[time-nuts] Re: Assistance Please- need atomic clock time datasets for study

2021-07-18 Thread Ole Petter Ronningen
The BIPM Circular-T would be a good place to start. 30s phase data used to be available from each participating lab IIRC - they just updated their webpages, so that may have been moved out of the public eye. BR, Ole On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 9:17 PM Dwayne wrote: >Fellow Time-nuts; >I am

[time-nuts] Water in connectors

2021-03-27 Thread Ole Petter Ronningen
Hi, All I am trying to chase down a 2-3-4 ns/day "anomaly" in a gpsdo I am working on - it could be temperature sensitivity in the antenna (cheap patch jobbie), or I suspect my sealing of the outside connectors may not be watertight. I just wanted to ask the list of anyone know of/has an estimate

[time-nuts] "Q for dummies"

2021-01-26 Thread Ole Petter Ronningen
Hi, All I am going to give a presentation to non-nuts, and in one of the slides I touch on Q - not wanting to spend more than a sentence or two on the subject, I wonder if the following analogy works: "A quality long-stemmed, thin-walled wine glass will ring for a long time after we give it a

Re: [time-nuts] Happy H-mas!

2020-12-28 Thread Ole Petter Ronningen
Better late than never! Happy H-Mas from EFOS-3 as well! And a happy new year to all! BR, Ole On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 6:48 PM Tom Van Baak wrote: > You can see pendulum clocks swing and hear them tick. On the other hand, > quartz, cesium, and GPS references are silent and invisible. It's Rb

Re: [time-nuts] xDEV "spread" on parts of data

2020-09-16 Thread Ole Petter Ronningen
Michael Wouters wrote: > Hello Ole > > Have you looked at dynamic Allan variance ? Patrizia Tavella wrote a few > papers about this. > > Cheers > Michael > > On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 at 7:28 pm, Ole Petter Ronningen < > opronnin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >

Re: [time-nuts] Quality of timing mode GPS vs survey accuracy

2020-05-09 Thread Ole Petter Ronningen
Just to add one datapoint to the discussion, I am presently looking at a professional grade receiver ($20k+++), tracking GPS/GLONASS/GALIELO/BEIDOU, 44 sats total as I type this. It reports standard deviation of the XYZ coordinates of 0.76m, 0.44m and 1.3m respectively. It is not crystal clear how

Re: [time-nuts] time-nut conferences.

2020-01-04 Thread Ole Petter Ronningen
> > Other time-nuts that have > > been at IFCS/EFTF are Ole Petter Ronningen and Javier Serano. > > Javier usually comes, when he has something to present and Ole if his > > wife permits it ;-) > > Ole comes when I have tricked him to submit something... but now he

Re: [time-nuts] Sawtooth Error Correction, WAS: Capturing NMEA and TICC timestamp data in time-correlated way?

2019-09-15 Thread Ole Petter Ronningen
Precisely. On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 6:03 PM Alberto di Bene wrote: > On 2019-09-15 14:12, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote: > > > Most GPS receivers with 1PPS outputs are only able to align the 1PPS to > the > > nearest edge of some internal clock. In addition, in most GPS > receivers, >

Re: [time-nuts] Used Hydrogen Maser

2019-07-10 Thread Ole Petter Ronningen
Asked and answered before I think, but as far as I know a new maser is in the 2-300K euro range, a used one you can perhaps expect to pay about a tenth of that - if you can find one. Not that many around, but some of the older ones on VLBI sites are getting a bit long in the tooth. If you are

Re: [time-nuts] It is possible to "recharge" a hydrogen maser?

2019-07-05 Thread Ole Petter Ronningen
Just change the bottle, or hydride cartridge, whichever it is. But it is also very possible that the ion pumps are at the end of their lives, but these can also be replaced "easily". What type if maser is it? Ole On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 7:01 PM Luiz Paulo Damaceno < luizpauloeletric...@gmail.com>

Re: [time-nuts] Updating the unit of,time: the second.

