Re: [time-nuts] Ships fooled in GPS spoofing attack suggest Russian cyberweapon

2017-08-14 Thread Clint Jay
I guess it would depend on the level of infrastructure available to the attacker, clock distribution is a reasonably well solved problem isn't it? There would, I suppose also be the issue of receiver swamping, you could monitor received signal levels as it's my understanding that the signals from

Re: [time-nuts] Ships fooled in GPS spoofing attack suggest Russian cyberweapon

2017-08-14 Thread Clint Jay
on, 14 Aug 2017 10:26:13 +0100 > Clint Jay wrote: > > > That it can "so easily" be spoofed (it's not a trivial hack to spoof and > > would, as far as I can see, take good knowledge of how GPS works and > skill > > to implement) is worrying and it could have

Re: [time-nuts] Very large X9.2 solar flare.

2017-09-07 Thread Clint Jay
It's been interesting watching the various web SDRs the afternoon and seeing the HF bands go silent. They were recovering a short while ago but I will keep a corner of my eye on them for the rest of the day On 7 Sep 2017 5:57 pm, "jimlux" wrote: > On 9/7/17 8:35 AM, David G. McGaw wrote: > >> N

Re: [time-nuts] R&S XSRM Rubidium Standard

2017-09-15 Thread Clint Jay
Experience has shown me that you can reasonably purchase good, working test equipment that's well within calibration tolerances if you are buying the more 'common' equipment, 6.5 digit meters, frequency counters, even a Stanford SR620... I've been very lucky with those, two spectrum analysers and

Re: [time-nuts] R&S XSRM Rubidium Standard

2017-09-16 Thread Clint Jay
I do enjoy the 'chase' of repairing things other people have discarded as beyond economic repair, my CMU200 came with a rather amusing fault as well as a good example of poor industrial design choice, it's now a very useful piece of equipment. I often scrounge faulty electronic equipment just for

Re: [time-nuts] R&S XSRM Rubidium Standard

2017-09-17 Thread Clint Jay
Yes. An instrument with a calibration certificate is not necessarily accurate but it's inaccuracies are known and can be compensated for (but only to the accuracy of the calibration reference of course.) On 17 Sep 2017 17:39, "Magnus Danielson" wrote: > Hi, > > The word "calibration" is overl

Re: [time-nuts] Symmetricom S200 PSU

2017-09-18 Thread Clint Jay
Hi Chris, if it's not blowing fuses and you're sure you've got all the capacitors ( low value ones in the primary specifically) then check all the high value resistors on the primary and continuity from reservoir capacitor to switching transistor. The average SMPSU usually doesn't deviate wildly f

Re: [time-nuts] S200 PS

2017-10-04 Thread Clint Jay
It's a very standard supply, RS do them for instance: http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/embedded-switch-mode-power-supplies-smps/4557639/ There are plenty of uncased ones for a lot less if you're willing to do some metal bashing. On 4 October 2017 at 22:20, Lists via time-nuts wrote: > I should

Re: [time-nuts] OCXO Vectron 218Y44442

2017-10-17 Thread Clint Jay
I was thinking the same as Azelio, I had a Racal 04B OCXO which refused to start until I reseated the crystal in the socket. After that, well, it's in almost daily use as a reference in a 1992 counter and has never stopped since. On 17 Oct 2017 07:18, "Azelio Boriani" wrote: > The crystal is soc

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