[time-nuts] HP 5065A fault

2018-08-20 Thread John Ponsonby
to guide me. So I'd welcome any advice on what to expect, what precautions to take and what I shall need to effect a repair. John Ponsonby ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: [time-nuts] WWV Doppler Shift (Tom Holmes)

2018-11-21 Thread John Ponsonby
Tom Holmes wrote: "If the Earth were homogeneous then g would drop by 1/r^2 outside and 1/r inside the surface. " This is incorrect. If the earth were homogeneous then g would indeed drop as 1/r^2 outside but would go as r inside. Thus it drops to 0 at the centre as well as at infinity. John P

[time-nuts] Is it possible to "recharge" hydrogen maser?

2019-07-06 Thread John Ponsonby
An H-maser works by continuously bleeding a beam of monatomic hydrogen into the system. This gas has to be continuously 'pumped' out. The ion pumps used don't have an outlet port. They work by burying the H2 gas in titanium plates. Thus as Ole Ronningen says the pumps have a finite working life

[time-nuts] What do people use for measuring temperature?

2020-09-26 Thread John Ponsonby
it, because of the instability of the sensor, one can't control it. John Ponsonby ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.

Re: [time-nuts] What do people use for meassuring temperature?

2020-09-27 Thread John Ponsonby
rical without any underlying semiconductor theoretical foundation. John Ponsonby Do we know what this ?Long Term Aging Process? is or is it proprietary? On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 5:03 PM Bruce Griffiths mailto:bruce.griffi...@xtra.co.nz>> wrote: > Drift ~1-2mK per year for suitably condition

Re: [time-nuts] eLORAN will be on air GRI 99600

2020-08-07 Thread John Ponsonby
When I designed and built my LORAN-C receiver, for navigation not precise time, it was my understanding that all GRI's (Group Repetition Intervals) were expressed as four digit numbers. I designed my receiver accordingly. The number was the repetition time in units of 10 microsecs. This is the