Re: [time-nuts] Re Certified Time Nut Certificate

2006-11-05 Thread Tim Shoppa
Doug Millar said the following on 11/03/2006 09:57 PM: Should we be considered certified time nuts? or just certifiable? Depends on whether you're traceable to NIST... But some of us know folks who are! Wear one of these (or make your brother-in-law wear one of these,

Re: [time-nuts] Re Certified Time Nut Certificate

2006-11-05 Thread Magnus Danielson
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Shoppa) Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Re Certified Time Nut Certificate Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 09:25:12 -0500 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doug Millar said the following on 11/03/2006 09:57 PM: Should we be considered certified time nuts? or just

Re: [time-nuts] Re Certified Time Nut Certificate

2006-11-05 Thread Tom Van Baak
http://www.leapsecond.com/pages/atomic-bill/ I laugthed myself into pieces over that one. ;O) It needs a thad of update thought, neither HP or Agilent sells these wrist- watches anymore, Symmetricom is the manufacture these days. OK, I fixed the HP link. Thanks. /tvb Cheers, Magnus -

Re: [time-nuts] Re Certified Time Nut Certificate

2006-11-05 Thread Tim Shoppa
Magnus Danielson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, my car doesn't have GPS clock or Atomic clock, it just have Fords standard quartz clock, uncalibrated and all. Considering the environment, automotive clocks are remarkably good. (I'm talking about the quartz ones here, although I certainly have a

Re: [time-nuts] Re Certified Time Nut Certificate

2006-11-05 Thread tom
AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Re Certified Time Nut Certificate Doug Millar said the following on 11/03/2006 09:57 PM: Should we be considered certified time nuts? or just certifiable? Depends on whether you're traceable to NIST... But some of us know folks who are! Wear

[time-nuts] Re Certified Time Nut Certificate

2006-11-04 Thread Doug Millar
Hi John, Ok. Great idea. We should make up a certificate that looks like an NIST cert. that certifies that if we have a working Cesium or hydrogen maser standard or two or more standards that can be traceable to NIST, you can become a Certified Time Nut. It will look nice hanging

Re: [time-nuts] Re Certified Time Nut Certificate

2006-11-04 Thread Jack Hudler
Scan one at RBG 600 DPI or better; I wee what I can do. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug Millar Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 9:35 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: [time-nuts] Re Certified Time

Re: [time-nuts] Re Certified Time Nut Certificate

2006-11-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
You really need to get Borgmans permission to include the Zits nanosecond strip on the certificate. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can

Re: [time-nuts] Re Certified Time Nut Certificate

2006-11-04 Thread Bill Janssen
Doug Millar wrote: Hi John, Ok. Great idea. We should make up a certificate that looks like an NIST cert. that certifies that if we have a working Cesium or hydrogen maser standard or two or more standards that can be traceable to NIST, you can become a Certified Time Nut. It will

Re: [time-nuts] Re Certified Time Nut Certificate

2006-11-04 Thread tom
: Saturday, November 04, 2006 1:39 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Re Certified Time Nut Certificate Doug Millar wrote: Hi John, Ok. Great idea. We should make up a certificate that looks like an NIST cert. that certifies that if we have a working Cesium or hydrogen maser standard or two or more

Re: [time-nuts] Re Certified Time Nut Certificate

2006-11-04 Thread Bill Hawkins
: Saturday, November 04, 2006 2:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Re Certified Time Nut Certificate whats this lesser standard in the gps and rubidium stuff. i have a hp 117a tracking receiver that prints days with straight lines

Re: [time-nuts] Re Certified Time Nut Certificate, hp 117A, WWVB

2006-11-04 Thread Tom Van Baak
If your 117A, listening to WWVB, draws straight lines then something is wrong with it. You should see a change between day and night. Ah, unless you live near Fort Collins, CO. Bill Hawkins A flat line isn't always good news. There should be a nice little phase bumps every hour. Do your

Re: [time-nuts] Re Certified Time Nut Certificate

2006-11-04 Thread David Forbes
At 2:43 PM -0600 11/4/06, tom wrote: whats this lesser standard in the gps and rubidium stuff. i have a hp 117a tracking receiver that prints days with straight lines from my rubidium osc. also three hp 59309a clocks that say i have the correct time for weeks running from the standard. hope that

Re: [time-nuts] Re Certified Time Nut Certificate, hp 117A, WWVB

2006-11-04 Thread Bill Hawkins
Tom, tf.nist.gov doesn't seem to exist. Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Van Baak Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 7:21 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Re Certified

Re: [time-nuts] Re Certified Time Nut Certificate

2006-11-04 Thread Bill Hawkins
Certified Time Nut Certificate At 2:43 PM -0600 11/4/06, tom wrote: whats this lesser standard in the gps and rubidium stuff. i have a hp 117a tracking receiver that prints days with straight lines from my rubidium osc. also three hp 59309a clocks that say i have the correct time for weeks

Re: [time-nuts] Re Certified Time Nut Certificate

2006-11-04 Thread Neon John
On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 22:24:36 -0500, Daun Yeagley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gee, maybe some of you need to get a Bulova Accutron. I think that is one of the things that got me started on the time-nut wagon back in the sixties. My wife bought me one for our first Christmas together back in 1967.