17 Thread Eric Fort
Would anyone on this list know the present status of tours at usno DC (for may2013) with the present state of congress. I'll be in DC the first week of May and would really like to see the lab and learn more about astronomical and atomic timekeeping activities there. Eric Fort

[time-nuts] What time is it anyway?

2010-03-26 Thread Eric Fort
Hopefully the following questions will begin some discussion leading to a better understanding of What time is and where it comes from in a civil, legal, and everyday living context. What time is it? Why is that the correct time? How does one know what the correct time is? Is the proper

Re: [time-nuts] OT: Verilog/VHDL discussion list created...

2009-04-16 Thread Eric Fort
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Magnus Danielson mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org wrote: I have my own email-lists on my own server... if someone asked me to set the list up, I would just do it. Cheers, Magnus AND On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:50 PM, John Miles jmi...@pop.net wrote: What

[time-nuts] looking for data on Magellan 10 channel OEM GPS board circa 1994-1998

2009-03-07 Thread Eric Fort
I'm looking for data on what appears to be a magellan oem GPS reciever which I removed from an older magellan aviation gps with moving map display (unit was circa 1998). The gps module I removed has Magellan systems corp, Copyright 1994 10 channel OEM silkscreened on the top side and a sticker on

[time-nuts] radio clocks

2009-01-01 Thread Eric Fort
Does anyone know of a (WWVB) radio controlled clock that meets all the necessary points and many if not most of the optional points listed in the compliance checklist in section 10 of NIST Special Publication 960-14, available for reference here: http://tf.nist.gov/general/pdf/1976.pdf (compliance

Re: [time-nuts] CPU frequency and NTP crazyness.

2008-01-05 Thread Eric Fort
the bios lists them as power saving or green features. they will not reference speed directly. try disabling anything that remotely implies power saving. The best solution I know of though is to use linux as an ntp server and set a fixed processor speed directly. -Eric On 1/5/08, Ryan [EMAIL

Re: [time-nuts] CPU frequency and NTP crazyness.

2008-01-04 Thread Eric Fort
Two things come to mind here, first most bios have a group of power management features which are configurable, make sure those features are set properly (disabled). second, Your OS should have power management options as well. The features in windows seem a bit limited for directly addressing

[time-nuts] need recomendation for a portable 10mhz reference oscilator

2007-12-11 Thread Eric Fort
I'm looking for a fairly basic, relatively simple 10 Mhz PORTABLE reference (probably quartz based) with enough stability over a period of a week of outdoor temp extremes to keep a 47Ghz transmitter locked within 100hz while mountaintop contesting. Suggestions are appreciated. something that is

Re: [time-nuts] More details on IEEE Spectrum clock competition

2007-11-30 Thread Eric Fort
over what durration will the clocks accuracy be measured? (seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, (years)? accuracy to be measured before disciplining with GPS, WWVB. calibration should be within the grasp of a layman Could some clarification be given here? I'm thinking that the clock

[time-nuts] windows xp 'internet time'

2007-10-30 Thread Eric Fort
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY I recently noticed windows telling me that it was November 30, 2007yet It's still october! I clicked the icon to manually update the date and time [from pool.ntp.org] (date and time properties, internet time tab, update

Re: [time-nuts] windows xp 'internet time'

2007-10-30 Thread Eric Fort
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY probably a week or 2. what likely happened is that at some point I mistakenly reset the month but I thought telling it to manually sync should fix that an it did not. the date remained in errror. Eric On 10/30/07, Jason

Re: [time-nuts] OT: Need HP 7475A Drivers manuals

2007-10-27 Thread Eric Fort
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY The manual has been scanned already and is available at http://www.hpmuseum.net/exhibit.php?hwdoc=74 Eric (I didn't contribute it, Joseph Gray from this list pointed me there in a post that also went to the list I believe)

Re: [time-nuts] OT: Need HP 7475A Drivers for XP or Linux

2007-10-21 Thread Eric Fort
] wrote: On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:57:27 -0700, Eric Fort [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There seems to be a wealth of knowlege here about keeping older HP hardware running. Would anyone in this group have experience using a 7475A plotter under XP or Linux to plot test data or drawings. I'd like

Re: [time-nuts] OT: Need HP 7475A Drivers for XP or Linux

2007-10-21 Thread Eric Fort
are welcome) Thanks to all, Eric Eric On 10/21/07, Joseph Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Until he fixes that URL, just paste the filename into the page URL after Misc/. It worked for me. - Original Message - From: Eric Fort [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion of precise time

Re: [time-nuts] OT: Need HP 7475A Drivers for XP or Linux

2007-10-21 Thread Eric Fort
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY This one was free and there's much satisfaction in making the old stuff work once more. When I get it set up it will likely be used to output cad plots for EDA work including PCB artwork, and schematics. It may be slower than

Re: [time-nuts] OT: Need HP 7475A Drivers for XP or Linux

2007-10-21 Thread Eric Fort
code). I am not aware of any drivers you can use with shrink-wrap software, but I would be surprised if someone has not done that under Linux. Didier KO4BB -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fort Sent: Saturday

[time-nuts] OT: Need HP 7475A Drivers for XP or Linux

2007-10-20 Thread Eric Fort
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY There seems to be a wealth of knowlege here about keeping older HP hardware running. Would anyone in this group have experience using a 7475A plotter under XP or Linux to plot test data or drawings. I'd like to get mine

Re: [time-nuts] Scope Clock

2007-08-02 Thread Eric Fort
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY jan seems to be having a bit of trouble posting so I'll add his off list reply to the list discussion. I too have one of these on it's way and look forward to building it. Eric Hi, Eric. I saw the discussions on the

Re: [time-nuts] Scope Clock

2007-07-31 Thread Eric Fort
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY as ordered will these boards accept 1pps or was yours a special? Eric kg6kqt On 7/23/07, Mark Amos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: time-nuts-bounces+eric.fort= [EMAIL PROTECTED]