[time-nuts] Delay through GPS antenna splitter/amplifier -- an answer, and a question

[Tim Shoppa]

Dr Bruce Griffiths <bruce.griffiths at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> > At the lab I worked at in the 80's, all the cables hanging on
> > the wall-racks were calibrated and labeled in nanoseconds.
> >
> > But... after the ECL signals got turned into TTL, we just didn't
> > care anymore :-).
>
> Your not quite obsessive enough.
> The cable delays (including the antenna to splitter cable) should also 
> be a multiple of half the signal period to minimise the effects of 
> residual mismatches at either end of the cable.

Signal period? Periodic signals?
If only we had the luxury!

I was not working on the side of the lab where the experiments were
vaporized, though :-).

Tim.