Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-17 Thread SAIDJACK
In a message dated 7/16/2007 22:26:14 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a military OCXO sample (new product) that is supposed to be g-insensitive and even that one has about E-09 frequency shift per 90 degrees tilt. ... and you have not put a GPS diciplining

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-17 Thread Tom Van Baak
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I guess that is why some GPS antenna cables is temperature-stabilized as well as the cement-pidestal for the GPS antenna as it stands on solid rock. The same place have controlled environment for the cesiums and hydrogens,

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-17 Thread Tom Van Baak
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes it can make sense. Place one Cs clock in a chamber where the ambient temperature can be adjusted to various fixed temperatures. Compare the phase of its 5/10MHz and/or PPS outputs with respect to those of another Cs

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-17 Thread Tom Van Baak
In the article OBSERVATIONS ON STABILITY MEASUREMENTS OF COMMERCIAL ATOMIC CLOCKS, Pekka Eskelinen claims to have measured a phase temperature coefficient of 100ns/degree for commercial Cs clocks in 1999. Something is wrong with that claim. There's no way a modern cesium standard exhibits a

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-17 Thread Magnus Danielson
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Tom Van Baak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:21:37 -0700 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I guess that is why

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-17 Thread Magnus Danielson
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Tom Van Baak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:40:49 -0700 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the article

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-17 Thread Hal Murray
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not sure I follow this. Yes, you will see a phase shift but how can you tell how much of said shift is due to a fixed phase shift (as if it were cable phase tempco) vs. how much is due to phase shift due to frequency offset

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-17 Thread Didier Juges
:-) Didier KO4BB -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Van Baak Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 9:47 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability Who was it that said; every clock is a thermometer

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-17 Thread Björn Gabrielsson
To: time-nuts@febo.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability ); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] om In a message dated 7/16/2007 12:10:54 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For example tilting the Cs unit by 90 degrees will typically give an error

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-17 Thread Rob Kimberley
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability ); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Achieved: Acceleration sensitivities better than 2E-12/g http://www.zyfer.com/briefings/telecom/qz%20low-g%20brfg%20olie%204-04.pdf -- Björn On Tue, July 17, 2007 14:40, Rob Kimberley said

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-17 Thread Magnus Danielson
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Dr Bruce Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:30:03 +1200 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Van Baak

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-17 Thread M. Warner Losh
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Van Baak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : ); SAEximRunCond expanded to false : Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : In the article OBSERVATIONS ON STABILITY MEASUREMENTS : OF COMMERCIAL ATOMIC

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-17 Thread Richard \(Rick\) Karlquist
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In case anyone still doesn't know who I am, I need to mention that I designed the RF electronics in the 5071A in an earlier life, circa 1990. Now that we have that out of the way, I will agree with Magnus that the cited paper is

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-17 Thread Magnus Danielson
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Richard \(Rick\) Karlquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:52:22 -0700 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rick, In case anyone still doesn't know who I am, I need to mention

[time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-16 Thread Pablo Alvarez Sanchez
Hi, I am curious about the total stability of Cs clocks. Normally producers give you an initial accuracy after 30 minutes of power on and a table with the Allan deviation for different measurement intervals. After that they give you the environmental and physical specifications. For the

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-16 Thread SAIDJACK
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 7/16/2007 10:05:51 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My questions are: Are the Allan deviation specs also valid for all the environmental range, including shock and vibration, or only for lab

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-16 Thread Dr Bruce Griffiths
Pablo Alvarez Sanchez wrote: ); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I am curious about the total stability of Cs clocks. Normally producers give you an initial accuracy after 30 minutes of power on and a table with the Allan deviation for different

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-16 Thread Tom Van Baak
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] After that they give you the environmental and physical specifications. For the hp5071 you have: ... Are the Allan deviation specs also valid for all the environmental range, including shock and vibration, or only for lab

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-16 Thread Tom Van Baak
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For example tilting the Cs unit by 90 degrees will typically give an error of about 1E-09 or so. Have you tried this with your FTS 4050? Anyone else do this with a 4060 or hp 5061? /tvb

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-16 Thread Dr Bruce Griffiths
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Van Baak wrote: The given specs are conservative (in typical HP style) but I would guess the best ADEV numbers are only for laboratory conditions. Someone from Agilent/Symmetricom might want to comment on this. In the

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-16 Thread Jack Hudler
of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability Tom Van Baak wrote: The given specs are conservative (in typical HP style) but I would guess the best ADEV numbers are only for laboratory conditions. Someone from Agilent/Symmetricom might want to comment

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-16 Thread Chuck Harris
Tom Van Baak wrote: ); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For example tilting the Cs unit by 90 degrees will typically give an error of about 1E-09 or so. Have you tried this with your FTS 4050? Anyone else do this with a 4060 or hp 5061? I'm pretty sure that

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-16 Thread Tom Van Baak
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Who was it that said; every clock is a thermometer? Even a short length of coax is a thermometer if you look close enough. See the 50 fs / °C tempco at test #6: http://www.leapsecond.com/pages/tadd-1/ /tvb

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-16 Thread Magnus Danielson
From: Chuck Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:55:26 -0400 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Van Baak wrote: ); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-16 Thread Magnus Danielson
From: Tom Van Baak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:47:10 -0700 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Who was it that said; every clock is a thermometer? Even a short length of coax

Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability

2007-07-16 Thread Magnus Danielson
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Cs stability Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:13:58 EDT Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi guys, Hi Said, I did tilt my 4050 when I first installed the unit, that number is from my