Re: [time-nuts] clocks for amateur radio and astronomy (was: World's most precise.... wall clock)

2021-03-10 Thread Tim Lister
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 2:21 PM Bruce Griffiths wrote: > > Unless something akin to VLBI or pulsar timing is involved millisecond > accuracy will usually suffice for amateur astronomy. I think some of the most demanding requirements for optical astronomy by amateur/semi-pros are set by observing

Re: [time-nuts] HP 106B on Ebay

2020-03-20 Thread Tim Lister
On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 9:59 AM Perry Sandeen via time-nuts wrote: > > Gents, > This is the only one I've ever seen on ebay in 15+ years. Sold as parts only > but it has a clean 5Mhz output. No bids so far at $499. Auction ends Sat > 1:52 PDST. (I'd buy it if my discretionary financial situat

Re: [time-nuts] tracking position & orientation

2019-11-22 Thread Tim Lister
On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 9:01 AM Bob kb8tq wrote: > > Hi > > At least right now, it is the “king of the hill” in terms of low cost modules > that > will do L1 / L2. > > If the target application is precision survey work, you do want (at least) > dual > band reception. All of the post processing o

Re: [time-nuts] Precision Time Protocol – Windows 10 implementation

2019-08-08 Thread Tim Lister
On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 8:07 AM Adam Kumiszcza wrote: > > Hi everybody! My first post here, I hope the subject is adequate for this > mailing list. > > I'm using a tiny layer 1 NTP server consisting of Raspberry Pi 3B+ with > Ublox MAX-M8Q expansion board providing GNSS (currently GPS, Galileo and

Re: [time-nuts] GPS-SDR-SIM

2019-03-30 Thread Tim Lister
On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 9:01 AM jimlux wrote: > > On 3/27/19 11:49 AM, coderman via time-nuts wrote: > > Compiled the software, but... > > > he user specifies the GPS satellite constellation through a GPS broadcast > > ephemeris file. The daily GPS broadcast ephemeris file (brdc) is a merge of >

Re: [time-nuts] Frequency Ensemble

2019-03-18 Thread Tim Lister
On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 8:03 AM Rodger via time-nuts wrote: > > Tom, > > Thanks for the explanation of clock ensembles. That answered a few > questions I've had for a while. > Regarding your comments on collecting raw time data from GPS and post > processing it. Can you provide any reference inf

Re: [time-nuts] Accuracy/drift of Garmin GPS 16 HVS 1 PPS output under invalid fix conditions...

2019-03-13 Thread Tim Lister
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 4:01 PM Steve Olney wrote: > > Hi Bob, > > On 13/03/2019 1:30 am, Bob kb8tq wrote: > > Sorry if this is an ongoing / somewhat random dump of a bunch of things … I > > am not doing the > > same sort of thing you are doing. That makes a lot of this a bit less > > focused th

Re: [time-nuts] Accuracy/drift of Garmin GPS 16 HVS 1 PPS output under invalid fix conditions...

2019-03-12 Thread Tim Lister
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 4:04 PM Bob kb8tq wrote: > > Hi > > A “proper” timing device with antenna is a sub $100 sort of thing. It will be > < 100 ns pretty much forever and ever. "Proper" for pulsar radio astronomers, at least professional ones, tends to be a hydrogen maser(s)... > > Bob > > >

Re: [time-nuts] Ublox F9P multi-band GPS receiver

2019-01-22 Thread Tim Lister
On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 12:02 AM Mark Sims wrote: > > That looks like the antenna that I am currently using. The were mentioned > on the list last year, but the cheap ones quickly disappeared and the price > went to $250-$300. The seem to work very well. I get 6-10 mm error > ellipses usin

Re: [time-nuts] leapseconds, converting between GPS time (week, second) and UTC

2019-01-16 Thread Tim Lister
On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 2:00 PM Jim Palfreyman wrote: > > For the record, when using R, the package "lubridate" (which is part of the > brilliant "tidyverse") does handle leap seconds. astropy's time object in Python (http://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/time/index.html) can also handle leap seconds

Re: [time-nuts] Improved CSRS-PPP service coming

2018-07-14 Thread Tim Lister
On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 11:46 PM, Anders Wallin wrote: > Is PPP-AR "ambiguity resolution" the same (or similar) as iPPP from CNES > (code or service not publicly available AFAIK)? > iPPP time/frequency transfer is a useful improvement over PPP, see e.g. > http://cnfgg.eu/pdf/G2_2015/Gerard%20PETIT