In a message dated 12/10/2006 2:04:27 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, K3IO@verizon.net writes: In my posting last night, I inadvertently forgot to include one other personage who falls under the "Time Nuts" umbrella. The PTTI selected Dr Dave Mills (W3HCF) of the Univ of DE as the recipient of the 2006 Distinguished Service Award (for previous recipients, see page xii of http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ptti/ptti2006/PTTI2006AdvPgm.pdf). As he accepted the award, Dave told that his professional career in computer science and his interest in timing grew from his amateur radio roots. Dave is well known as the Father and Referee of the NTP and SNTP network timing protocols. For info on NTP see Dave's web page at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/ <http://www.eecis.udel.edu/%7Emills/ntp/> and the official NTP page at http://www.ntp.org/. -------------------------- The PTTI meeting also remembered with great sadness Dr Len Cutler who led HP (and then Agilent) into the time/frequency business by directing the development of Cesium, Rubidium and Hydrogen clocks at HP Labs. A bit of Len's history can be gleaned at http://www.agilent.com/metrology/bio-cutler.shtml . Len passed away this past September (see http://www.ieee-uffc.org/fcmain.asp?page=cutler) and the community misses him. 73, Tom _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com _https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_ (https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts) WOW! Here is a neat story (pre-NTP,pre-internet, pre-etc!!) about Dr. Mills... I had a CW QSO many years ago (pre-PC) with W3HCF. He sent his QSL along with a print out of my CW text. Now this was many years before any of the commercial code readers hit the market. Dave fed the audio from his home receiver to his work computer where the decoding and printout was done! A return monitor at his desk showed the success or failure of the attempt! Because this was a very early "attempt" at decoding morse, the success of the decode was very dependent on the "timing" of the sending operator i.e. how good was the received CW!! This era was also pre-CW keyboard. It turned out that Dave called me because of my good "timing!" The short note from K3IO brought the W3HCP QSO to mind. Now I need to dig out the card, and the printout!! TNX Tom and congratulations to Dr. Dave... Good memories... 73, Don, W4WJ

In message <c62.7bb0a8d.32ad7404@aol.com>, W4wj@aol.com writes: >WOW! Here is a neat story (pre-NTP,pre-internet, pre-etc!!) >about Dr. Mills... Peter Salus' book about the Internet also puts the blame for the invention of the internet squarely in Daves turban. Congratulations Dave! -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.

I am surprised that the page linked below makes no reference and provides no link to the BIPM http://www.bipm.fr/en/home/ I realize they have not been the most active at developing and promoting time standards lately, but they are the official site for such standards for many countries. (the fact they are in France has (almost) nothing to do with my gripe :-) Didier KO4BB W4wj@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 12/10/2006 2:04:27 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, > K3IO@verizon.net writes: > > In my posting last night, I inadvertently forgot to include one other > personage who falls under the "Time Nuts" umbrella. > > The PTTI selected Dr Dave Mills (W3HCF) of the Univ of DE as the > recipient of the 2006 Distinguished Service Award (for previous > recipients, see page xii of > http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ptti/ptti2006/PTTI2006AdvPgm.pdf). As he > accepted the award, Dave told that his professional career in computer > science and his interest in timing grew from his amateur radio roots. > > Dave is well known as the Father and Referee of the NTP and SNTP network > timing protocols. For info on NTP see Dave's web page at > http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/ > <http://www.eecis.udel.edu/%7Emills/ntp/> and the official NTP page at > http://www.ntp.org/. >