ge ratio of 2X) at the input
of the amplifier, I would guess that the amplifier output would
appear reasonably close to a sinewave, although the amplifier might
still be in compression and generating significant harmonics. The
amplifier must be terminated in 50 ohms for it to work proper
reasonably S/N. The device maser cavity is
superconducting.
I agree that this is an initial proof of concept demonstrating masing
with quantum dots.
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Tektronix RF Application Engineer
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015, at 01:51 AM, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 22:59:57 +0
product based on
my color burst recovery technique, but the random frequency adjustments
by the networks and the switching between network and local station
color burst reference clocks during local programming insertion caused
us to abandon this project. This was about 7 years before I started at
Tek
equency (for example). The analog interpolation
circuit uses a constant current charging a capacitor with a sampler and
A/D converter. Counting a 100 MHz signal, this provides 12 digits of
resolution per second of measurement interval.
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On Wed, Mar 18, 2015, at 05:49 PM, James via t
#x27;m sure
you will be able to get this to work with the right configuration of
termination character and talk/listen turnaround.
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On Sat, Mar 21, 2015, at 09:24 PM, Luke Mester wrote:
> I recently bought a HP5335A counter and have some questions about
> operating the i
Was the website problem this past week? The main Tek US website was
acting up for a while one day this week, but seems to be fine now. I
have no insights on European access.
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On Sun, Mar 22, 2015, at 07:10 AM, James via time-nuts wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> Thanks for the
results in very high time accuracy with low jitter (a couple of ps
RMS jitter in these older products).
* The voltage measurement range is usually a few hundred millivolts
peak-peak, while the damage level is at around 3 volts.
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On Fri, Apr 24, 2015, at 10:42 PM, Ivan
go) allows much
higher accuracy and removes most of the ambiguity of multiple
reflections. It also allows S-parameters to be extracted and SPICE
models to be verified. This software isn't free - we have many more
software engineers than hardware engineers these days!
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On S
dges on the two
inputs. It was a rather specialized product, and I don't think we sold
many of them. In 1995 we discontinued nearly the entire TM500/TM5000
line. Some of these products were sold by Tegam for a few years.
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On Tue, Jun 16, 2015, at 05:17 PM, Richard (R
h was powered by
a TM500 mainframe. A number of other companies produced modules which
were powered by TM500 mainframes.
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On Wed, Jun 17, 2015, at 09:07 AM, Robert Gilchrist Huenemann wrote:
> Thank you for your comments. I was not aware of the TVC501. I have
> ordered
and electromagnetic radiation. But that's more than you
asked for. :)
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On Mon, Jun 22, 2015, at 06:56 PM, Bob kb8tq wrote:
> Hi
>
> The problem with coils (inductors) is that they are indeed on the “other
> side”
> of the physics / electrical engineering divide
ents. I would have to get assistance from others to read a
floppy disk these days anyway! There is a small possibility that I have
some old printed TVC501 application information which didn't get
discarded during my last office move, and I will look for any such
material during our move.
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Bil
I suggest this magazine article: Additive (residual) phase noise
measurement of amplifiers, frequency dividers, and frequency multipliers
http://www.holzworth.com/Aux_docs/PhaseNoise_Article_MWJ_Jun08.pdf
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On Mon, Jul 13, 2015, at 02:20 AM, tim...@timeok.it wrote:
>
&
o not include narrowband spurs such as the ones you see in your
screen capture.
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Tektronix RF Application Engineer
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015, at 04:15 AM, Wolfgang DL1SKY wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just got a used/refurbished E4437B which I wanted to use as a
&
ntent/meetings/rms/keydocs/2011/0518/03_manual_time_error_correction_elimination_field_trial.doc
So don't trust an AC synchronous motor clock in North America.
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On Sun, Jul 26, 2015, at 07:08 AM, Bob Camp wrote:
> Hi
>
> That correlates quite well with d
slowly flipped minute and
hour cards. A few years later I had a Radio Shack LED wristwatch.
I see that 32,768 Hz crystals can now be purchased for US $0.15 each in
lots of 100.
