[time-nuts] How good is my T-bolt...??
Mike Monett
XDE-L2G3 at myamail.com
Sun Dec 21 18:02:07 UTC 2008
> Hello, Time-Nutters
[...]
> Hi, Bruce, Mike, et al
> Your points are all well taken! However, all I wanted to know (and
> all I asked the standards lab) was: How much "ballpark" error will
> I have when using my T-bolt as a reference to confirm the
> frequency of my 10GHz ham transmitter? Yes, from a Time-Nuts
> perspective, my question is crude and unsophisticated, but I
> simply did not have any interest in knowing anything about the
> T-bolt except how good it is when used as a reference for checking
> the frequency output of my 10GHz transmitter. I really did not
> care about ADEV, MDEV, XYZDEV or any other alphabet soup criteria,
> and yes, I know that this confirms that I am a primitive
> knuckle-dragging troglodyte with respect to the subtle nuances of
> time and frequency standards.
> It's kinda like looking at the speedometer on my pickup truck as I
> drive down the Interstate highway. : My only interest is that it
> be accurate enough to use for my particular application. Same goes
> for my T-bolt. Can I trust it to get me within 10Hz at 10GHz? +/-
> 100Hz? +/- 1KHz?
> As for what the lab used to make the measurements, all I can say
> is that the lab has several time/frequency references, one I saw
> was about the size of a refrigerator called a CH1-75 Active
> Hydrogen Maser. Big - looked expensive, blinking lights, pretty
> colors. Impressed me.
> I'll go back to my cave, now.
> Cheers!!
> Mike Baker
> WA4HFR
> Gainesville, Florida, USA
Hi Mike,
It is refreshing to see such sweet innocence. For most of us, those
days are gone forever.
Your problem is you only have one clock. As soon as you get two, you
ask a very simple question: which one is right?
But that only makes things worse.
That question leads you over the edge and down the slippery slope
that brings most of us to this forum. The same thing happened to
Tom, and look at how many clocks he has now.
Right now, you don't have enough clocks. The only real solution to
your problem, is to get another TBolt:)
Regards,
Mike Monett
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