Re: [time-nuts] Stable32 now available

2018-01-02 Thread Paul Alfille
Is the code be available, or just the compiled binary? On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 6:05 AM, Magnus Danielson wrote: > Hi, > > Very cool. That I ended up paying for my copy is another thing. > > Now, the code needs to be maintained. I personally also would like to > see it run natively on Linux, it do

Re: [time-nuts] RS-232 Pin Outs for the Acron Zeit WWVB LCD Clock

2017-07-21 Thread Paul Alfille
I thought I could answer this question easily, since I had the cable right at hand. But my continuity detector gave strange results. I opened up the D-shell and found a small circuit board with diode, capacitors and what looks like an ST358 op amp. Paul Alfille On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 4:27 PM

Re: [time-nuts] Timelab question

2017-02-22 Thread Paul Alfille
Any chance that Lady Heather would support the HP5370A/B ? Does she support HPIB in some way (or using the BeagleBone brain transplant and tcp). Paul Alfille K1PHA On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 6:35 PM, Mark Sims wrote: > At one time Timelab worked well for me under Wine. It's been years s

Re: [time-nuts] Temperature (environmental) sensors

2017-01-03 Thread Paul Alfille
If you don't mind using 1-wire sensors, there are many nice choices, like: http://www.embeddeddatasystems.com/Environmental-Sensors_c_44.html for temperature/humidity/barometric pressure... On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 10:22 AM, jimlux wrote: > On 1/3/17 7:08 AM, Tom Van Baak wrote: > >> I have som

Re: [time-nuts] A Leap Second is coming

2016-12-29 Thread Paul Alfille
Is there a way in LH to test a clock against accurate internew time (accurate to .5 seconds I guess)? I have the Arcron WWVB clock that is newly supported in LH and I'd like to see when the leap second correction is made. On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Vlad wrote: > >> Some tools here, to see

Re: [time-nuts] Man with too many clocks.

2016-11-03 Thread Paul Alfille
By the way, the HP5370B has a OCXO, not TCXO. It needs a while to become stable, but should be quite consistent after that. On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 4:50 PM, Nick Sayer via time-nuts wrote: > I’m going to try and describe my thoughts, but it may not come out as > “right” as some others here can do

Re: [time-nuts] Temp/Humidity control systems?

2016-10-27 Thread Paul Alfille
Use one of the Wine cellar room coolers -- they keep the temperature and humidity fairly constant. Typically ~55F but can vary it. Breezaire and others are vendors in this area. The units look like a window airconditioner. This will work to keep the temperature in a given range, but with rather ab

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather coming soon to a Linux box near you...

2016-04-22 Thread Paul Alfille
This is great news. Will the code be available for inspection / modification? Paul Alfille K1PHA On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 1:13 AM, Mark Sims wrote: > Well, Lady Heather finally got off her ample ass and dug into the tao of > X11 and all things Linuxy. The program is currently workin

Re: [time-nuts] looking for rakable GPSDO

2015-10-19 Thread Paul Alfille
Is the KS-24361 too narrow for your use, or are you only looking for new equipment? On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Stéphane Rey wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking for a 10 MHz output GPSDO with external antenna which would be > rackable. Symmetricon doesn't seem to propose some neither Keysight.

Re: [time-nuts] HP 5730 data polling technique?

2015-09-06 Thread Paul Alfille
000 tau, 1.4362e-07 adev(n=6), 5.7872e-08 oadev(n=50397) 2 tau, 1.2508e-07 adev(n=2), 2.7868e-08 oadev(n=30397) This uses a perl 1-liner to remove extra text. On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Paul Alfille wrote: > Thank you everyone for responding to my plea for help

Re: [time-nuts] HP 5730 data polling technique?

2015-09-06 Thread Paul Alfille
ete and the result can be read. How to implement the SRQ > management depends on your GPIB interface and its software suite > (ionsrq to install the SRQ handler for the 82357B and its C library, > for example). > > On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 12:14 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp > wrote: > &

[time-nuts] HP 5730 data polling technique?

2015-09-02 Thread Paul Alfille
I am stymied by what should be a simple task: I'd like to gather sequential measurements from my HP5370B. I have two of them, one with the Beaglebone mod and one straight GPIB. I'm running linux and have a Beiming HP GPIB->USB device. While I can see single measurements either with the Beaglebone

Re: [time-nuts] Time in a cave

2015-05-13 Thread Paul Alfille
Can you use a cell phone as a time source? For instance I see: http://time-server.android.informer.com/ as an android app that is an ntp server. I know this depends on the accuracy of the cell phone network. On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Tucek, Joseph wrote: > I'm looking for information o

Re: [time-nuts] How does NTP's local clock estimation work in detail?

