Re: [time-nuts] Interesting application for really nutty timing

2020-06-02 Thread jimlux
On 6/2/20 3:24 PM, Tim Shoppa wrote: Hal, at one point shortly after their discovery in the late 60’s, Pulsars were considered as a possible primary frequency standard. Then atomic clocks became more amenable as lab standards. As to time-nut measurements on pulsars, check this out: https://ar

Re: [time-nuts] Interesting application for really nutty timing

2020-06-02 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi Back in the 1970’s this was a fun dinner conversation with the JPL guys. It always seemed to end up with “in a year or two we’ll have it worked out ….” Bob > On Jun 2, 2020, at 5:49 PM, Hal Murray wrote: > > I watched the video of an astronomy talk yesterday. (Info below. I thought > i

Re: [time-nuts] Interesting application for really nutty timing

2020-06-02 Thread Tim Shoppa
Hal, at one point shortly after their discovery in the late 60’s, Pulsars were considered as a possible primary frequency standard. Then atomic clocks became more amenable as lab standards. As to time-nut measurements on pulsars, check this out: https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.1054 Millisecond and

Re: [time-nuts] Interesting application for really nutty timing

2020-06-02 Thread Tom Van Baak
Hal, This will keep you busy for an hour: "Listening for Gravitational Waves Using Pulsars" https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/listening-for-gravitational-waves-using-pulsars "Spotting gravitational waves using pulsar ticks" https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/113/32/8878.full.pdf "Detection of Gr

Re: [time-nuts] TAPR TICC and TADD-2 Minis

2020-06-02 Thread jimlux
On 6/2/20 2:06 PM, Tom Holmes wrote: Frank... What is interesting is that all of your traces appear to be identical except for the vertical scale factor, which suggests that the ringing you are seeing, which is much improved from your earlier plots, is still a little bit of a problem. I am go

[time-nuts] Interesting application for really nutty timing

2020-06-02 Thread Hal Murray
I watched the video of an astronomy talk yesterday. (Info below. I thought it was good.) During the Q&A, the speaker discussed the possible options for detecting different wavelengths of gravity waves. For very long wavelengths, she mentioned the possibility of watching pulsars. Has anybody

Re: [time-nuts] TAPR TICC and TADD-2 Minis

2020-06-02 Thread Tom Holmes
Frank... What is interesting is that all of your traces appear to be identical except for the vertical scale factor, which suggests that the ringing you are seeing, which is much improved from your earlier plots, is still a little bit of a problem. I am going to guess that , as Bob pointed out,

Re: [time-nuts] TAPR TICC and TADD-2 Minis

2020-06-02 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi There’s a lot more to setting this stuff up past the basics. Not all attenuators have good return loss …. (and on and on). This quickly gets pretty far of topic for Time Nuts. Simply keep in mind that the measurement gear and measurement technique very much get into the results of almost anyth

Re: [time-nuts] differences among TADD-2, TADD-3, PulsePuppy, TADD-2 mini

2020-06-02 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
What, the names aren't self-explanatory? :-) TADD-1 -- broadband (0.1 - >30 MHz) analog distribution amplifier TADD-2 -- 5/10 MHz 6 channel divider (1k to 1 PPS) TADD-2 Mini -- 1/2.5/5/10 MHz to PPS single channel divider; very tiny TADD-3 -- 6 channel PPS distribution amplifier (no divider) Puls

[time-nuts] differences among TADD-2, TADD-3, PulsePuppy, TADD-2 mini

2020-06-02 Thread jimlux
I'm trying to distinguish among all these options.. TADD-2 and TADD-3 are 5/10 in, multi out - 3 is just a new 2? TADD-2 mini is 1,2.5,5,10 in and one out PP has a way to solder a packaged oscillator on the board, lower power, and puts out 1, 10, and 100pps. ___

Re: [time-nuts] Microstepper

2020-06-02 Thread Christophe Huygens
Hello Anders, I did the original design of the Crystek locked 1G CRO + 9912. Let me know if you have questions. br Christophe http://distrinet.cs.kuleuven.be/people/showMember.do?memberID=u0013167 prof. dr. ir. Christophe Huygens IMEC-KULeuven-DistriNet __