[time-nuts] documentation for beginners

Sarah White kuzetsa at gmail.com
Sun Oct 21 16:48:43 UTC 2012


On 10/21/2012 12:39 PM, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 18:02:40 +0200
> Magnus Danielson <magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org> wrote:
> 
>>> Ah, but this is Time-Nuts.. are you sure you don't need 1E-13
>>> performance? You may not think you do today, but inevitably, the
>>> horrible uncertainty in your time stamps will gnaw at your innermost
>>> soul, and pretty soon, you'll be building choke rings, wrapping your $6
>>> receiver in an oven, cobbling together some weird combination of surplus
>>> parts.
>>
>> Hear! Hear!
>>
>> As time-nuts, we try to get the best possible performance for least 
>> possible cost. Then again, we oldies should recall that new-comers still 
>> need to get started. We should give them advice that gives them a good 
>> start while not spending too much money on a solution which isn't 
>> sufficiently expandable into the future.
>>
>> We should have a wiki for FAQ and references.
> 
> Yes, definitly. Often it's very simple information one is lacking.
> Like: where to find such information :-)
> 
> KO4BB's site is definitly worth a look, even if a bit overwhelming
> and not clearly structured (especially if you dont know what you are
> looking for).
> 
> A list of OCXOs and their benefits/drawbacks, like the list Luciano
> (aka timeok) send a couple of weeks back is also a great help.
> 
> Or Vig's presentation on quarz resonators (if you haven't read it, you should!)
> 
> Then a list of sources for time/frequency refrences and how to aquire
> them (like GPS -> GPSDO, DCF77/WWVB receivers etc). But i don't know
> of any document that does this...
> 
> And something that glues all of the above together...
> 
> The rest is just a mater of asking and finding the right documenation.
> 
> :-)
> 
> 
> 			Attila Kinali
> 

I would better appreciate that list of information if I confidently /
specifically knew how to access any of it. Any chance you have links to
the helpful information-type things you just listed? I feel almost
insulted by my ignorance right about now :(

...Like maybe I'm missing something from earlier in the mailing list. I
was following the thread with // Followup (still want a GPS-type NTP
refclock) // and now I don't know where this thread actually started. Am
I responding to the original post?

Still waking up / confused by first post I'm responding to today
--Sarah



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