Re: [time-nuts] WWVB / Xtendwave patents

2012-09-28 Thread Joe Gwinn
Office will then consider all prior art received when deciding to grant or to deny a patent. Joe Gwinn ___ 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

Re: [time-nuts] wwvb weak on east coast especially when the pre-amps under water.

2012-05-15 Thread Joe Gwinn
and the dew point is never reached inside the box. Joe Gwinn ___ 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] Neutrinos not so fast? (defective connector)

2012-02-24 Thread Joe Gwinn
At 3:24 PM + 2/24/12, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote: Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:42:36 +0100 From: b...@lysator.liu.se To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Neutrinos not so fast? (defective connector) Bj?rn, [snip] >> High precis

Re: [time-nuts] Thermal insulation choice?

2012-01-06 Thread Joe Gwinn
difficult to cut without a hot wire knife. Balsa wood cuts very easily with a sharp knife, glues very well with carpenters' glue, and will not degrade over time. Joe Gwinn ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to

Re: [time-nuts] Thermal insulation choice?

2012-01-06 Thread Joe Gwinn
place urethane foams available from building supply houses. Joe Gwinn ___ 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] crunching numbers from XOR phase detector

2012-01-04 Thread Joe Gwinn
chnicalinfo/applications/27.asp> Joe Gwinn ___ 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] Low noise power supplies for time nuts circuitry

2011-11-24 Thread Joe Gwinn
ulator. Joe Gwinn ___ 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] Fast than light neutrino

2011-09-26 Thread Joe Gwinn
all that, versus just running an amplified fiber between CERN and Gran Sasso? Two links are likely to be twice the trouble and error. Joe Gwinn ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mail

Re: [time-nuts] Fast than light neutrino

2011-09-23 Thread Joe Gwinn
e been for lack of trying. Now the world physics community is on the case, so it may not take all that long. Joe Gwinn ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and

Re: [time-nuts] live 50 Hz measurements

2011-07-01 Thread Joe Gwinn
y the operating system. If there is no drift file, the usual symptom is that the clock offset grows without bound almost linearly. If there is a valid drift file, the usual symptom is that the clock offset sways more or less sinusoidally, this being the residue after the average clock dr

Re: [time-nuts] Choke Ring Pictures

2010-03-14 Thread Joe Gwinn
uffice to act as a short at 1.5 GHz. A thin sheet of mylar (or a heavy anodization layer) between would help this along, by increasing the capacitance. Joe Gwinn ___ 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] Rack-mounting an LPRO? (Heatpipe cooler)

2010-02-28 Thread Joe Gwinn
ttachment-0001.jpg> The aluminum fin and copper pipe assembly integrated with the heatsink plate is most likely a heat pipe of some kind, as that's what Thermacore makes. It's a model 2644, from the nameplate, but no joy at the Thermacore.com website. Joe Gwinn ___

Re: [time-nuts] Variable Conductance Heat Pipes for temperature control

2010-01-23 Thread Joe Gwinn
t work. It was pretty good, especially considering that the heatsink system is wholly passive and electronics-free. Joe Bob On Jan 23, 2010, at 1:33 PM, Joe Gwinn wrote: > Back in December 2009 I proposed (in "Re: [time-nuts] Cheap Rubidium (heatpipe cooling for)") use of

[time-nuts] Variable Conductance Heat Pipes for temperature control

2010-01-23 Thread Joe Gwinn
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=190521&id=9&as=false&or=false&qs=Ns%3DPublicationYear%257c0%26N%3D4294915469> Copper-water-nitrogen VCHPs seem simple enough for fabrication in a home shop, although long-term retention of nitrogen (or any such gas) will require hard braz

Re: [time-nuts] Cheap Rubidium (heatpipe cooling for)

2009-12-27 Thread Joe Gwinn
Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Joe Gwinn wrote: At 12:45 AM + 12/25/09, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote: Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:14:38 -0700 From: Robert Darlington Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Cheap Rubidium (heatpipe cooling for) To: Discussion of precise time and frequency

Re: [time-nuts] Cheap Rubidium (heatpipe cooling for)

2009-12-25 Thread Joe Gwinn
hat a recirculating water loop is a more practical approach to carry away the heat. It's got a pump to move the water, but the rest of it > is fairly simple. Bob On Dec 24, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Joe Gwinn wrote: > A dodge occurs to me - a homebrew heat pipe: < http://en.wikipedia

Re: [time-nuts] Cheap Rubidium (heatpipe cooling for)

2009-12-24 Thread Joe Gwinn
-stage ovening scheme. Joe Gwinn ___ 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] Cheap Rubidium

2009-12-24 Thread Joe Gwinn
At 10:06 PM + 12/23/09, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote: Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:46:13 +1300 From: Bruce Griffiths Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Cheap Rubidium To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Joe Gwinn wrote: Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:57:42 +1300 From

Re: [time-nuts] Cheap Rubidium

2009-12-23 Thread Joe Gwinn
y controlling the speed of the fan (or pump) driving air (or oil) through the heat sink, as has been suggested. Joe Gwinn ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and

