[time-nuts] Happy H-mas!

[Tom Van Baak]

You can see pendulum clocks swing and hear them tick. On the other hand, 
quartz, cesium, and GPS references are silent and invisible. It's Rb and 
H-masers that have a special glow. Here's one of mine:

http://leapsecond.com/museum/ch175/coil.htm

which also answers the question from Anders Wallin, "Any ideas on what 
the spiral is":

http://www.anderswallin.net/2016/01/h-maser-glow/

/tvb


On 12/24/2020 8:02 AM, Magnus Danielson wrote:
> Fellow time-nuts,
>
> It is the time of year to wish people a Merry Christmas and God Jul.
> However, doing this in time and frequency world is hard, until I recall
> that the color of the dissociator light of a hydrogen maser is close
> enough, so I therefore present you the Happy H-mas of EFOS-10!
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus