[time-nuts] Time Nuts at PTTI this past week
W4wj at aol.com
W4wj at aol.com
Sun Dec 10 09:30:28 EST 2006
In a message dated 12/10/2006 2:04:27 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
K3IO at verizon.net writes:
In my posting last night, I inadvertently forgot to include one other
personage who falls under the "Time Nuts" umbrella.
The PTTI selected Dr Dave Mills (W3HCF) of the Univ of DE as the
recipient of the 2006 Distinguished Service Award (for previous
recipients, see page xii of
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ptti/ptti2006/PTTI2006AdvPgm.pdf). As he
accepted the award, Dave told that his professional career in computer
science and his interest in timing grew from his amateur radio roots.
Dave is well known as the Father and Referee of the NTP and SNTP network
timing protocols. For info on NTP see Dave's web page at
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/
<http://www.eecis.udel.edu/%7Emills/ntp/> and the official NTP page at
http://www.ntp.org/.
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The PTTI meeting also remembered with great sadness Dr Len Cutler who
led HP (and then Agilent) into the time/frequency business by directing
the development of Cesium, Rubidium and Hydrogen clocks at HP Labs. A
bit of Len's history can be gleaned at
http://www.agilent.com/metrology/bio-cutler.shtml . Len passed away this
past September (see http://www.ieee-uffc.org/fcmain.asp?page=cutler) and
the community misses him.
73, Tom
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WOW! Here is a neat story (pre-NTP,pre-internet, pre-etc!!)
about Dr. Mills...
I had a CW QSO many years ago (pre-PC) with W3HCF.
He sent his QSL along with a print out of my CW text.
Now this was many years before any of the commercial
code readers hit the market.
Dave fed the audio from his home receiver to his work computer
where the decoding and printout was done! A return monitor
at his desk showed the success or failure of the attempt!
Because this was a very early "attempt" at decoding morse,
the success of the decode was very dependent on the "timing"
of the sending operator i.e. how good was the received CW!!
This era was also pre-CW keyboard.
It turned out that Dave called me because of my good "timing!"
The short note from K3IO brought the W3HCP QSO to mind.
Now I need to dig out the card, and the printout!!
TNX Tom and congratulations to Dr. Dave... Good memories...
73, Don, W4WJ
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