[time-nuts] US Army Frequency Standard

Don Latham djl at montana.com
Wed Jan 25 06:30:35 UTC 2012


Oh Lord, I gotta have one! It's obviously a mil-spec version of:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z86V_ICUCD4
Don
J. Forster
> Self generating, therefore selenium (or possibly silicon). There is no
> bias so it's not a photoconductor. I'm sure it's called out in the -24P
> manual.
>
> -John
>
> ===============
>
>> Thank you everyone for your comments, and if I've got it right Brooke,
>> if
>> you paste this into your browser:
>>
>> http://www.flickr.com//photos/75ohm/sets/72157629019710615/show/
>>
>> you should get a quick tour and a movie!
>>
>> This is indeed a tuning fork driving a synchronous motor that has a
>> perforated disc on its shaft. The whole unit operates as it should and
>> the
>> quality of manufacture is superb, so I'm reluctant to pull it apart
>> but I
>> am curious as to the type of photocell it uses. It seems very small
>> and
>> the dates on many of the components suggest manufacture in the mid to
>> late
>> 1950s so what was around to do the job at that time? There is no
>> cathode
>> bias on the "voltage amplifier" that it feeds which suggests it s
>> Photovoltaic rather than Photoconductive.
>>
>> Thanks again for your replies,
>>
>> John H.
>>
>>
>> On 24 Jan 2012, at 22:34, Brooke Clarke wrote:
>>
>>> Hi John:
>>>
>>> Is there a photo of the freq std on line?
>>>
>>> Have Fun,
>>>
>>> Brooke Clarke
>>> http://www.PRC68.com
>>> http://www.end2partygovernment.com/Brooke4Congress.html
>>>
>>>
>>> John Howell wrote:
>>>> Thanks Bob,
>>>>
>>>> If it helps the switched frequencies are: 0, 10, 20, 40, 60, 80,
>>>> 100,
>>>> 120, 140, 160, 180, 190Hz.
>>>>
>>>> John.
>>>>
>>>> On 24 Jan 2012, at 22:09, Bob Camp wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi
>>>>>
>>>>> Sounds about right for calibrating / verifying vibrating reed
>>>>> frequency
>>>>> readouts.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bob
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com
>>>>> [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com]
>>>>> On
>>>>> Behalf Of John Howell
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 5:00 PM
>>>>> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
>>>>> Subject: [time-nuts] US Army Frequency Standard
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> I recently obtained a curious Low Frequency Standard dating from
>>>>> the
>>>>> late
>>>>> 1950s. Its output can be switched to a number of frequencies from
>>>>> 10
>>>>> to
>>>>> 190Hz, derived from a tuning fork. It is marked "Signal Corps" and
>>>>> "US
>>>>> Army"
>>>>> with a type number TS-65D/FMQ-1.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone have any information about this unit, in particular
>>>>> what
>>>>> it was
>>>>> used for and why the strange negative going pulse output and
>>>>> specific
>>>>> frequencies.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>> John H.
>>>>>
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