Re: [time-nuts] WWVB teensy BPSK early experiments

2020-10-31 Thread jimlux
). Will the clock input to the MCU accept something like 10 MHz? If so solder on a cable …. At that point whatever the Teeny does is locked to the 10 MHz. If that comes from one of the $3 eBay OCXO’s, steer that with a DAC output … now you have a WWVB GPSDO. Indeed, if the Teensy needs 28 MHz, then the OCXO

Re: [time-nuts] NIST

2018-08-13 Thread Scott McGrath
the dust settles, all may be well. . . > Don > > >> On 2018-08-12 12:20, paul swed wrote: >> Like all of you I have a few wwvb clocks that work pretty well here in >> Boston. >> Certainly have written enough wwvb stuff and created various wwvb >> projects >>

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Chronverter update progress

2018-09-09 Thread paul swed
Hello to the group its time for a wwvb chronverter update. I used the loop antenna as Alex suggested. I added caps to resonate it sort of. This added a nice 6DB increase in output power as measured by a reference antenna to a HP 3586 slvm. I did try a transformer going from 50 ohm to .75 ohm

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB PM Time Questions

2020-07-30 Thread paul swed
odulation method > would not sync but the phase modulation ones always work. > > Ray, > AB7HE > > Original Message > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] WWVB PM Time Questions > From: paul swed > Date: Thu, July 30, 2020 10:39 am > To: Discussion of precise ti

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB PM Time Questions

2020-07-30 Thread Bob kb8tq
ou read the online reviews of the clock they are about 99% positive. > A lot of reviews say their clocks based on the AM modulation method > would not sync but the phase modulation ones always work. > > Ray, > AB7HE > > ---- Original Message > Subject: Re: [time-nu

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB PM Time Questions

2020-07-30 Thread rcbuck
they are about 99% positive. A lot of reviews say their clocks based on the AM modulation method would not sync but the phase modulation ones always work. Ray, AB7HE Original Message Subject: Re: [time-nuts] WWVB PM Time Questions From: paul swed Date: Thu, July 30, 2020 10:39 am

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Signal Generator

2018-09-05 Thread Wayne Holder
I've reworked my WWVB Simulator so it can now run on a slightly modified, 328-based Arduino (swapped in a 16.36 MHz crystal for the standard 16 MHz.) The new code is also now using a GPS module to set the time from the GPS $GPRMC message and my BALDR clock just syncs up nicely. I used

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Chronverter update progress

2018-08-27 Thread Bob kb8tq
, but nuke 2 Hz low on this or that device. Bob > On Aug 27, 2018, at 11:12 AM, Tim Shoppa wrote: > > The consumer WWVB wall clocks use a single 60kHz crystal as a front end > filter (not as an oscillator). > > Unloaded Q of a small tuning fork crystal is often 30,000 or so. (You can

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Dephaser Question

2020-10-23 Thread paul swed
John I was looking for a lot of things around BPSK and SDR and more. Had not hit this repository yet. But it has the piles of functions that would be useful. I noted it had a I & Q oscillator. So maybe the way this all works is you grab these functions and line them up. In looking at the wwvb

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Dephaser Question

2020-10-24 Thread John C. Westmoreland, P.E.
it has the piles of functions that > would be useful. I noted it had a I & Q oscillator. So maybe the way this > all works is you grab these functions and line them up. In looking at the > wwvb SDR for AM mentioned here by Chris thats what I had started to > understand. > Really

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Chronverter update progress

2018-08-27 Thread Mike Feher
-nuts] WWVB Chronverter update progress Hi Well …. 1Hz at 60KHz is …. errr … (off to Google Calc …) …. 16.67 ppm. That’s a pretty major lock range for a TCXO. It’s likely > 10X what an OCXO will do. What the bare crystal in a watch will do … who knows. Bob > On Aug 26, 2018, a

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Chronverter update progress

2018-08-27 Thread paul swed
ob kb8tq > Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2018 6:34 PM > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement < > time-nuts@lists.febo.com> > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Chronverter update progress > > > > Hi > > > > Well …. 1Hz at 60KHz is …. errr … (off to Goo