Re: [time-nuts] 60Hz mains clocking in computers

2009-12-13 Thread Joe Gwinn
org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Joe Gwinn wrote: At 1:44 AM + 12/13/09, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote: Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:29:17 -0800 From: Colby Gutierrez-Kraybill Subject: [time-nuts] 60Hz mains clocking in computers To: time-nuts@fe

Re: [time-nuts] 60Hz mains clocking in computers

2009-12-13 Thread Joe Gwinn
the screen. Joe Gwinn ___ 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] Measuring phase shift between 1 Hz DMTD signals by I+Q processing

2009-07-26 Thread Joe Gwinn
ll matched pairs of such ADCs. Joe Gwinn ___ 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] Measuring phase shift between 1 Hz DMTD signals by I+Q processing

2009-07-26 Thread Joe Gwinn
measurement Joe Gwinn wrote: Magnus, At 4:01 PM + 7/25/09, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote: Message: 5 Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:38:23 +0200 From: Magnus Danielson Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Measuring phase shift between 1 Hz DMTD signals by I+Q processing To: Discussion of

Re: [time-nuts] Measuring phase shift between 1 Hz DMTD signals by I+Q processing

2009-07-25 Thread Joe Gwinn
measurement Joe Gwinn wrote: It occurs to me that there is a possible alternative to the ZCD-chain approach typical in DMTDs, if one is willing to provide two mixers and two ADCs per channel, with a 90 degree phase offset between LO signals provided to the mixers of a channel. The output of

[time-nuts] Measuring phase shift between 1 Hz DMTD signals by I+Q processing

2009-07-25 Thread Joe Gwinn
the math to estimate performance compared to the traditional ZCD approach, but the complex multiply and average approach should be quite robust against noise, and is easily implemented in a DSP or FPGA. Joe Gwinn ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time

Re: [time-nuts] Broken Ovenaire OSC 85-50 (Cutting ferrite cores)

2009-07-03 Thread Joe Gwinn
less than US $10. Here's one: <http://www.dadsrockshop.com/blades.html> The traditional approach is to hold the oddly shaped object to be cut in pitch. By lapidary standards, ferrites are pretty soft, and so should cut quite quickly. Joe Gwinn

[time-nuts] PCI IRIG receiver card for AIX?

2009-05-27 Thread Joe Gwinn
Does anybody know of any PCI cards that will receive IRIG-B time signals and come with an I/O driver for AIX (IBM's flavor of UNIX)? Industrial-grade commercial products are preferred. Thanks, Joe Gwinn ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time

Re: [time-nuts] Standards sought for immunity of shielded cable links to power-frequency ground loops

2009-01-10 Thread Joe Gwinn
Magnus, At 6:02 PM + 1/10/09, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote: > >Message: 4 >Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:02:09 +0100 >From: Magnus Danielson >Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Standards sought for immunity of shielded > cable links to power-frequency ground loops >To: Discussion of precise time

Re: [time-nuts] Standards sought for immunity of shielded cable links to power-frequency ground loops

2009-01-10 Thread Joe Gwinn
Magnus, At 10:31 AM + 1/10/09, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote: > >Message: 5 >Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:06:39 +0100 >From: Magnus Danielson >Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Standards sought for immunity of shielded > cable links to power-frequency ground loops >To: Discussion of precise ti

Re: [time-nuts] Standards sought for immunity of shielded cable links to power-frequency ground loops

2009-01-06 Thread Joe Gwinn
At 4:59 AM + 1/7/09, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote: > >Message: 6 >Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:54:41 -0600 >From: Brian Kirby >Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Standards sought for immunity of shielded > cable links to power-frequency ground loops >To: Discussion of precise time and frequency m

Re: [time-nuts] Leap seconds and POSIX

2009-01-02 Thread Joe Gwinn
Magnus, At 12:00 PM + 1/2/09, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote: >Message: 1 >Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:45:23 +0100 >From: Magnus Danielson >Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Leap seconds and POSIX >To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > > >>> : In practice, in platforms tha

Re: [time-nuts] Leap seconds and POSIX

2009-01-02 Thread Joe Gwinn
ssage-ID: <495dd1ef.7030...@rubidium.dyndns.org> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >Joe Gwinn skrev: >> Having worked in the POSIX committee for many years, I can shed some >> light on how POSIX handles leap seconds: >> >> In short, PO

Re: [time-nuts] Leap seconds and POSIX

2009-01-02 Thread Joe Gwinn
Steve, At 8:39 AM + 1/2/09, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote: > >Message: 6 >Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 14:00:56 +1300 >From: "Steve Rooke" >Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Leap seconds and POSIX >To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" >

Re: [time-nuts] Leap seconds and POSIX

2009-01-01 Thread Joe Gwinn
-ID: <20090101.112803.179959520@bsdimp.com> >Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii > >In message: > Joe Gwinn writes: >: Having worked in the POSIX committee for many years, I can shed some >: light on how POSIX handles leap seconds: >: >: In short, POSIX a

