[time-nuts] Of rubidium life and piggy-bank anemia....

[Chuck Harris]

A very old saying:

Give a man a watch and he will always know what time it is.  Give
him two, and he is never sure.

-Chuck Harris


> This was the road to hell for me :)  I bought a Z3801A (moral equivalent 
> to the Trimble Thunderbolt) back in 2000.  I've happily used it as my 
> house reference for both PPS and 10MHz for many years confident that I 
> have a solid timebase.
> 
> For the last several years I've been designing spectrometers for radio 
> telescopes and it's been convenient and sometimes essential to have a 
> timebase that's not too much worse than a modern radio telescope.  I see 
> the lock light, I make a few plots, and I get a warm feeling that I know 
> what time it is.
>     http://www.mock.com/gps
> 
> I recently bought an Rb source for fun.  Nominally I use it as the 
> timebase for my frequency counter and run everything else off of the 
> z3801a.  Now I live in constant state of flux not really knowing what 
> 10MHz is anymore.  I need more clocks, my Rb source is amplifying my 
> personality quirks.
> 
> jeff
> 
> 
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