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On Sun, Jul 26, 2015, at 07:08 PM, Dave Martindale wrote:
> It's not just synchronous-mot
on capacitance (and other AM to PM conversion sources) in
downstream amplifiers can be affected by audio frequency noise, I think
that it's very important that such noise isn't allowed to phase modulate
the desired RF signal.
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On Mon, Jul 27, 2015, at 05:39 PM, Bob
endar/SOFCalendar.aspx
And note that except for certain government tests and operations, GPS
jamming is illegal, and violations are prosecuted:
http://www.gps.gov/spectrum/jamming/
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On Wed, Aug 19, 2015, at 03:11 AM, Hal Murray wrote:
>
> Most/all of my GPS toys stopped wo
sistors R10 || R11. Be
sure to not use a different ground, since there may be significant
current and ground drop through the ground trace or plane. Be sure to
have the covers in place so the airflow and thermal characteristics
are as HP designed.
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On Wed, Aug 19, 20
sy to see if you use 10,000 or more
averages/sec using a RTSA or a bitmap statistical display. Again, I'm
not trying to advertise anything in this forum but just give you a
technical answer to your question.
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On Thu, Aug 20, 2015, at 12:12 AM, Hal Murray wrote:
&
ify customs declarations or mark an item as
> a "gift" in order to avoid customs fees. If a buyer asks you to commit
> customs fraud, report it to us."
If the seller is faking custom forms, how do you know that anything they
say is true?
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On Sun, Sep 27, 2015, at 11:36 AM, ed breya wrote:
> I need to build an ECL divide by 3 circuit to run at about 50 MHz input.
> I know there are lots of examples out there, but I vaguely recall years
> ago I stumbled upon one or more that also provided more of a sy
servo tracks really worked and the
mechanical and electrical engineering fallacies in this crazy scheme.
No, I would not take a penny of his money to try any portion any of that
scheme! His company soon went bankrupt, I believe.
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On Mon, Oct 12, 2015, at 01:28 AM, Bill Hawkins wro
cal skills active.
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On Wed, Nov 11, 2015, at 08:34 PM, Pete Lancashire wrote:
> Tektronix (long before being a division of Danaher) up to at least the
> mid
> 70's would require an EE to
> work in production. I understand some HP divisions did the same. All th
Apple iPod to listen to FM broadcast band
signals while eating dinner at the Denver airport and had great
difficulty in positioning the iPod and headphone cable (which acts as
the antenna) for good audio due to multipath distortion.
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On Thu, Nov 12, 2015, at 06:19 AM, T
ation path between Ft Collins CO and your location is fully
dark), since that is when the signal is strongest and tends to have a
more stable phase.
WWVB clocks can get UTC with an uncertainty of about 100 microseconds,
according to NIST: http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/wwvb.cfm
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sions from
Europe. ;)
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On Sat, Dec 19, 2015, at 05:10 PM, Lizeth Norman wrote:
> That's what I said. 61.44MS/s. This thing is a fire hose.
> Saturate a usb 3.1 without much problem.
> Gotta love computing!
>
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Poul-Henning Ka
digital filtering delay acquired signals, so you have to
correct for the group delay in these operations.
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On Sun, Dec 20, 2015, at 08:40 AM, Jim Lux wrote:
> Here's an interesting problem.
>
> You have a fast sampler that is collecting samples off-the-air (e.g
utomatic adjustment of
amplitude and phase flatness, as well as group delay. These models have
a wideband (25 to 165 MHz depending on option) acquisition system as
well as a narrowband (about 312 kHz) IF system, and these are
automatically aligned.
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On Sun, Dec 20, 2015, at
cades!
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On Tue, Dec 29, 2015, at 08:12 PM, Will wrote:
>
> That sure beats a BC21 that many hams (and Post Office Techs) used long
> ago.
>
> So long ago Google doesn't want to help and memory has faded over half
> a c
27;t have
modern RF test equipment, but rather old non-RF measurement instruments.