[time-nuts] Leap seconds and POSIX

2009-01-01 Thread Joe Gwinn
Having worked in the POSIX committee for many years, I can shed some light on how POSIX handles leap seconds: In short, POSIX adamantly ignores leap seconds. All days in POSIX have the same length, 86,400 seconds. This omission is not by accident, instead having been violently debated at leng

Re: [time-nuts] Sub Pico Second Phase logger

2008-12-27 Thread Joe Gwinn
Pete, At 4:58 AM + 12/27/08, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote: > >Message: 2 >Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:10:47 -0700 >From: "Pete" >Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Sub Pico Second Phase logger >To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" > > >Joe, > >I have been following this t

Re: [time-nuts] Sub Pico Second Phase logger

2008-12-26 Thread Joe Gwinn
Bruce, At 10:16 PM + 12/23/08, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote: > >Message: 1 >Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:47:21 +1300 >From: Bruce Griffiths >Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Sub Pico Second Phase logger >To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > > >[snip] > > > Us

Re: [time-nuts] New topics (was Re: He is a Time-Nut Troublemaker....)

2008-12-24 Thread Joe Gwinn
At 5:05 PM + 12/23/08, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote: >Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:40:51 -0500 >From: John Ackermann N8UR >Subject: [time-nuts] New topics (was Re: He is a Time-Nut > Troublemaker) >To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > > >Magnus Danielson

Re: [time-nuts] Sub Pico Second Phase logger

2008-12-24 Thread Joe Gwinn
At 5:05 PM + 12/23/08, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote: >Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:10:29 + >From: Mark Sims >Subject: [time-nuts] Sub Pico Second Phase logger >To: >Message-ID: >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" > > >Since when has prior art or obviousness kept the US Pat

Re: [time-nuts] Sub Pico Second Phase logger

2008-12-23 Thread Joe Gwinn
Bruce, At 11:43 PM + 12/22/08, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote: > >Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:01:40 +1300 >From: Bruce Griffiths >Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Sub Pico Second Phase logger >To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > > >[snip] > >> [BG] Control of the close

Re: [time-nuts] Sub Pico Second Phase logger

2008-12-22 Thread Joe Gwinn
Bruce, At 9:08 PM + 12/22/08, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote: > >Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:08:35 +1300 >From: Bruce Griffiths >Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Sub Pico Second Phase logger >To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > > >Joe >Joe

Re: [time-nuts] Sub Pico Second Phase logger

2008-12-22 Thread Joe Gwinn
At 2:01 AM + 12/22/08, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote: > >Message: 4 >Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:19:06 +1300 >From: Bruce Griffiths >Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Sub Pico Second Phase logger >To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > > >Joe >

Re: [time-nuts] Sub Pico Second Phase logger

2008-12-22 Thread Joe Gwinn
Ulrich, At 7:57 AM + 12/22/08, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote: > >Message: 7 >Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:56:55 +0100 >From: "Ulrich Bangert" >Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Sub Pico Second Phase logger >To: "'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement'" > > >Joe and Bruce, > >> U

Re: [time-nuts] Sub Pico Second Phase logger

2008-12-21 Thread Joe Gwinn
Bruce, At 9:50 PM + 12/19/08, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote: > >Message: 8 >Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:50:46 +1300 >From: Bruce Griffiths >Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Sub Pico Second Phase logger >To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > >

Re: [time-nuts] Sub Pico Second Phase logger

2008-12-21 Thread Joe Gwinn
Bruce, At 9:50 PM + 12/19/08, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote: > >Message: 7 >Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:38:26 +1300 >From: Bruce Griffiths >Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Sub Pico Second Phase logger >To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > >

Re: [time-nuts] Sub Pico Second Phase logger

2008-12-19 Thread Joe Gwinn
Bruce, At 3:54 AM + 12/19/08, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote: > >Message: 6 >Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:54:12 +1300 >From: Bruce Griffiths >Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Sub Pico Second Phase logger >To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > &g

Re: [time-nuts] Sub Pico Second Phase logger

2008-12-19 Thread Joe Gwinn
Bruce, At 3:54 AM + 12/19/08, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote: > >Message: 5 >Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:51:55 +1300 >From: Bruce Griffiths >Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Sub Pico Second Phase logger >To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > >

Re: [time-nuts] Sub Pico Second Phase logger

2008-12-18 Thread Joe Gwinn
At 11:48 PM + 12/18/08, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote: > >Message: 5 >Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:48:27 +1300 >From: Bruce Griffiths >Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Sub Pico Second Phase logger >To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > >Message-ID: <494ae14b.2050...@xtra.co

Re: [time-nuts] Sub Pico Second Phase logger

2008-12-18 Thread Joe Gwinn
This is from home. I'll not be at work until next year. At 11:48 PM + 12/18/08, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote: >Message: 4 >Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:17:33 +1300 >From: Bruce Griffiths >Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Sub Pico Second Phase logger >To: Discussion of precise time and frequency mea