[time-nuts] Project GREAT - Galloping Galileo version

[Bob kb8tq]

Hi

What, no 0.046 +/- -.002” vent hole? 

That used to be a requirement on this sort of thing. 

Bob

> On Dec 8, 2018, at 6:35 PM, jimlux <jimlux at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> On 12/8/18 11:30 AM, Bob kb8tq wrote:
>> Hi
>> You might be surprised by how well the CSAC does in orbit. There have been a lot of cases
>> over the years where a device has done much better once it is away from “poking fingers”
>> like pressure and other semi-random stuff ….
>> Bob
> 
> Oh, I'm pretty sure it will do well in a very benign environment - I joked with the reps that if we could figure out how to vent the enclosure after on orbit, the whole "getter filling up" issue would go away.
> 
> I don't know that I'll be able to measure the performance.  We sort of added it at the last minute, to be able to demonstrate the ability measure & calibrate an OCXO without a GPS 1pps, and didn't give a huge amount of thought to how to do real performance measurement.
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