That oscilloscope was introduced 27 years ago and many repair parts have
not been available for many years. I own some much older Tektronix
scopes and other equipment, but don't use oscilloscopes for general
purpo
waves.
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On Sun, Feb 14, 2016, at 02:26 PM, Paul Boven wrote:
> Hi PHK, everyone,
>
> On 2016-02-14 0:30:22, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>
>> In message <1E75A9592178425ABD11390EB725D060@pc52>, "Tom Van Baak" writes:
>>
>&g
iminate
them completely. Single point ground systems are usually a good idea.
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On Sun, Feb 28, 2016, at 12:22 PM, Adrian Godwin wrote:
> Could it be microphonic capacitors, or the crystal itself ?
> Have you got a big old heavy power supply with a buzzing transforme
image shows the illumination of the
Earth at various points in the Earth's orbit and rotation (time). For example:
http://www.time.gov/images/xearths/1S/96S.jpg
http://www.time.gov/images/xearths/23N/180N.jpg
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On Sun, Mar 13, 2016, at 01:50 PM, James Flynn wrote:
board single unit price is about $299:
http://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/evaluation-documentation/310187823ADCMP572_3_80_1_2EB_0.pdf
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On Tue, Apr 12, 2016, at 09:51 PM, Rob Sherwood. wrote:
> I have both HP and Tektronix pulse generators. Neither a
less, the reflection will
end up causing a reduced risetime or ringing at the source. Your setup
has a good source match which should keep re-reflection to a minimum, so
there shouldn't be any significant re-reflection problems.
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(Tektronix Application Engineer)
On Sun
rs/Micro-2.html
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On Fri, Jun 3, 2016, at 04:04 PM, cdel...@juno.com wrote:
> Well the checkout of the 106A oscillator section is going well.
>
> I ran it for 6 hours and the outer oven came down OK, will have to
> wait
> until I can do a longer attended run
ht
reaches the "back" mirror long before it reaches the "front" mirror, due
to the rapid motion of the train.
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On Sun, Jul 10, 2016, at 11:01 AM, Chris Albertson wrote:
> Is this a valid TN subject? It's about time but a little off of the
> us
he amplitude of the motion of that
point 100 meters from the axis is unaffected. The amplitude of a
harmonic oscillator is directly affected by friction or other losses,
but the effect on resonant frequency is tiny. So loss effects frequency
in one situation and amplitude in the other. How can Q re
ht line. What's the difference?
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On Sun, Jul 31, 2016, at 09:16 PM, Tom Van Baak wrote:
> Hal:
>> Is there a term other than Q that is used to describe the rate of
>> energy loss
>> for things that aren't oscillators?
>
> Jim:
>> cooling (a
and the
inertia resisting change in velocity is the same if the motion is linear
or circular, isn't it?
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On Sun, Jul 31, 2016, at 10:27 PM, Bill Byrom wrote:
> I still claim that there is no natural frequency associated with the
> rotation of a body. The periodic nature
time
interval averaging works correctly if the input signal is synchronously
related to the clock.
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Tektronix Application Engineer
On Tue, Jul 19, 2016, at 01:52 AM, Mark Sims wrote:
> The Tektronix TM509/5009 (and I think the 5010) counter modules have a
> National Se
is 2.7 × 10−16, which would be a time
relative uncertainty of 270 as (attosecond) over a one second interval.
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On Wed, Aug 24, 2016, at 01:26 PM, Russ Ramirez wrote:
> This is a nice advance - where do I get one? LOL
>
> http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/4/e
, the concept of "instantaneous frequency" is valid and is used
everyday in many practical measurements on phase locked loop frequency
synthesizers, radars, testing Bluetooth FSK transmitters, and for many
other applications.
