Re: [time-nuts] Lady heather plus NTP server?

2014-01-23 Thread ken johnson
/time-nuts/2010-February/044476.html It uses the NTP SHM reference clock. Scott On 01/20/2014 09:01 PM, ken johnson wrote: I currently have my router/firewall acting as both an NTP client, getting it's time from the net, and an NTP server serving my home network. Now I have my

[time-nuts] Lady heather plus NTP server?

2014-01-20 Thread ken johnson
I currently have my router/firewall acting as both an NTP client, getting it's time from the net, and an NTP server serving my home network. Now I have my thunderbolt and Lady heather working nicely, I would like to have that machine act as the ntp server for my network, but it appears ntp can't

[time-nuts] saving Lady Heather set-up?

2014-01-17 Thread ken johnson
Hi, I have now got my thunderbolt/Lady Heather set-up pretty much where I want it, and want to keep all the changes I have made. Is there a way to have Lady Heather save all the changes so when the inevitable reboot occurs, I don't have to go through all the changes manually again- always assuming

Re: [time-nuts] saving Lady Heather set-up?

2014-01-17 Thread ken johnson
Thanks Mark, one heather.cfg file coming up- now all I have to do is remember what I changed... Ken. On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Mark Sims hol...@hotmail.com wrote: Yes, Lady Heather has two ways of loading/changing a configuration. You can put a heather.cfg file in your Lady

Re: [time-nuts] The first FMT

2013-06-22 Thread ken johnson
Joe, I have placed the two .pdf's permanently on one of my web pages:- http://www.vk7krj.com/ham_stuff.htm Ken, vk7krj www.vk7krj.com ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB remodulator for the spectracom 8170 the schematic is to large

2013-06-16 Thread ken johnson
Also now on my web site, http://www.vk7krj.com/ham_stuff.htm at the bottom of the page, along with some other time-nut type files. And, once again, if anyone has any other time-nut files they would like to see hosted on a web page, I am happy to oblige. Just email me. On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at

Re: [time-nuts] Good (cheap) PIC chip choice for project?

2013-05-26 Thread ken johnson
John, for guys like us who grew up with basic, there is an excellent (compiled) pic basic from http://www.protonbasic.co.uk/ I had a look at c, but decided at my time of life I wanted to produce working projects not learn new (cryptic to me) languages so I stuck with what I was comfortable with.

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

2012-10-30 Thread ken johnson
Chris, I don't know about the RasberryPi, but the BeagleBone ( http://beagleboard.org/bone makes an excellent web server, mine (www.vk7krj.com ) has been running for about 6 months now with no problems. Draws 2 watts and is completely silent. Yes, the sd card has a finite life, but they are

[time-nuts] Oscillator frequency?

2012-10-03 Thread ken johnson
Hi, I have a tcxo that I recovered from a very old, suitcase-sized gps receiver some years ago. The oscillator is marked ERC Eros-750-MA110, with an output frequency of 5.119155MHz. I have tried to think of a use for for it but failed. I played with the numbers but could not find anything useful,

Re: [time-nuts] Oscillator frequency?

2012-10-03 Thread ken johnson
Thanks Don and Allen, it's been that long since I played with radio I had forgotten- 5.12 is half of 10.240 used to downconvert from 10.7 if to 455. I had a look through the circuits for my rigs, and my Eddystone 770r boat anchor uses 5.12MHz to align the various if's, and multiples of it to align

Re: [time-nuts] new member with questions NTP, PRS, GPS, ocxo

2012-08-18 Thread ken johnson
Again on power consumption, I used to run my web server (ubuntu 10.04lts) on a fanless mini-itx board, about 30 or so watts- now it's on a BeagleBone arm board about the size of a credit card, still running ubuntu , consumption is down to a whole 2 watts. I have it running ntp and serving time to

[time-nuts] Lady Heather command line?

2012-06-02 Thread ken johnson
Hi, can someone please tell me how to get the satellite graphic plot up on lady heather by using command line switches at program start? If I enter s then 3 when the program is running I get some displays up, but when I try to add the commands to the startup it gives me the help text. I have tried

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather command line?

2012-06-02 Thread ken johnson
Thanks Mike, that worked a treat- and next time, I will read the help file in a bit more detail- I completely missed that one! On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 7:07 PM, mike cook michael.c...@sfr.fr wrote: Le 02/06/2012 09:22, ken johnson a écrit : Hi, can someone please tell me how to get the satellite

Re: [time-nuts] Motorola UT+ Oncore GPS Timing Receiver 1ppsR5122U1154

2012-05-07 Thread ken johnson
If it's of any use to you, here is a link to the layout and parts placement for a board I designed when I was playing with the oncore for APRS some years ago. The board is designed so the motorola oncore plugs in to the top of my board and is secured by 10mm high stand-offs. My board supplies a

Re: [time-nuts] Thunderbolt Question

2012-04-23 Thread ken johnson
Not yet Marcus- that sort of technology will come right after the ftl drive, but just before we start building a dyson sphere.. On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Magnus Danielson mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org wrote: I thought someone finally put a cesium on the step motor keeping the ear

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

2012-02-23 Thread ken johnson
Hi Jim, for many years (over 20) I have used protel (now altium) autotrax- not that I am recommending it to you, but it is a very simple and intuitive program to use and I base my opinion of all the others on it. All the more modern ones I have tried are, for the most part, from fairly, to

Re: [time-nuts] PicoPSU power supplies

2012-02-05 Thread ken johnson
John, there are several different versions of the pico supply, if you look at the M2, M3, or M4-ATX, they are designed to run in a (12v) vehicle and will work from 6v to 24v. Take a look at:- http://www.short-circuit.com/categories/dcdc.html about half-way down the page. On Sat, 04 Feb 2012

Re: [time-nuts] GHz output from fe5680a

2012-01-31 Thread ken johnson
Does anyone else have problems with links to tf.nist.gov? When I try to get the pdf's, I get no reply from the url at all. My browser puts out the request, but gets no reply whatsoever and eventually gives up. This also happened previously with this url

Re: [time-nuts] GHz output from fe5680a

2012-01-31 Thread ken johnson
Thanks for the reply Steve- yes, I can access nasa.gov and nist.gov ok, but no matter which way I try, tf.nist.gov just will not reply to my browser's request. It's not as if my firewall is stopping the reply, there is simply no reply coming back. The url resolves to 132.163.4.169, and a whois

Re: [time-nuts] FE-.5680A trimming resolution

2012-01-31 Thread ken johnson
Rob, I would be happy to put it on one of my web pages so people could download it. On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Rob Kimberley robkimber...@btinternet.comwrote: If anyone is interested, I have just got hold of a PDF of the Technical Manual TM 5680-0211 for 5680A series Rubidiums. Please

Re: [time-nuts] GHz output from fe5680a

2012-01-31 Thread ken johnson
Hi Brent, yes I did thanks, but due to the slightly complicated way I have to use to receive mail from the lists I am on, I replied to Steve's email before I saw yours. Your efforts are are appreciated, I am going to enjoy reading the files. On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:07 AM, KD0GLS