2019-05-29 Thread Ole Petter Ronningen
Hi, Dana My understanding is that all criteria should be met, but the list might be refined. Dr. Martin Milton, Director of the BIPM gave a talk on the subject on this years IFCS/EFTF; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsgl8AHBU7c (redefinition of the second at around 33 minutes, but the whole talk

[time-nuts] Paper tip: Atomic Clocks for Geodesy

2019-05-07 Thread Ole Petter Ronningen
Hi, all I just stumbled across a nice review paper from last year: ( https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1803/1803.01585.pdf) that perhaps others will find interesting. Primarily geared towards geodesy as the title indicates, but it also looks at several techniques of interest to time-nuts, such

Re: [time-nuts] Week Number Rollover: Ashtech Z12

2019-04-07 Thread Ole Petter Ronningen
PPP works on observations - i.e. pseudorange and accumulated doppler range from the antenna to the satellites - it does not know or care what position the reciever thinks it is at, so that makes sense. Ole On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 8:02 PM John Ackermann N8UR wrote: > I got the NRCan results

Re: [time-nuts] Question about noisetypes and ADEV

2018-10-28 Thread Ole Petter Ronningen
this list. > > On 10/26/18 11:34 AM, Ole Petter Ronningen wrote: > > Hi, all > > > > I'm simulating some noise to try to improve my somewhat sketchy > > understanding of what goes on with the various noise types as shown on an > > ADEV plot. Nothing fancy, ~

Re: [time-nuts] Question about noisetypes and ADEV

2018-10-28 Thread Ole Petter Ronningen
Hi, Tom! I have looked at the pages you link to many times, they really are very good - my goal here was to get down to the nitty-gritty myself, just understand the details better. Regarding possible bias in the Excel RNG, this was my first hunch as well, but when I repeated the experiment with

Re: [time-nuts] Question about noisetypes and ADEV

2018-10-26 Thread Ole Petter Ronningen
Hi, Attila > I see two issues here: If your random numbers are indeed between 0 and 1, > as you write, then they are uniformly distributed, and not normally > distributed. This will give you a slight bias when integrating. > You are correct, my statement was imprecise - I generate numbers

[time-nuts] Question about noisetypes and ADEV

2018-10-26 Thread Ole Petter Ronningen
Hi, all I'm simulating some noise to try to improve my somewhat sketchy understanding of what goes on with the various noise types as shown on an ADEV plot. Nothing fancy, ~3600 points of gaussian random numbers between 0 and 1 in excel, imported into Timelab as phase data, scaled to ns. I

Re: [time-nuts] 53230A TIC and TimeLab

2018-10-04 Thread Ole Petter Ronningen
On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 1:40 PM Magnus Danielson wrote: > Who-oh! OK. This means that one should intentionally let a number of > samples pass before trusting it. > Precisely. But, crucially, discard 1-2 samples *since the last INIT* - which may not be obvious without some investigation. It is a

Re: [time-nuts] 53230A TIC and TimeLab

2018-10-04 Thread Ole Petter Ronningen
On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 11:00 AM Magnus Danielson wrote: > Regardless, the 53230A does a filtered frequency estimation, which is > great for achieving high precision frequency measures quickly, but not > good for ADEV measures, as it introduces a bias due to the lower > bandwidth of the filtering

Re: [time-nuts] 53230A TIC and TimeLab

2018-10-04 Thread Ole Petter Ronningen
Somewhat longer answer; I assume you have set up a frequency measurement (as opposed to time interval) 1. Timelab uses SCPI-command "READ" to fetch readings from the 53230a (and most other counters *). The 53230a does not return gap free frequency measurements in this case. There will be deadtime

Re: [time-nuts] EFOS2 Maser acting up :(

2018-08-14 Thread Ole Petter Ronningen
Corby, When you write "I.F. Level", I assume you mean the 5.7KHz going to the PLL - or are you monitoring some other signal? Re LO; I would expect any issue with the LO would be directly observable on the output from the Maser - only an isolation amp in between. Have you measured the EFC on the