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On Thu, Sep 1, 2016, at 10:39 PM, ji
The Q of Helmholtz resonators is derived here:
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Acoustics/Flow-induced_Oscillations_of_a_Helmholtz_Resonator
Some Q measurements of bottles are described here:
https://math.dartmouth.edu/archive/m5f10/public_html/proj/ArainGolvach.pdf
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On Sat, Dec
kHz IF
amplifier signal chain, followed by an IC audio amplifier. I would think
that the signal delay inside the receiver from antenna to audio output
would be a couple of hundred microseconds, much less than one cycle of
the demodulated audio “tick”.--
Bill Byrom N5BB
On Fri, Dec 8, 2017, at 07
ching, since there are no fast edges.
(iii) If the counter voltage threshold is set to a value near the upper
or lower waveform levels, it's easier to get spurious counts. Noise or
spurious ingress (broken or poor quality cable shield) can cause
problems.
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On Thu, Dec 14, 201
-navigation
For a fun video about this project suitable for non-time-nuts, see:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/tdm/clock/sammy-the-second.html
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On Tue, Mar 21, 2017, at 11:36 PM, Bill Byrom wrote:
> NASA's Deep Space Atomic Clock test mission is moving toward a l
Mars.
Correcting my earlier post, the new launch date for STP-2 appears to be "no
earlier than" June, 2018. I'm relying on this source for launch estimates:
https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/
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On Fri, Feb 9, 2018, at 7:54 AM, jimlux wrote:
> On 2/8/18 8:
.pdf
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/wireless/us-master-clock-keepers-test-ground-alternative-to-gps--
Bill Byrom N5BB
On Tue, Mar 13, 2018, at 5:17 PM, Stewart Cobb wrote:
> Peter Reilley suggests a backup to GPS using terrestrial
> transmitters. This> idea has been around sinc
ate osculation observations.
Amateur Radio nets and phone, Skype for Business, or WebEx conference
calls usually start pretty close to the scheduled time. In some cases
people start wondering if the organizer is delayed after about 15 to
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jects/gpsdo-loss-of-satellitesfix-troubleshooting/https://github.com/pigrew/trueposctrl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c35RCqOOulY
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On Sun, Mar 18, 2018, at 9:59 AM, John Green wrote:
> There is a small, about 3.5" by 4.5", GPSDO board being offered
> by severa
andards and
just let them slowly drift in a temperature stable environment.
But the worst problem was the introduction of frame resynchronizers.
This meant you were now measuring the local station frequency reference,
which wasn't usually all that good. So we cancelled the color burst
frequency
shift is
10 Hz, not 100 Hz. It appears to me that is an audio spectrogram. I have
no idea if the frequency shift is in the generator or receiver.
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On Thu, Dec 22, 2016, at 10:10 AM, David wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 12:39:27 +, you wrote:
>
>> But I find
y only read RMS voltage
correctly on pure sinewaves. Other meters are true RMS measuring and
will read very close the correct RMS voltage even if the waveform is
distorted.
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On Sun, Jan 1, 2017, at 12:16 PM, CIW308 VE6OH wrote:
> Mark,
>
> CSA have standards for over an
high at your house. :)
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On Wed, Jan 4, 2017, at 06:56 PM, Bill Hawkins wrote:
> Wonder if these cases could be used on social media to create enough
> fear that there would be a market for AC crowbars capable of blowing
> line/pole transformer HV fuses? Ther
y odd things may happen if the power
supply regular isn't working properly.
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mixer or preamplifier. As I suggested
earlier, try lowering the input level by 5 or 10 dB and see if the
harmonics go down linearly.
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On Tue, Jan 17, 2017, at 08:40 PM, Rhys D wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Before I start, let me say I'm rather a newbie at thi
intensity survey in conjunction with the
25 MHz transmitter for safety purposes? You may have a high RF field in
that area, and if the V/m is too great you will have many difficulties.
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On Fri, Jan 20, 2017, at 01:21 PM, Bob Camp wrote:
> Hi
>
> I woul
>40 dB (assuming a very
high quality attenuator). This is the same as saying that the VSWR
(Voltage Standing Wave Ratio) is close to 1. A 40 dB return loss
corresponds to a VSWR of 1.02. If an RF filter doesn't see a low VSWR
load, it may not produce the desired filtering behavior.
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a constant amplitude as
the phase is shifted.
