[time-nuts] H-Maser, but not on ebait...
Scott Lacy
time2 at arcind.net
Sun Jun 10 22:16:11 UTC 2007
> From: Neon John <jgd at johngsbbq.com>
>
> Hi Scott,
>
> Just dropping a note to thank you for putting those manuals up. I've learned a LOT
> by studying particularly the service manual.
>
Hi John,
You're welcome, and, by the way, I do have both an auto-feeding scanner (sorry about the diagonal pages, someday maybe I'll go
back and re-scan those) and a flat-bed 11x17 scanner. So if someone here needs scanning done, I'd be happy to do it, just to
contribute to the database.
> This may be a dumb question but I'm going to ask anyway. With so many factors
> affecting the hydrogen's masing (is that the correct term) frequency - temperature,
> pressure, magnetic field, etc), how can a maser be a primary standard? I understand
> that it can be an incredibly stable transfer standard but how can it be considered a
> constant?
>
What Tom said...
> One more question. I noted in the service manual where it states that the quartz
> resonator is coated with teflon to prevent "hydrogen interaction" or some such term.
> Does that mean that the monatomic hydrogen in the resonator would react with the
> quartz and be consumed or is there more a concern for sputtering of the quartz
> surface?
>
The primary concern is that contact will cause spontaneous transitions, eventually overwhelming the stimulated transitions and
killing the oscillation.
Thanks,
Scott
> John
> ---
> John De Armond
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