[time-nuts] de Witte's Experiment

[Steven Kluck]

I am new to this group, and my main interest is time keeping/ time signal reception, but all of this frequency talk is catching my interest.

If
 I had a couple of extra cesium frequency references, I would want to 
try Roland de Witte's experiment.  Simple and fascinating!  Position one
 clock about 1500 meters to the east of the other, set up a long 
(temperature controlled) coax cable between them, and compare phase from
 the 10MHz outputs as the earth turns.  The results were enough to make 
de Witte a fairly unpopular gentleman until his death.  --Steven Kluck