[time-nuts] Spectracom 8170 time clocks simple suggestion
Bob Camp
lists at rtty.us
Sun Jun 16 12:50:00 UTC 2013
Hi
On Jun 15, 2013, at 10:38 PM, Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:
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> lists at rtty.us said:
>> I think spitting the "bit" out a PC serial port line and running a 74HC
>> series switch would be pretty easy. Less than $10 in parts including the
>> pert board and the time to solder the roughly eight connections.
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> How accurate does the switching have to be?
Any error will show up as a carrier drop out. As long as 90-99% of the carrier is corrected the downstream radio should be ok.
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> Note that there are 2 dimensions to the answer. One is time, how close to
> the target time does the switching have to occur?
Best guess is that if you transition the switch in < one cycle at 60 KHz you should be fine. Call it < 15 us if you need a number on it. That's just the transition time. The code alignment would be fine at 1 ms, ok at 10 ms, and messy at 100 ms.
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> The other dimension is digital. What happens if some of the bits are wrong?
> How many can be wrong before the 8170 won't lock? There are a dozen bits at
> the end that I'm not sure I can predict, the DST/Leap/notice stuff.
That's the part that I'd like to see better definition on. I think you can do the DST and leap year bits, it's the data / notice bits that are undefined at this point.
Bob
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