[time-nuts] How Rubidiums make their frequency

2006-04-19 Thread Tom Clark, K3IO (ex W3IWI)
Christopher Hoover asked: one issue remains: i have to crank the magnetic field setting almost to its high limit (9.91/10.00) to get 5 MHz out; lower settings give a frequency that is too low. i presume this is unusual. i have a rudimentary understanding of the rubidium

Re: [time-nuts] IC for 1 PPS Output

2006-04-07 Thread Tom Clark, K3IO (ex W3IWI)
John Ackermann took my name in vain: Hi Brooke -- The circuit I use is stolen from Tom Clark's TAC -- paralleling several sections of a 74AC04 hex inverter through 47 ohm resistors. For the current TADD projects, I'm using three sections that way, so each chip gives me two outputs, and

Re: [time-nuts] GPS Selective Availability. Is it On or Off?

2006-03-13 Thread Tom Clark, K3IO (ex W3IWI)
Chuck said I got the notion that it was turned off during Desert Storm, by virtue of being involved in the e-warfare effort that lead up to, and followed the event. I haven't been paying much attention since. I knew that they had intended to turn SA back on after production of the p-code

[time-nuts] S/A, Receiver Glitches, Y2K etc

2006-03-12 Thread Tom Clark, K3IO (ex W3IWI)
Don did not mention which basic receiver is inside his AUTEC box. Some receivers do exhibit glitches. Some of these are documented in my 2000 ION paper Low-cost, High Accuracy GPS Timing available on [1]http://gpstime.com. You might find some of the Timing for VLBI tutorials to be

Re: [time-nuts] Thought experiment on a low cost timing board

2006-02-24 Thread Tom Clark, K3IO (ex W3IWI)
I have done several GPSDOs using the NAVMAN receiver, so I add a few comments to the discussion: 1. Both the G3RUH ([1]http://www.jrmiller.demon.co.uk/projects/ministd/frqstd.htm) and I2PHD ([2]http://gpsdo.i2phd.com/) designs use 74HC390 divider chips; I also tried them. What I