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Chronverter update progress

2018-08-30 Thread paul swed
The UnusualElectronics Chronverter with NEO 6 GPS, 9.6 MHz oscillator. dividers and such are all up and working. Watching GPS time, Spectracoms and Truetime clocks all tick at the same time while listening to WWV. exactly as they should. Now I have a alternate for wall clocks should WWVB

[time-nuts] WWVB Translation/Simulation from GPS Data

2018-09-05 Thread Andy Backus
I have taken a similar approach to Wayne's. When WWVB blinks off my plan is to have a single GPS receiver in the house with a good antenna and to distribute from it a digital signal that will key little 60 kHz units for each clock. Attached is source code (well commented) for an Adafruit GPS

Re: [time-nuts] WWV Doppler Shift

2018-11-20 Thread John Ackermann. N8UR
nutes (which >is exactly what you do with WWVB) the only time you get past 0.1 ppm is >the >same sort of day/night propagation mode shift that drives WWVB nuts …. > >Bob > >> On Nov 20, 2018, at 5:35 PM, Donald E. Pauly >wrote: >> >> That was the fi

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Dephaser Question

2020-10-17 Thread paul swed
documentation on the wwvb receiver. I will guess this is going to have an effect in the actual program. Regards Paul WB8TSL On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 12:06 PM John C. Westmoreland, P.E. < j...@westmorelandengineering.com> wrote: > Hello Time Nuts, > > Maybe this should be added

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Dephaser Question

2020-10-18 Thread John C. Westmoreland, P.E.
d the TFT display is a bit less clear. I have all > of the details but need to go over them carefully. The teensy 4.0 is > slightly different in the pins used as compared to the various > documentation on the wwvb receiver. I will guess this is going to have an > effect in the actual prog

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Chronverter update progress

2018-08-28 Thread paul swed
. I just jammed time into it several days and its been fairly good with power ups and down. Its impressive. Though not in an ultimate time-nuts way. GPS just assures it is accurate. But there is a lot of flexibility. Main goal of this whole project is to replace wwvb if it goes away. If it does

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Chronverter update progress

2018-08-28 Thread paul swed
can adjust its offset. I just jammed time > into it several days and its been fairly good with power ups and down. Its > impressive. Though not in an ultimate time-nuts way. > GPS just assures it is accurate. But there is a lot of flexibility. > Main goal of this whole project is to r

Re: [time-nuts] Effects of Simple GPS jamming on GPSDO's ?

2018-08-31 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi I think we have a little bit of confusion here. WWVB is not going to help anybody navigate. It’s not going to help track people with ankle bracelets or trucks stopping at bars. Car thieves jamming Lojack still happens. Turn iWWVB on or off, this stuff still goes on. None

Re: [time-nuts] WWV and legal issues

2018-09-01 Thread Magnus Danielson
5 PM, Bob kb8tq wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> That works fine if you are doing things manual to check a local >>> standard. If you are trying to >>> disipline a few thousand cell towers 24 hours a day … not so much. It >>> also works for >>>

Re: [time-nuts] WWV and legal issues

2018-09-01 Thread Scott McGrath
24 hours a day … not so much. It also > works for > checking frequency. What modern systems need is time. That gets you into a > whole > world of resolving and identifying individual edges. The WWVB signal really > was never > set up for this. Loran-C is an example of a sign

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Chronverter update progress

2018-09-10 Thread paul swed
veryone. > > -Bob N3XKB > > > On Sun, Sep 9, 2018, 9:39 AM paul swed wrote: > > > Hello to the group its time for a wwvb chronverter update. I used the > loop > > antenna as Alex suggested. I added caps to resonate it sort of. This > added > > a nice 6DB

Re: [time-nuts] WWV and legal issues

2018-08-31 Thread Bob kb8tq
things manual to check a local standard. If > you are trying to > disipline a few thousand cell towers 24 hours a day … not so much. It also > works for > checking frequency. What modern systems need is time. That gets you into a > whole > world of resolving and identifying indi

Re: [time-nuts] WWV Doppler Shift

2018-11-20 Thread Donald E. Pauly
That was the first time that I had seen an xy plot of WWV versus a stable crystal oscillator. It is even worse than I thought. I had to look up FRK to see that it is a rubidium standard. I talked to Jim Maxton the chief engineer of WWVB many times around 1995. At the time I was in Gila Bend 80

