[time-nuts] Thunderbolt accuracy...??

[Magnus Danielson]

Rex skrev:
> Richard W. Solomon wrote:
>> ..."junk GPSDO"... . Are you sure of that statement ?
>> The Cal Lab where I retired from had one of those "junk GPSDO's"
>> that they used. The only difference between theirs and mine (that
>> I built) was the 3 orders of magnitude difference in price !!
>>
>> 73, Dick, W1KSZ
>>
>>   
> 
> He said, [a] "junk GPSDO that I salvaged from telco equipment."
> 
> A poor choice of words, perhaps, but I think the intention may be that 
> the telco took it out of service for some reason and "junked" it. Not 
> necessarily an adjective denoting quality. More than 90 % of my 
> high-tech equipment is "junk".

We can be happy that telcos etc. work on a system thinking. While they 
shift systems they can't handle little details like re-use of GPSDOs 
even thought they would still do a good job even for the new system.

Cheers,
Magnus