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

[wa1zms at att.net]

But TVB has added:
"That three clocks are better than two.....so measure, measure, measure!"

Or some words to that point.

-Brian, WA1ZMS

-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com]On
Behalf Of Chuck Harris
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:35 PM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Of rubidium life and piggy-bank anemia....


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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