Here is an example for an I/Q modulator IC which works from 5 MHz
to 1.6 GHz:
http://www.linear.com/product/LTC5598
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Tektronix
On Wed, Feb 8, 2017, at 05:25 AM, Mattia Rizzi wrote:
> Hello,
> thank you all for the ans
other commonly available
radio related equipment. In my opinion the BC-221 was a technically
beautiful precision instrument. It was the time-nuts tool of choice for
several decades!
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On Sun, Feb 12, 2017, at 08:31 PM, Bob Camp wrote:
> Hi
>
> If you look at a typ
shift of about 1.1 × 10−16
> per meter of change in height.
So at your laboratory depth of 1.1 km, the fractional frequency change
should be about:
1.2 x 10-13 (1.2 parts in 10^13)
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On Tue, Feb 21, 2017, at 11:13 AM, Rhoderick Beery wrote:
> I'm a physics t
bout 1.1 ×
10−16 per meter of change in height.
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On Tue, Feb 21, 2017, at 11:13 AM, Rhoderick Beery wrote:
> Greetings Time-Nuts!
>
> I'm a physics theorist interested in performing an experiment
> to measure
> the gravitational time dilation beneath th
(see the
histogram) could easily be +/- 25 ps. There is no mention of long-term
drift, since that isn't a typical use of this part. It would be
interesting to put one in a simple oven and see how it drifts over a
few months.
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- Original message -
From: Christop
and would like to see
the histogram.
Are you using phase detector 1 or 2? What are the details for your loop
filter?
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- Original message -
From: David Scott Coburn
To: time-nuts@febo.com
Subject: [time-nuts] PLL performance?
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 21:07:03 -0400
Hi All,
I ha
Space Atomic Clock Based Radio Tracking:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/293648187_Preliminary_Investigation_of_Onboard_Orbit_Determination_using_Deep_Space_Atomic_Clock_Based_Radio_Tracking
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- Original message -
From: Gregory Beat
To: time-nuts@febo.com
Subjec
perfect location the system is balanced at the
potential energy peak, and only random noise can push the system into
a final state A or B over a significant length of time.
Sorry if this is considered obvious or trivial.
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- Original message -
From: jimlux
oltage digitizing systems often add known analog dither
noise before an A/D, then remove that noise digitally from the result.
This can improve the accuracy of systems by reducing the effect of
differential nonlinearity and other system errors.
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Full disclosure: I am a Tektronix A
eforms
which must be acquired in equivalent time mode to build up a waveform
record.
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Tektronix RF Application Engineer
- Original message -
From: Hal Murray
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Cc: hmur...@megapathdsl.net
Subject: Re: [time-nuts]
the (2) non-Flash widget
so that it could be easily installed on another website. If anyone knows
how to do this, please let me know! I'm hoping Andrew can assist me.
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- Original message -
From: Jerry Hancock
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurem
Yes, the GR-874 was used on a number of Tektronix products introduced in
the 1960's and 1970's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GR_connector
http://w140.com/tekwiki/wiki/GR-874_connector
Both the GR-874 and APC-7 connectors are sexless, and any connector can
mate with any other.
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d
Ohm's Law and power dissipation in resistors, but obviously I didn't
have a practical understanding of the current handling capacity of the
wire. The wire acted as a fuse before the primary circuit fuse or mains
circuit breaker had a chance to trip.
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- Original
This has been an area of interest to the US Air Force for many years:
http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/aviation-international-news/2006-10-18/usaf-facility-tests-gps-jamming-vulnerability
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On Mon, Aug 14, 2017, at 12:46 AM, Clint Jay wrote:
> Didn't someone dem
Receivers:
http://tf.boulder.nist.gov/general/pdf/1384.pdf
Absolute Calibration of a Geodetic Time Transfer System:
http://xenon.colorado.edu/paperIrevise2.pdf
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On Wed, Sep 6, 2017, at 04:19 PM, Alan Melia wrote:
> The flare has been and gone!...is this another case of journalists
> mixing up a flare with a CME ?
> Ala
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