[time-nuts] Some old Time & Frequency stuff for sale, eastern Ontario, Canada

2021-02-06 Thread Martin VE3OAT
ve outputs (distribution amplifier) to remote sites. Was working fine when taken out of service when WWVB changed to phase modulation. With original manual and diagrams. $30. 5. Kinemetrics/TrueTime 60-TF LF Receiver/Frequency Comparator. * See Note. Phase comparison receiver for 60 kHz, compact construc

Re: [time-nuts] Some old Time & Frequency stuff for sale, eastern Ontario, Canada

2021-02-07 Thread John Franke
, 1.0, 5.0, or 10.0 MHz. Modified to add 10 MHz, 100 kHz > and 1 Hz TTL outputs, and to remove 12VDC from 10 MHz sine wave > outputs (distribution amplifier) to remote sites. Was working fine > when taken out of service when WWVB changed to phase modulation. > With original manual

Re: [time-nuts] More ES100 WWVB Measurements

2018-12-31 Thread paul swed
age: 7 > > Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 04:04:22 -0800 > > From: "Tom Van Baak" > > To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" > > > > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] More ES100 WWVB Measurements > > Message-ID: <96BB388753294278

Re: [time-nuts] More ES100 WWVB Measurements

2018-12-31 Thread Joseph Gwinn
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] More ES100 WWVB Measurements > Message-ID: <96BB388753294278A9CDE96C1EA7D9AE@pc52> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Hi Graham, > > That's very nice work. And you have uncovered several unusual eff

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Disciplined Oscillator

2019-04-08 Thread Bob kb8tq
e 10 us range off of the code? It’s certainly worth trying. My guess is that indeed you can with enough samples. Once you are looking at carrier phase all is not perfect. Around sunrise and sunset, you will have a tough time with WWVB. You also have the basic issue that propagation *does* swing yo

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Dephaser Question

2020-10-12 Thread John C. Westmoreland, P.E.
Chris Howard wrote: > > I received a good pointer about doing the BPSK implementation > but have just not gotten it done. > > Chris Howard > > > > On 10/12/20 11:02 AM, jimlux wrote: > > On 10/12/20 7:40 AM, paul swed wrote: > >> John really appreciate the

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Dephaser Question

2020-10-12 Thread paul swed
gotten it done. > > > > Chris Howard > > > > > > > > On 10/12/20 11:02 AM, jimlux wrote: > > > On 10/12/20 7:40 AM, paul swed wrote: > > >> John really appreciate the pointer. Though it doesn't help wwvb BPSK > > >&

Re: [time-nuts] What's available in the way of DSP for new WWVB?

2020-10-16 Thread jimlux
and for me at least the next thing to take a run at. Regards Paul WB8TSL Hi Paul: I have looked at the Teensy 4.0 for use as a WWVB SDR receiver. The problems I have are: 1.) PJRC (the designer/manufacturer) has gone out of their way to block access to the standard ARM SWD programming interface

[time-nuts] WWVB PM Time Questions

2020-07-22 Thread rcbuck
and run the output through a 60 kHz crystal filter. I have to order the crystals since I don't have any on hand. It will take a couple of weeks to get the front end working. I am in Phoenix so the WWVB signal is of decent quality here even during the daytime. My 25 year old cheap Casio watch will sync

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB PM Time Questions

2020-07-22 Thread paul swed
eed to build up the > RF amp and run the output through a 60 kHz crystal filter. I have to > order the crystals since I don't have any on hand. It will take a couple > of weeks to get the front end working. > > I am in Phoenix so the WWVB signal is of decent quality here even durin

Re: [time-nuts] Rebroadcasting time signals [WAS: La Crosse Clocks - ]

2020-12-27 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi > On Dec 27, 2020, at 10:30 AM, Tim Shoppa wrote: > > Presumably any "rebroadcast" of WWVB is done in the spirit of near-field > communications where any far-field radiation falls off like 1/r^3 from a > small inductive transmitter loop. > > A loop the

Re: [time-nuts] Rebroadcasting time signals [WAS: La Crosse Clocks - ]

2020-12-27 Thread Tim Shoppa
Presumably any "rebroadcast" of WWVB is done in the spirit of near-field communications where any far-field radiation falls off like 1/r^3 from a small inductive transmitter loop. A loop the size of your entire house would be "small" in terms of 60kHz wavelength. Unintended c

