[time-nuts] Thunderbolt accuracy...??
Magnus Danielson
magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Sat Dec 20 23:31:35 UTC 2008
Rex skrev:
> Richard W. Solomon wrote:
>> ..."junk GPSDO"... . Are you sure of that statement ?
>> The Cal Lab where I retired from had one of those "junk GPSDO's"
>> that they used. The only difference between theirs and mine (that
>> I built) was the 3 orders of magnitude difference in price !!
>>
>> 73, Dick, W1KSZ
>>
>>
>
> He said, [a] "junk GPSDO that I salvaged from telco equipment."
>
> A poor choice of words, perhaps, but I think the intention may be that
> the telco took it out of service for some reason and "junked" it. Not
> necessarily an adjective denoting quality. More than 90 % of my
> high-tech equipment is "junk".
We can be happy that telcos etc. work on a system thinking. While they
shift systems they can't handle little details like re-use of GPSDOs
even thought they would still do a good job even for the new system.
Cheers,
Magnus
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