[time-nuts] Results parts selection + commercial assembly poll?

Bob Bownes bownes at gmail.com
Mon May 16 17:15:14 UTC 2011


I was more wondering why the discussion never moved, not why the
project discussion died here. But this is probably enough bandwidth
wasted again. :)



On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Bob Camp <lists at rtty.us> wrote:
> Hi
>
> The issue that killed it was at least one member objecting quite strenuously
> to the bandwidth used.
>
> The counter project was the initial spark that started it all, but the
> objective of the polls was more general. You can indeed build a piece of
> hardware and then tell it what it is after it's built. The one you have
> might be a general purpose counter, the one somebody else has might be
> something totally different.
>
> With modern parts, design isn't to hard, the big constraint on it is
> construction techniques. Most of the cheap / neat stuff you would use is
> tough to put on a board. There's no use in starting a design effort and
> ruling out all the likely solutions after it's started.
>
> Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
> Behalf Of Bob Bownes
> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 11:56 AM
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Results parts selection + commercial assembly poll?
>
> I'll add that for some reason the discussion never morphed over to an
> alternate list created just to discuss a counter project without
> taking up bandwidth here. Not sure that there was enough interest.
>
> Other Bob
>
>
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Bob Camp <lists at rtty.us> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> The polls ran for less than a day before they drew considerable fire for
>> using too much bandwidth. Since we still had several steps to go (what to
>> design, what to design it with, and who to design what), it was dropped.
>> Doing a group general purpose FPGA based timing board isn't going to
> happen
>> within the perceived bandwidth limits here.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
>> Behalf Of Tijd Dingen
>> Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 5:04 PM
>> To: time-nuts at febo.com
>> Subject: [time-nuts] Results parts selection + commercial assembly poll?
>>
>> Incidentally, did something ever come of these two polls? I was trying
> find
>> the conclusion / results, but could not find it on the list. Entirely
>> possible that I am blind for which I apologize in advance. Anyone know
> what
>> came of it?
>>
>> regards,
>> Fred
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