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB teensy BPSK early experiments

2020-10-31 Thread Bob kb8tq
i >>>> …..errr….. >>>> Can you pull the clock oscillator off the Teensy board? (Yes, the soldering >>>> iron would be involved). >>>> Will the clock input to the MCU accept something like 10 MHz? If so solder >>>> on a cable …. >>>&

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB teensy BPSK early experiments

2020-10-31 Thread Bob kb8tq
pull the clock oscillator off the Teensy board? (Yes, the >> soldering >>> iron would be involved). >>> >>> Will the clock input to the MCU accept something like 10 MHz? If so >> solder >>> on a cable …. >>> >>> At that point whate

[time-nuts] Re: NIST 60KHz message

2021-03-14 Thread rcbuck
Jeffry, Yes, the sync once per day is due to the Arduino software. The ES100 needs to be told when to start receiving the WWVB signal and when to go to sleep. You can modify the software to change the time and number of syncs per day. I would suggest you change it to 2am CA time. The daily sync

[time-nuts] Re: Isotemp OCXO question

2021-08-21 Thread Bob kb8tq
pinout: >> >> http://www.isotemp.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Legacy59-21.pdf >> >> On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 3:56 PM Robert DiRosario wrote: >> >>> I got a Trak Systems "Time Code Translator" from ebay. It's a 1U box >>> with l

Re: [time-nuts] Setting Time on WSPR Radio Transmitter

2018-06-22 Thread Andy Backus
A cheap WWVB watch will do the trick. Andy Backus From: time-nuts on behalf of Brooke Clarke Sent: Friday, June 22, 2018 9:58 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: [time-nuts] Setting Time on WSPR Radio Transmitter Hi: I'm

Re: [time-nuts] Loss of NIST transmitters at Colorado and Hawaii

2018-08-13 Thread Richard Solomon
e-nuts] Loss of NIST transmitters at Colorado and Hawaii Group, This subject needs some additional detail. I found an article with comments at https://swling.com/blog/2018/08/nist-fy2019-budget-includes-request-to-shutdown-wwv-and-wwvh/ It is not clear whether WWVB will still be available f

Re: [time-nuts] NIST

2018-08-13 Thread D. Resor
er. But not so good for wristwatches, where the expectation is to run at uW power levels. I for one would be very irritated at having to take my watch off my wrist and put it on a charging stand every night. So if this shutdown comes to pass, I'll be looking for an inexpensive GPS-to-WWVB converte

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Chronverter update progress

2018-08-26 Thread Bob kb8tq
018 at 5:31 PM, Bob kb8tq wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi >>>>>> >>>>>> You can do the 14 db deep modulation with a tristate gate and a pair >>>> of >>>>>> resistors. >>>>>> Ground th

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Chronverter update progress

2018-08-26 Thread paul swed
t;> > WB8TSL >>> > >>> > On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 5:31 PM, Bob kb8tq wrote: >>> > >>> >> Hi >>> >> >>> >> You can do the 14 db deep modulation with a tristate gate and a pair >>> of >>> >> resisto

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Chronverter update progress

2018-08-29 Thread paul swed
cy filter on the output of the > WWVB gizmo may be an issue. Temperature impacts the value of the > components and that value change impacts the phase of the signal…. > > Bob > > > On Aug 28, 2018, at 9:33 PM, paul swed wrote: > > > > LPF filter added 2.2mH

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Chronverter update progress

2018-08-29 Thread paul swed
Mark I looked at the 7 and the pulse out wasn't obvious. Indeed at that cost it would be great if it did produce 60 KHz as it would eliminate the whole counter chain + power. The chronverter wants GPS data so its a nice answer. I have some 6s here so will start with that. Love low power and crazy

Re: [time-nuts] NIST

2018-09-01 Thread Magnus Danielson
Hi, On 08/31/2018 12:18 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message <96e995c4-5ca2-af02-9738-0a6d87a9f...@pacific.net>, Brooke Clarke > writes: > >> But it's extremely hard to make a jammer for WWVB (60 kHz) [...] > > You can do it city-scale with a

Re: [time-nuts] Lots of Off Topic discussion

2018-09-01 Thread Brian Lloyd
On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 9:13 AM, David G. McGaw wrote: > I consider saving WWV/WWVH/WWVB to be ON topic. They may not be as > precise as some on this list like to achieve, but they are publicly > available methods of time dissemination. I am very concerned that factions > of N

