Hi Indeed, this could be a new wave of TBolts into the market. My fear is that those handling it are not going to sell off the “rejects”. They’ll just toss them in the trash. Bob > On Aug 10, 2017, at 8:00 PM, paul swed <paulswedb@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just remember you are taking on E911 responsibility. > Not that brave. > But come on all those tbolts going in the trash. Sounds like goodies. > Regards > Regards > Paul > WB8TSL > > > On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 7:55 PM, Adrian Godwin <artgodwin@gmail.com> wrote: > >> While it wouldn't be difficult to build such a device, manufacturing a >> decent quantity in less than 2 weeks to beat Trimble would be a tall order. >> >> There are, however, programmable converters : all the hardware you need and >> just needs some suitable software. For example : >> >> http://www.kksystems.com/programmable-protocol-converters/ppc-4-h2-c.html >> >> It does rather more than you need, there may be cheaper alternatives. >> >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 6:24 PM, Brad Dye <brad@braddye.com> wrote: >> >>> The Trimble Thunderbolts are used in many Radio Paging Systems to >>> synchronize their transmitters in simulcast mode. Systems that are using >>> the models affected by the 1024 week epoch are currently off the air or >>> functioning poorly. This is a very serious issue because many doctors and >>> nurses as well as first responders rely on their pagers for emergency >>> notification. >>> >>> Trimble’s only distributor, Novotech, did not know about it and had no >>> inventory of the new replacement E series Thunderbolt GPS Receivers. >>> Trimble says they are shipping new units from their overseas factory in >>> about 2 weeks — thats the best they can offer! >>> >>> I read here on the Time Nuts messages that some are considering: "some >>> in-line device that re-writes the serial data as it comes out of the >>> Thunderbolt” >>> >>> Does anyone plan to do this? Or does anyone have any ideas for a >>> short-term solution. >>> >>> Any suggestions would be sincerely appreciated. >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> >>> Brad Dye >>> Editor, The Wireless Messaging News >>> P.O. Box 266 >>> Fairfield, IL 62837 USA >>> Telephone: 618-599-7869 >>> Skype: braddye >>> http://www.braddye.com >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com >>> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/ >>> mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >>> and follow the instructions there. >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com >> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/ >> mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. >> > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there.

On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Brad Dye <brad@braddye.com> wrote: > > I read here on the Time Nuts messages that some are considering: "some > in-line device that re-writes the serial data as it comes out of the > Thunderbolt” > An in-line device makes sense if you don't have control of whatever you have the T-Bolt plugged into. This would be the case in a cell tower. But if the T-Bolt is plugged into a computer in your own house, I'd think it would be far easier to modify the software your computer runs. LH and NTP are the only two most of us would run and both are open source and easy to change. Four of five lines of code, max. Building an inline device would be easy, even an Arduino could work but it would need more software and time to write it than a simple patch to NTP or LH. Patches are free, and thousands of people can use them just by downloading but an in-line device has to be built for each user. -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California