Re: [time-nuts] Estate Sale find

2007-08-04 Thread Alan Melia
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Hi Warner there have been queries asking for Rycoms on the LWCA message board and reflector I will risk your wrath and forward a posting there for you Regards Alan G3NYK - Original Message - From: M. Warner Losh <[EMA

Re: [time-nuts] Scopes and 1 PPS signals?

2007-10-23 Thread Alan Melia
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY I presume it has a calibrated delayed TB how about using that ?? Alan G3NYK - Original Message - From: "Brooke Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" Sent: Tuesday, Octob

Re: [time-nuts] Scopes and 1 PPS signals?

2007-10-23 Thread Alan Melia
function the window time base can be no more than 10X faster than the main > trace which would be 20 ms/sq, way too slow to see the pulse. > > Have Fun, > > Brooke Clarke > http://www.PRC68.com > http://www.precisionclock.com > http://www.prc68.com/I/WebCam2.shtml 24/7 Sky

Re: [time-nuts] Parallel voltage regulators

2007-10-24 Thread Alan Melia
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Hi Tom I dont think you need the resistors these are current limited and the sense is inside the chip so the resistors dont do anything (you are thinking of a negative feedback effect). All that happens in paralled operation is

Re: [time-nuts] Loran antenna

2007-11-13 Thread Alan Melia
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Hi Didier, you will find a lot of information on small LF antennas on the Long Wave Club of America site www.lwca.org look in particular for an "active" voltage probe antenna by Roeloff Bekker PA0RDT. This is proving quite resi

[time-nuts] Montronics 100-7 manual/spec ??

2007-11-15 Thread Alan Melia
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Hi All, I know this unit is aging a bit and there are probably better ways of comparing standards in 2007 but I have this "Frequency Comparator Model 100-7" by Montronic Inc sitting in my rack. In essence it is similar to the Tr

Re: [time-nuts] Super stable BVA Quartz resonators... BVA??

2007-12-09 Thread Alan Melia
Berndt I believe you are describing a "Triax" connector I found them through Trompeter but I believe they are sold by Farnell and RS Components in the UK. The same connector was used I think on some of the HP system digital voltmeters. Cheers de Alan G3NYK - Original Message - From: "Bernd

Re: [time-nuts] need recomendation for a portable 10mhz reference oscilator

2007-12-11 Thread Alan Melia
Hi John, Andy Talbot G4JNT developed the a Jupiter based GPSDO for just this purpose, several are used by hill-toppers in the UK. http://www.scrbg.org/g4jnt/freqlock.htm The idea was that it would settle and be accurate in the time it took to seet up the microwave part of the station. I hope that

Re: [time-nuts] device as sniffer/ promiscuous mode GPIB devices?

2008-01-28 Thread Alan Melia
There is also a battery handheld unit by Racal Dana which will trigger and display captured bus transactions. Also the function is on some logic analysers. I have low end BlackStar LA that has an IEEE-488 "personality card"all acquired cheaply on "that auction site" Alan G3NYK - Original M

Re: [time-nuts] Tracor 895A

2008-01-31 Thread Alan Melia
Hi Nic these are difficult to find for free but Ridge Electronics have one for Tracor 895 at $20. I just got a Montronics Freq Diff meter manual from them. Alan G3NYK - Original Message - From: "Nic McLean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement'"

Re: [time-nuts] Clock Powers of Ten

2008-01-31 Thread Alan Melia
Hi, I dont know about other counties but the oad shedding is certainly still dont this way in the UK, BUT the incremental frequency adjectments are corrected for the mean daily frequency to be correvt at 06:00 in the morning so that all the clocks read correctly and we get to work on time!! Des

Re: [time-nuts] GPS-Attached Equipment Lightning Protection

2008-02-29 Thread Alan Melia
Hi All, all the comment has been about in-line protectors so far. We in the UK do dot have the ferocity of lightning that is seen in some parts of the USA but surely like all problems "prevention" is better. It is probably not 100% but would it not be better to have a higher metal rod say 6 feet ab

Re: [time-nuts] Frequency reference

2008-04-20 Thread Alan Melia
It does not matter how many references you build you will never know how good they are. There can only one judgement "goodness", and this is comparison with the national standard. You reference may even be "better" that a national standard but must be judged against the national standard. Most coun

Re: [time-nuts] LED reliability and sub cables

2008-04-30 Thread Alan Melia
Mm LED operation is basically a bulk effect whereas the reliability of transistors depends more on surface effects. In 1960 AT&T chose to go with Germanium, but the British Post Office chose the new silicon planar technology for future submerged cables. Previously Dr Gilbert Metson had written