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Signal Generator

2018-09-06 Thread Wayne Holder
I was able to sort out my issue with the DST bits with the help of the code Andy Backus recently published. I believe my code should now be ready for anyone who's curious to try out. Complete details are available on the following page:

Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 170, Issue 10

2018-09-06 Thread Dave B via time-nuts
ignals out there already, but it's unlikely we in the UK will be bothered by you in the US doing local domestic time signal tricks. 73. Dave B. (G8KBV) On 06/09/18 00:12, time-nuts-requ...@lists.febo.com wrote: > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Translation/Simulation from GPS Data

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Chronverter update progress

2018-08-29 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi Even when dividing from 48 MHz straight to 60 KHz, the uBlox is going to do a pulse drop / pulse add to keep things on frequency. For a wall clock that probably is not an issue. For a phase locking receiver it’s not quite as clear. The 60 KHz edge is going to hop by about 21 ns every so

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Chronverter update progress

2018-08-29 Thread paul swed
Mark OK I did indeed find what you suggested pretty neat most likely will order one and see whats what. That certainly simplifies old 60 KHz and in fact may be traceable. Pretty amazing. On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 11:39 AM, paul swed wrote: > Mark I looked at the 7 and the pulse out wasn't

[time-nuts] 10MHz standard for comms receivers

2018-10-01 Thread Bob Betts
Hi All. Over the years, I have experimented with WWVB and GPS and Rubidium timing to establish a 10MHz Standard for LO sync in communications receivers. My career has kept me away from the hobby for some time and, frankly, I am not very well versed in some of the timing techniques that I read

[time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

2018-12-05 Thread gandalfg8--- via time-nuts
I feel guilty now:-) Obviously MSF is strong up here but I was able to receive it from Rugby when I first moved north using a directional LF antenna and was under the impression coverage was still ok throughout the UK, although it seems I was wrong on that. The French station is TDF transmitted

Re: [time-nuts] simple phase finder

2018-12-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <4a8ff8d6-70b2-782e-cb79-21c7e9a49...@earthlink.net>, jimlux writes: >If I were decoding WWVB to start, I'd break my samples up into 0.1 >second or 0.5 second chunks and process them to see what the carrier >phase is. With stable signals like this, it is a b

Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

2018-12-05 Thread Magnus Danielson
Hi, On 12/5/18 3:47 PM, Attila Kinali wrote: > On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 06:29:01 -0800 > "Richard (Rick) Karlquist" wrote: > >> Interesting: isn't 162 kHz within the European >> Long Wave Broadcast Band? Wouldn't there be a >> problem with QRM from these megawatt stations? >> Excuse the naive

Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

2018-12-04 Thread jimlux
On 12/4/18 8:59 AM, Adrian Godwin wrote: I understand why a low-volume shipment of what started as a board costing a few pennies costs $50, but does that simply mean that low-cost parts aren't the right answer for this sort of application ? How would an SDR based on a raspberry pi zero, a

Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

2018-12-05 Thread Club-Internet Clemgill
Hi, The Allouis phase modulation is as follows : - sawtooth phase shift of the 162kHz carrier with 40rad/sec slope => +/- 1 rad shift => +/- 6,36Hz carrier frequency shift - sequence of full sawtooth periods of length 100msec => frequency 10Hz - one full period sawtooth codes a « 0 » bit - two

[time-nuts] Allouis 162 kHz time signal [was: Re: new WWVB BPSK dev board]

2018-12-05 Thread Pieter-Tjerk de Boer
On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 08:23:59PM +, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message , > Club-Intern > et Clemgill writes: > > >- One bit only is coded per second in each minute => 59 bits available > >because... > >- 59th second is silent (no phase modulation) > > I belive this is

Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

2018-12-04 Thread jimlux
On 12/4/18 1:48 PM, Attila Kinali wrote: On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 13:12:48 -0800 jimlux wrote: I maintain that it's the lack of a cheap RF front end that is the sticky point. Doing a 2-3 stage transistor based amplifier should give the signal enough gain to be sampled with the ADC of a uC. I have

Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

2018-12-04 Thread Iain Young
On 04/12/18 23:08, jimlux wrote: On 12/4/18 2:52 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message <20181204224816.bfef2926d942b52db8061...@kinali.ch>, Attila Kinali writes: On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 13:12:48 -0800 jimlux wrote: I maintain that it's the lack of a cheap RF front end that is the

Re: [time-nuts] Portable Time Standard - Additional Clarification

2019-01-12 Thread Jim Harman
need a stand-alone, easily portable unit with display; the unit may be > used > where GPS, cell phone, or WWVB are not available. Low power consumption is > highly desirable. > > I have seen advertisements of marine quartz chronometers listing an > accuracy as > good as <0.01 s

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Disciplined Oscillator

2019-04-08 Thread jimlux
On 4/7/19 10:37 PM, Peter Monta wrote: Does NIST publish the transmitter bandwidth? I've never seen it, but I haven't done a serious search. Maybe somebody near enough to get a clean signal could measure it. What does a spectrogram look like? Some of the KiwiSDR receivers are close enough

Re: [time-nuts] HP 10509A Antenna Available

2019-03-13 Thread Graham / KE9H
ailable > > I've got a Hewlett Packard 10509A that is a part of the HP 117A VLF > Comparator. I've not used this antenna since March 2013 when WWVB changed > the modulation scheme and need to move it along or to the curb if no one > needs it. > Send me a note to wa3...@aol.com or w

Re: [time-nuts] eLORAN to turn on next week for a test

2020-02-07 Thread Scott McGrath
the same for WWVB. Fortunately thats quite easy to do. Wonder if the pre-amps still good? Regards Paul WB8TSL ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com a

Re: [time-nuts] Bob Roehrig K9EUI SK

2020-01-04 Thread Chris Waldrup
t;> January 4, in Batavia, IL. Bob was a member of this list, and many of you >> may remember him from articles and projects published in 73 Magazine (and >> others) such as 1994's "Using the World's Most Accurate Frequency Standard" >> which in great detail he walked through

Re: [time-nuts] 10811 performance

2020-01-05 Thread Wes
ou needed to keep them powered at all times.  Afterwords, I was approached by a woman Sgt. who told me that when she was sent out to a silo to make an adjustment, that from the sound of it included an hour or so comparison to a WWVB receiver, she instead just threw the '5245 in the truck and used it

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Dephaser Question

2020-10-17 Thread John C. Westmoreland, P.E.
Hello Time Nuts, Maybe this should be added to this thread - this page is actually pretty good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWVB 73's, John AJ6BC On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 12:50 PM John C. Westmoreland, P.E. < j...@westmorelandengineering.com> wrote: > Hello Time Nuts, > >

Re: [time-nuts] What's available in the way of DSP for new WWVB?

2020-10-09 Thread paul swed
Hi Hal I think your asking for an A/D if this is a receiver. I can speak to the front end. In the the US the signal in the east is some 10-60 uv during the day. To leverage the full scale of the A/D that has to be amplified to the A/Ds full scale. Say 1-2 V. Thats easily some 90DBv of gain. So a

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB PM Time Questions

2020-08-18 Thread paul swed
Ray I would tend to agree but I actually am unclear on the context. Did you actually build a d-psk-r? The output should always remain in a given phase after its in operation. It can never be in absolute phase unless far more sentence decoding occurs to inform the system its correct at 0 or

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Dephaser Question

2020-10-24 Thread Graham / KE9H
Paul: The easiest way to convert a single sample into an I-Q representation is to have a two phase local oscillator. You multiply the incoming signal against the primary phase output of the oscillator for the I channel, and multiply the same sample against the 90 degree offset output for the Q

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Dephaser Question

2020-10-24 Thread jimlux
On 10/24/20 3:53 PM, paul swed wrote: Antenna and filtering are not a problem for me. I use the 10' X 10' square loop and about 800' of wire with a cap to resonate at 60 KHz and then a preamp really to drive 140' of coax. Currently using a modified KD2BD receiver frontend but using a 350 Hz xtal

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Dephaser Question

2020-10-25 Thread Andy Talbot
That doesn't appear to give you 1/4 the base sampling rate as you suggest with "... to sample at 4 times the desired rate..." I do something similar on a 1kHz tone, generating I/Q at 1kHz sampling rate on a bandwidth up to 500Hz, ie 750 - 1250Hz Samples at 4kHz are S1, S2, S3, S4 Then I = S1 + S2

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB PM Time Questions

2020-08-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
paul swed writes: > Decoding the actual timecode is a serious pain. Not really if you approach it from the right side. A lot of people try to decode these timecodes by looking for a perfect timegram. That works badly in low SN. First Tune your discriminator to have three output

Re: [time-nuts] another source of time...

