[time-nuts] Opera coordinator has resigned

[Dr. David Kirkby]

On 04/ 1/12 03:33 PM, Jim Lux wrote:
> On 4/1/12 3:01 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
>> On 03/31/12 09:38 PM, Jim Lux wrote:

>>> I don't think so. Yes, they're only rated for 500 cycles, but there's a
>>> paper by a guy at Maury Microwave that I ran across when trying to get
>>> statistics on the reflection coefficient variation, and he set up a
>>> automated rig to mate/demate SMAs something like 10,000 times.
>>
>> I suspect that the jig he built does a better job of aligning them than
>> what humans do. We put them on not quite square, move them around until
>> the thread mates etc. I wonder if his jig tried to replicate a human or
>> not?
>
> Nope.. back and forth in a straight line. He was measuring repeatability.


So it tells us nothing very much about the life of them in normal use, with a 
human mating and demating them.  - or even the repeatability of the reflection 
coefficient with a human in the equation.

dave