Re: [time-nuts] Thunderbolt initial check out?

2010-09-20 Thread k6rtm
of information (and opinion) in the archives. 73 Bob K6RTM - Original Message - From: "russell" To: time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 4:47:54 PM Subject: [time-nuts] Thunderbolt initial check out? This is my first attempt at having a time reference for my

Re: [time-nuts] Thunderbolt initial check out?

2010-09-20 Thread francesco messineo
Hello, On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:21 PM, wrote: > Between Tboltmon and Ladyheather, you'll see that your unit either works or > it doesn't. My bet is that it will work just fine, even if the antenna is > indoors- and then you won't be able to stop watching it (esp. with lady > heather) for at

Re: [time-nuts] Thunderbolt initial check out?

2010-09-20 Thread d . seiter
- Original Message - From: "russell" To: time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 4:47:54 PM Subject: [time-nuts] Thunderbolt initial check out? This is my first attempt at having a time reference for my home lab. I have recently ordered a pulled / untested Tbol

Re: [time-nuts] Thunderbolt initial check out?

2010-09-19 Thread Neville Michie
Your biggest problem may be to find the COM port that your TBolt is connected to. You may have to configure the port to the baud rate etc of the Tbolt (or visa versa) A Tbolt will work OK with a USB-to-Serial port converter but you have to find the port allocation and baud rate. I once spent

Re: [time-nuts] Thunderbolt initial check out?

2010-09-19 Thread Mark J. Blair
On Sep 19, 2010, at 4:38 PM, Bob Camp wrote: > Lady Heather is a good program to dig into a TBolt with. It's free... It also plots oscillator and PPS error (the oscillator error plot may be off by default). If the error plots look good and both signals can be seen at the BNC outputs with an osc

Re: [time-nuts] Thunderbolt initial check out?

2010-09-19 Thread Bob Camp
Hi The unit you get may be set up for some strange location. It's possible you will need to reset it to factory defaults before it will do it's thing. Lady Heather is a good program to dig into a TBolt with. It's free... Bob On Sep 19, 2010, at 6:47 PM, russell wrote: > This is my first att

Re: [time-nuts] Thunderbolt initial check out?

2010-09-19 Thread J. L. Trantham
dicting. Joe -Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of russell Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 5:48 PM To: time-nuts@febo.com Subject: [time-nuts] Thunderbolt initial check out? This is my first attempt at having a time refere

[time-nuts] Thunderbolt initial check out?

2010-09-19 Thread russell
This is my first attempt at having a time reference for my home lab. I have recently ordered a pulled / untested Tbolt (board in box wo/ power supply) from ebay. It has a 5 day right to return if non functional. While waiting to receive the unit, I have been getting things ready here (antenn