2020-08-05 Thread Mark Haun
themselves are encrypted so you wouldn't be able to derive anything except a frequency reference.  The advantage would be they are substantially more powerful than WWVB.  Does much VLF leak out into space? Mark On 05-Aug-20 3:44 PM, jimlux wrote: > I was researching potential calibration sour

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB PM Time Questions

2020-07-23 Thread Mark Haun
On 23-Jul-20 4:35 AM, Detlef Schuecker via time-nuts wrote: > Hi, > >> principles. The STM32L4 series which I often use has a pretty decent >> ADC: fast (5 MSPS), with about 11 good bits in differential mode, and >> "proper" hardware downsampling (called the DFSDM in the manual). If the > Yes,

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB PM Time Questions

2020-07-30 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi > On Jul 30, 2020, at 5:11 PM, Hal Murray wrote: > > >> I'm sure there are a lot of transistors in their IC to handle all the phase >> tracking and time decoding. > > They aren't doing phase tracking, just decoding time data. All that crap > about Atomic Time is just advertising BS. > >

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB PM Time Questions

2020-07-30 Thread Hal Murray
> I'm sure there are a lot of transistors in their IC to handle all the phase > tracking and time decoding. They aren't doing phase tracking, just decoding time data. All that crap about Atomic Time is just advertising BS. Moore's Law applies to transistors. It doesn't matter if you use

Re: [time-nuts] Rebroadcasting time signals [WAS: La Crosse Clocks - ]

2020-12-27 Thread Charles Steinmetz
mentioned the potential for harmful interference extending beyond one's own property. (Tom mentioned it today, including the possibility of legal implications.) This is especially true of people, like some on this list, who reportedly run a big loop around their house ("so that all their

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB teensy BPSK early experiments

2020-11-11 Thread paul swed
I kind of wonder if you don't have a flakey display. I did not add the terminating R and everything has always worked fine on the display. After I quit using the 3" jumper cables to the audio card and stacked the modules, the audio worked correctly. My display is on a set of 6" jumpers and has

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB teensy BPSK early experiments

2020-11-10 Thread John C. Westmoreland, P.E.
n a > > lot > > > of > > > > discussion and development regarding > > > > the enhancement of the performance of these TFT displays - also - > > > there's a > > > > beta version of the arduino libraries - > > > > Teensyduino 1

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB teensy BPSK early experiments

2020-10-31 Thread jimlux
On 10/31/20 7:26 PM, Bob kb8tq wrote: Hi On Oct 31, 2020, at 9:45 PM, jimlux wrote: On 10/31/20 4:46 PM, Bob kb8tq wrote: Hi Looking at the data sheet for the MCU, they really do want 24 MHz and that’s about it. I suspect you would do better to take your 10 MHz OCXO and run it into one

Re: [time-nuts] Resurrecting True Time 60-DC

2020-12-30 Thread paul swed
t; > I have had a old True Time 60-DC that stopped working years ago when > WWVB added phase modulation sitting on my self. Well I finally got the > inspiration and the time to resurrect it... well at lease the vacuum > fluorescent display part of it. Add in one Raspberry PI and NTP, and

Re: [time-nuts] small multi-timezone display

2021-01-08 Thread Bob kb8tq
off the shelf multizone > display that accepts NTP or receives WWVB? > > Because, after all, if I glance up and want to know what time it is in DC, I > want it accurate to microseconds. > > > (My wife keeps setting other clocks in the house fast for one reason or > anothe

Re: [time-nuts] small multi-timezone display

2021-01-08 Thread paul swed
ocks and put them there. > > But, being a member of this list - anyone know of a off the shelf > multizone display that accepts NTP or receives WWVB? > > Because, after all, if I glance up and want to know what time it is in > DC, I want it accurate to microseconds. > > > (My