Re: [time-nuts] sub cables

2008-05-01 Thread Alan Melia
Hi Didier yes trawlermen's axes are a worse problem than anchors !! I have seen a pic of the remenants of an axe head with a large chunk taken out of it. The fisherman survived but was a bit shaken ! Of course the cut was made near the end on the continental shelf so the volts were quite high!! Al

Re: [time-nuts] sub cables...and GBR

2008-05-01 Thread Alan Melia
cross-boundary view of projects). Alan G3NYK - Original Message - From: "Neon John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 9:46 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] sub cables > On Thu, 1 May 2008 11:1

Re: [time-nuts] Low frequency crystal

2008-05-20 Thread Alan Melia
Hi Robert in the days before TTL dividers there were quite a few vert low frequency cuts. I think that one is a flexural bar designated "NT cut". I have also seen crystals of lower than that made in the "gapped ring" format which oscillate a little like a tuning fork. ( I think I have seen one of t

Re: [time-nuts] Administrivia -- febo.com outage

2008-05-28 Thread Alan Melia
Thanks for your efforts John it shows how interesting it is as there were queries very soon after that !! Best Wishes Alan G3NYK - Original Message - From: "John Ackermann N8UR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" ; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wedne

Re: [time-nuts] Phil's Fluke Monotronics equipment

2008-06-17 Thread Alan Melia
Bill, I bought an original manual from Ridge last year for a Montronics Model 100 Frequency Difference meter, at very reasonable cost despite post to the UK from Ridge Equipment, and I have just found, and bought, a copy of the Fluke 100-7 which I am presuming was a "bought in" design from Montron

Re: [time-nuts] New leap second

2008-07-04 Thread Alan Melia
On the 4th July it (the Sun) was actually at its furtherst point from earth so we were getting less radiation .did your burghers take longer to cook ?? :-)) Alan G3NYK - Original Message - From: "Chuck Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurem

Re: [time-nuts] 74ac112 and 74ac164 sources and 200 Ohm resistors for frequency divider board?

2008-07-12 Thread Alan Melia
Hi Dave Rapid Electronics in Colchester do SMBs the eaiest way to get 200 ohms might be 2 by 100ohm in series..though it wont fit a ready made 1206 size pcb :-(( www.rapidelectronics.co.uk or www.rapidonline.com is one they quote now I think both work. I dont think you will get 74ACs there th

Re: [time-nuts] Hameg HM8125 Time/frequency Standard

2008-07-22 Thread Alan Melia
Hi Ian I dont know whether it works for that unit, but try the Hameg site. http://www.hameg.com/66.0.html There are "almost" complete manuals for all the units (well certainly the scopes!) You may find that there are no schematics in the English versionsdownload the German versions (which you m

Re: [time-nuts] Hameg HM8125 Time/frequency Standard

2008-07-22 Thread Alan Melia
downloaded the operating manual a while back. > Tried your tip and looked at the German version, but no luck either. > > Thanks for the suggestion though. > > Cheers, > > Ian. > > - Original Message - > From: "Alan Melia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > T

[time-nuts] GPS shielding by power lines?

2008-08-09 Thread Alan Melia
Hi all, in the process of setting up a GPS time standard for a Radio Astronomy facility (amateur) we installed a GPS receiver in a small cabin with a translucent roof, thinking that would not impede the GPS signal. After a lot of head scratching as to why we were not getting the performane we got

Re: [time-nuts] GPS shielding by power lines?

2008-08-10 Thread Alan Melia
- Original Message - From: "David Ackrill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2008 8:30 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] GPS shielding by power lines? > Alan Melia wrote: > > Hi all, in the pr

Re: [time-nuts] GPS shielding by power lines?

2008-08-10 Thread Alan Melia
Hi Tom Brilliant I hadnt thought of the fields actually affecting the operation of the electronics! that is certainly something that might be interesting to check. I note there lines have three "phase" feeds but no neutral wire so they must use ground as the return path to any unbalance currents.(?

Re: [time-nuts] GPS shielding by power lines?

2008-08-10 Thread Alan Melia
Hi Didier, thanks for that idea, yes they were all "pucks" all Garmin two intended for marine use and one was a old Garmin GPSIIplus with a mag "puck". I have a Trimble Palisade that I have not got round to working on yet, but I understand that there are problems putting this version into NMEA mod

Re: [time-nuts] GPS shielding by power lines?

2008-08-11 Thread Alan Melia
Hi David yes indeed and the qualify of the fix imporves as we move away at right angles to the linedespite some trees and a tall hedge on one side. Dramatic and quite repeatable. Alan G3NYK - Original Message - From: "David McGaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of precise time and

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