2015-03-06 Thread Paul Alfille
Why not look at Poul-Henning Kamp's excellent rework: ntimed, http://phk.freebsd.dk/time/20140926.html He rethinks and reworks the client part of ntp, And makes a very approachable series of explanations at his site. On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Attila Kinali wrote: > Moin, > > I am a litt

Re: [time-nuts] Measuring frequency rather than tuning crystal

2015-02-27 Thread Paul Alfille
> I presume that this is what my TTi TF930 does. Calibration is closed box > so I guess the TCXO is free running and the micro inside just uses > calibration constants. > > James > > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > From: Paul Alfille > To:

[time-nuts] Measuring frequency rather than tuning crystal

2015-02-26 Thread Paul Alfille
I have a couple of HP 5370s with the beaglebone brain transplant. They come with a nice 10811 that has a little adjustment screw. Testing against a Thunderbolt or KS-24361 the 5370 is off by less than 1Hz. I know the traditional method would be to adjust the crystal slowly and make careful measur

Re: [time-nuts] 1968 Scientific American Magazine: Cesium ClockStandards

2014-12-10 Thread Paul Alfille
That link leads to "Semester At Sea" -- but a little googling finds something useful: http://amasci.com/ I think the biggest loss from Scientific America was Martin Garners Mathematics Puzzles. Everything from LISP to Conway's Game of Life... On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Jim Lux wrote: > O

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

2014-11-24 Thread Paul Alfille
There is a protocol for ending serial commands over telnet (tcp): RFC2217 See http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2217 A number of command line tools, like ser2net and netcat use the protocol. Some of the small serial servers support it and it can make using serial remotely tunneled over tcp seamless.

Re: [time-nuts] KO4BB.com

2014-09-30 Thread Paul Alfille
Looking at Cloudflare's website, they claim they will collect usage statistics for you. On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Didier Juges wrote: > I have looked at Cloudflare and as soon as my domain is transferred, I will > get the free account. > It was already recommended by another user last wee

Re: [time-nuts] Another "atomic" clock question

2014-03-01 Thread Paul Alfille
There are WWVB clocks with serial output. Arcron made one that I added linux ntp support for some years back. http://www.atomictimeclock.com/radsynarcron.htm http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/drivers/driver27.html As I recall, it was under $100, quite nicely styled, and is sitting here on

[time-nuts] Digitec model 8730A-082 frequency counter

2014-01-13 Thread Paul Alfille
Does anyone have information on the Digitec frequency counter -- model 8730A-082 ? It's from "United Systems Corp" of Dayton Ohio. It covers 5Hz to 600MHz, has a manual frequency adjust and seems stable to about 4Hz in 10MHz over a week+. The only information I can find is this ad reprint from "B

Re: [time-nuts] Trimble Studio, what is it?

2014-01-11 Thread Paul Alfille
K, I've looked, googled and looked and I still can't find the v2.02.6 > anywhere on the Trimble web site. Can you point me there please? > > Dave > - Original Message - > From: Paul Alfille > To: Chris Wilson ; Discussion of precise time and frequenc

Re: [time-nuts] Trimble Studio, what is it?

2014-01-10 Thread Paul Alfille
Trimble Studio works under wine (under linux). This is the newest version from the Trimble website v2.02.6 dated 10/25/2013 It's not prefect, some menu items will break it. But choosing your com port as a "new Connection" and GPS will show the Trimble Thunderbolt status. As far as I can tell, th

Re: [time-nuts] OT : different Rx and Tx baud rate on same port

2013-12-08 Thread Paul Alfille
ud rates on the fly works, even with telnet connections using RFC2217 commands, since I use that with 1-wire work. The only problems were some of the stranger settings, like 6-bit words. Paul Alfille On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Hal Murray wrote: > > b...@lysator.liu.se said: > &g

Re: [time-nuts] OT : different Rx and Tx baud rate on same port

2013-12-07 Thread Paul Alfille
how well your usb-serial convertor supports corner cases. Of course this requires writing your own software. Paul Alfille On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:48 PM, James Tucker wrote: > Björn; > > What platforms (HW and OS) are we considering? If I were writing the > software, I'd s

Re: [time-nuts] exponential+linear fit

2013-10-05 Thread Paul Alfille
;s method needs dG/dk4 = k3* which we already solved for! Thus k4new = k4 - G(k4)/(k3* Use the new k4 to calculate , , ... then new k1,k2,k3. The advantage of this approach is that you are doing an iterative aproximation on only one parameter, with explicit calculation of the other parameters. P

Re: [time-nuts] Tboltmon and linux

2013-09-02 Thread Paul Alfille
/show/persistent-names-usb-serial-devices/) or use /dev/serial/by-id/ for entries. As a side note, have you managed to get Lady Heather to wok either natively in Linux or under Wine? I get fatal errors. Paul Alfille On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 2:43 AM, francesco messineo < francesco.me

[time-nuts] Tboltmon and linux

2013-09-01 Thread Paul Alfille
I want to report that tboltmon works well on linux under Wine. I'm running fedora 19, 64-bit (so the executable is wine64) and tboltmon version 2.6 Getting a com port pointing to a USB serial adapter is it's own project, but quite doable. Pa