Re: [time-nuts] Long Wave Radio-Frequency standard testing

2021-01-16 Thread Gilles Clement
Hi Paul, > I guess I would ask what the goal of the effort might be. > It seems like a good answer. One thing I was amazed buy was that back in > the 1960s HP wrote some papers on using WWVB. What they did was check the > offset at distance everyday about the same time. This offered

Re: [time-nuts] Long Wave Radio-Frequency standard testing

2021-01-16 Thread JF PICARD via time-nuts
HP journal On Saturday, January 16, 2021, 12:29:24 PM GMT+1, Gilles Clement wrote: Hi Paul, > I guess I would ask what the goal of the effort might be. > It seems like a good answer. One thing I was amazed buy was that back in > the 1960s HP wrote some papers on using W

Re: [time-nuts] small multi-timezone display

2021-01-13 Thread Lux, Jim
re".   Shelf edge display is interesting. When I was sitting gazing upon the shelf, I was thinking battery powered clock, and if it has NTP (or WWVB), all the better, to keep it set. 28" - 71cm across On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 10:08 AM Didier Juges wrote: Well, the latency in the php web pa

Re: [time-nuts] The need for quartz crystals and mains frequency (was: Mains Frequency)

2021-02-13 Thread ed breya
Hi Hal, I have one of these big (maybe 14" dia) old office clocks, still working, hanging on the garage wall at the farm, next to a modern WWVB clock. I don't worry about what time it says, but I sometimes look to estimate total power outage time (can be quite a lot up there) since the

[time-nuts] Where do people get the time?

2021-12-25 Thread Hal Murray
now, I would probably setup one of the battery powered clocks that listens to WWVB. When were they first widely available? I think I used my watch back in the pre-GPS days when I was taking care of the time servers on Xerox-PARC's network. I'm not sure why I thought my watch was any good.

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Dephaser Question

2020-10-24 Thread paul swed
t;> John I was looking for a lot of things around BPSK and SDR and more. > >> Had not hit this repository yet. But it has the piles of functions that > >> would be useful. I noted it had a I & Q oscillator. So maybe the way > this > >> all works is you grab th

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Dephaser Question

2020-10-24 Thread John C. Westmoreland, P.E.
t;> Had not hit this repository yet. But it has the piles of functions that >> would be useful. I noted it had a I & Q oscillator. So maybe the way this >> all works is you grab these functions and line them up. In looking at the >> wwvb SDR for AM mentioned here by Chris that

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Chronverter update progress

2018-08-27 Thread Bob kb8tq
al Message- >> From: time-nuts On Behalf Of Bob kb8tq >> Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2018 6:34 PM >> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement < >> time-nuts@lists.febo.com> >> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Chronverter update progress >> >

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Dephaser Question

2020-10-23 Thread John C. Westmoreland, P.E.
y different in the pins used as compared to the various >> documentation on the wwvb receiver. I will guess this is going to have an >> effect in the actual program. >> Regards >> Paul >> WB8TSL >> >> On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 12:06 PM John C. Westmoreland

Re: [time-nuts] NIST

2018-09-01 Thread Magnus Danielson
tantaneous. Operators are always pressed by cost > constraints. Adding > anything beyond the minimums … not going to happen. > > The result is that there are no systems out there that use WWVB or WWV other > than wrist watches > and wall clock like devices. Utilities (cell phones, in

Re: [time-nuts] NIST

2018-09-01 Thread Bob kb8tq
that go in them similarly take years to get onto the >> market. Once designed >> deployment is far from instantaneous. Operators are always pressed by cost >> constraints. Adding >> anything beyond the minimums … not going to happen. >> >> The result is that there ar

Re: [time-nuts] NIST

2018-08-31 Thread Bob kb8tq
beyond the minimums … not going to happen. The result is that there are no systems out there that use WWVB or WWV other than wrist watches and wall clock like devices. Utilities (cell phones, internet, finance ) run with something else. Converting them to a secondary “something” is a many years sort

[time-nuts] Fwd: [New post] 100 Year Old Atomic Clock

2019-09-25 Thread djl
L. Charvat posted: "Precision time is ubiquitous today thanks to GPS and WWVB. Even your Macbook or smartphone displays time which is synchronized to the NIST-F1 clock, a cesium fountain atomic clock (aka the 'Atomic Clock') that is part of a global consortium of atomic cloc" NEW POST O

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