Re: [time-nuts] NAA experiments as a reference

2014-09-14 Thread paul swed
OK I am use to traditional fsk that typically had a far wide shift then the baud. What you say would match what the tracor book says and the system is designed for. I still do not see why if I offset the LO to -150 hz I get a useful display to judge timing. I am using the lissajous method. Regards

Re: [time-nuts] NAA experiments as a reference

2014-09-14 Thread Bob Camp
Hi Remember that one model for FSK is a pair of AM signals that “just happen” to represent an FSK waveform. With normal FSK if you tune to one side, you will get a nice AM carrier and sidebands. With MSK it’s a bit more complex since they to do some cute stuff to cut down the bandwidth. It’s

Re: [time-nuts] NAA experiments as a reference

2014-09-14 Thread John Reed
: Saturday, September 13, 2014 6:18 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] NAA experiments as a reference Thats what I am trying to understand. How good is good. Is it a useful replacement for wwvb. Certainly kicks butt in signal strength. Regards Paul WB8TSL

Re: [time-nuts] NAA experiments as a reference

2014-09-14 Thread Jim Lux
On 9/14/14, 8:23 AM, Bob Camp wrote: Hi Remember that one model for FSK is a pair of AM signals that “just happen” to represent an FSK waveform. With normal FSK if you tune to one side, you will get a nice AM carrier and sidebands. With MSK it’s a bit more complex since they to do some cute

Re: [time-nuts] NAA experiments as a reference

2014-09-14 Thread David I. Emery
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 10:20:48AM -0400, paul swed wrote: I still do not see why if I offset the LO to -150 hz I get a useful display to judge timing. I am using the lissajous method. Consider that with the LO offset 150 Hz you will have a 100 Hz beat note with the mark tone and a 200

Re: [time-nuts] NAA experiments as a reference

2014-09-14 Thread paul swed
David thanks what you say seems to be true. I could see the stable 100 Hz and the 200 Hz was a typical 2 X lissajuo pattern within the 100 Hz pattern. From your comments then I speculate the following from Tracor. They used a LO 100 Hz below because the synthesizer was reasonable to build. Adding

Re: [time-nuts] NAA experiments as a reference

2014-09-13 Thread Charles Steinmetz
Paul wrote: OK have been experimenting with a simple vlf receiver for 24 Khz. Using an HP 3335a as the LO. The Tracor 900 d-msk-r circuit. * * * I was hoping to see a 100 Hz somewhat steady signal in phase relationship to my local 100 Hz reference. Thats absolutely not apparent. Sorry

Re: [time-nuts] NAA experiments as a reference

2014-09-13 Thread paul swed
Charles I literally just sat down to do some math. What you say is the same thoughts I have. The information I have on NAA says that for 200bit msk its a total of a 100 hz shift +/-50 Hz. That makes no sense I would think it would be at least +/- 100 Hz. They had in the past run a 100 bit msk. I

Re: [time-nuts] NAA experiments as a reference

2014-09-13 Thread Jim Lux
On 9/13/14, 7:33 AM, paul swed wrote: Charles I literally just sat down to do some math. What you say is the same thoughts I have. The information I have on NAA says that for 200bit msk its a total of a 100 hz shift +/-50 Hz. That makes no sense I would think it would be at least +/- 100 Hz.

Re: [time-nuts] NAA experiments as a reference

2014-09-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
The underlying NAA reference is UTC(USNO). How close they track it I don't know. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be

Re: [time-nuts] NAA experiments as a reference

2014-09-13 Thread paul swed
Thats what I am trying to understand. How good is good. Is it a useful replacement for wwvb. Certainly kicks butt in signal strength. Regards Paul WB8TSL On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk wrote: The underlying NAA reference is UTC(USNO). How

Re: [time-nuts] NAA experiments as a reference

2014-09-13 Thread paul swed
Well it doesn't make any sense but by using a LO of + or-150hz I do get a stable signal that at least allows me to get a sense of the stability of the carrier. I am not using the tracor d-msk-r to see this. In fact I need to relook at it may have an issue it does not seem to be doubling. A big

Re: [time-nuts] NAA experiments as a reference

2014-09-13 Thread Jim Lux
On 9/13/14, 7:13 PM, paul swed wrote: If NAA is transmitting 200 baud then I would expect the MSK carrier to be +/- 100 Hz. Not +/-50 Hz. I'd expect the total shift to be half the baud rate: 100 Hz.. ___ time-nuts mailing list --

[time-nuts] NAA experiments as a reference

2014-09-12 Thread paul swed
OK have been experimenting with a simple vlf receiver for 24 Khz. Using an HP 3335a as the LO. The Tracor 900 d-msk-r circuit. I have checked several different ways with locally locked sig gens and such to insure that something was not running loose locally and I simply do not see a coherent