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LH and long-term oscillator measurement

SW
Skip Withrow
Mon, Sep 21, 2020 5:24 PM

Hello Time-Nuts,
I am interested in making some long-term (weeks/months) oscillator
measurements.  I figure GPS is the best long-term reference that I
have, so would like to use a Thunderbolt with the oscillator pulled
and the DUT substituted, and running Lady Heather (with discipline
off).

I have used this technique for many years, but never for more than the
3 day default of LH.  For all of you LH gurus out there, is there a
way to collect long-term raw data that can be processed by TimeLab or
Stable32?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Regards,
Skip Withrow

Hello Time-Nuts, I am interested in making some long-term (weeks/months) oscillator measurements. I figure GPS is the best long-term reference that I have, so would like to use a Thunderbolt with the oscillator pulled and the DUT substituted, and running Lady Heather (with discipline off). I have used this technique for many years, but never for more than the 3 day default of LH. For all of you LH gurus out there, is there a way to collect long-term raw data that can be processed by TimeLab or Stable32? Thanks in advance for any help. Regards, Skip Withrow
BK
Bob kb8tq
Mon, Sep 21, 2020 11:17 PM

Hi

An alternative:

Take the pps out of a ( or maybe several) GPS modules.

Divide your oscillator to (about) 1 pps.

Feed them into a counter(s) of some sort (TICC or 53xxx or whatever …)

Log the data to a file with any serial program you might pick.

=====

At this point you have a data file(s) that are convertible to work with just about anything.
You can feed it into TimeLab, Stable 32, Excel, ….. whatever …

Bob

On Sep 21, 2020, at 1:24 PM, Skip Withrow skip.withrow@gmail.com wrote:

Hello Time-Nuts,
I am interested in making some long-term (weeks/months) oscillator
measurements.  I figure GPS is the best long-term reference that I
have, so would like to use a Thunderbolt with the oscillator pulled
and the DUT substituted, and running Lady Heather (with discipline
off).

I have used this technique for many years, but never for more than the
3 day default of LH.  For all of you LH gurus out there, is there a
way to collect long-term raw data that can be processed by TimeLab or
Stable32?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Regards,
Skip Withrow


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Hi An alternative: Take the pps out of a ( or maybe several) GPS modules. Divide your oscillator to (about) 1 pps. Feed them into a counter(s) of some sort (TICC or 53xxx or whatever …) Log the data to a file with any serial program you might pick. ===== At this point you have a data file(s) that are convertible to work with just about anything. You can feed it into TimeLab, Stable 32, Excel, ….. whatever … Bob > On Sep 21, 2020, at 1:24 PM, Skip Withrow <skip.withrow@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello Time-Nuts, > I am interested in making some long-term (weeks/months) oscillator > measurements. I figure GPS is the best long-term reference that I > have, so would like to use a Thunderbolt with the oscillator pulled > and the DUT substituted, and running Lady Heather (with discipline > off). > > I have used this technique for many years, but never for more than the > 3 day default of LH. For all of you LH gurus out there, is there a > way to collect long-term raw data that can be processed by TimeLab or > Stable32? > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > Regards, > Skip Withrow > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com > and follow the instructions there.