Re: [time-nuts] A small piece on HP's hydrogen maser in 1968

2014-02-26 Thread Hal Murray

rich...@karlquist.com said:
 Solid dielectric cable and connectors of 3.5 mm size are mode limited to 18
 GHz.  That is why there is so much stuff rated at 18 GHz as opposed to 16 or
 20 GHz.  

Thanks.  That's what I was looking for.

Wiki says that SMA works to 18 GHz and the 3.5 mm is good for 34 GHz.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMA_connector#Variations



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Re: [time-nuts] A small piece on HP's hydrogen maser in 1968

2014-02-26 Thread Jim Lux

On 2/26/14 12:44 AM, Hal Murray wrote:


rich...@karlquist.com said:

Solid dielectric cable and connectors of 3.5 mm size are mode limited to 18
GHz.  That is why there is so much stuff rated at 18 GHz as opposed to 16 or
20 GHz.


Thanks.  That's what I was looking for.

Wiki says that SMA works to 18 GHz and the 3.5 mm is good for 34 GHz.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMA_connector#Variations




And, as pointed out earlier, the market is smaller, so volumes are 
smaller, and driving the price down from being able to change to truly 
mass production is harder.


There's also a manufacturing tolerance issue.  The higher you go, the 
tighter the mechanical tolerances get.  I suspect there is a huge amount 
of tooling out there for SMA connectors and other things of that size 
where the machining tolerances are good enough for SMA and 18GHz, but 
not good enough for higher.


That drives all sorts of things.

THere's also semiconductor parts.  Lots and lots of stuff in the under 
12-13 GHz range that are inexpensive.  A fair amount up to 18-ish, and 
then it sort of falls off.


There, it's driven by market, which in turn is driven by international 
allocations.  DBS satellites at 12-13 GHz is a high volume market, so 
there's lots of things like MMIC low noise amplifiers.  Likewise 
anything around 2.45 or 5.1-5.8 GHz.  You see a big break in RF 
equipment model capability at 3GHz and 6GHz, and I suspect that's driven 
by the desire to test cellphones and wifi and BT (3 GHz) and 
802.11a/802.11n, WiMax, etc at 6GHz.


Parts that are cheap and easy to use lead to interesting products like 
the SignalHound spectrum analyzer, but I don't expect to see a 50GHz 
SignalHound any time soon. ($900 for 4.4 GHz, $2k for 12.4GHz).  You 
could probably *build* a front end converter for a signal hound fairly 
inexpensively, but the parts for, say, 32 GHz would cost as much as the 
Signal Hound backend.

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Re: [time-nuts] A small piece on HP's hydrogen maser in 1968

2014-02-26 Thread Tim Shoppa
Gravity Probe A used Hydrogen Masers to verify gravitational rate change.
1976 and suborbital, so not exactly the same as Red Shift mentioned in
the HP note.

I myself participated in a variation of Pound-Rebka-Snider (Mossbauer
nuclear physics techniques) in the 1980's.


On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Jim Lux jim...@earthlink.net wrote:

 On 2/24/14 8:17 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

 In message CAA-F0u_jBZ5dyB+hacMwFPkz6VhFo7arZ+
 jpsmhrt9uss2n...@mail.gmail.com
 , Pete Lancashire writes:

  http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/
 publications/measure/pdf/1968_09.pdf

 pages 8  9


 As far as I know, those satellites never made it to orbit ?


 Wasn't that Gravity Probe B.. which finally launched in 2004, and had
 equivocal results.




 Also:  You can just see the writer twist his brain in order to get
 to that final punch-line :-)


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Re: [time-nuts] A small piece on HP's hydrogen maser in 1968

2014-02-26 Thread Bob Camp
Hi

One of the more common explanations for the 18 GHz “upper limit” is that the 
broad water vapor absorption peak at about 23 GHz made systems less practical 
as you went up from 18. I suspect the same water issues make certain types of 
parts more difficult to fabricate.

Bob

On Feb 26, 2014, at 9:01 AM, Jim Lux jim...@earthlink.net wrote:

 On 2/26/14 12:44 AM, Hal Murray wrote:
 
 rich...@karlquist.com said:
 Solid dielectric cable and connectors of 3.5 mm size are mode limited to 18
 GHz.  That is why there is so much stuff rated at 18 GHz as opposed to 16 or
 20 GHz.
 
 Thanks.  That's what I was looking for.
 
 Wiki says that SMA works to 18 GHz and the 3.5 mm is good for 34 GHz.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMA_connector#Variations
 
 
 
 And, as pointed out earlier, the market is smaller, so volumes are smaller, 
 and driving the price down from being able to change to truly mass production 
 is harder.
 
 There's also a manufacturing tolerance issue.  The higher you go, the tighter 
 the mechanical tolerances get.  I suspect there is a huge amount of tooling 
 out there for SMA connectors and other things of that size where the 
 machining tolerances are good enough for SMA and 18GHz, but not good 
 enough for higher.
 
 That drives all sorts of things.
 
 THere's also semiconductor parts.  Lots and lots of stuff in the under 12-13 
 GHz range that are inexpensive.  A fair amount up to 18-ish, and then it sort 
 of falls off.
 
 There, it's driven by market, which in turn is driven by international 
 allocations.  DBS satellites at 12-13 GHz is a high volume market, so there's 
 lots of things like MMIC low noise amplifiers.  Likewise anything around 2.45 
 or 5.1-5.8 GHz.  You see a big break in RF equipment model capability at 3GHz 
 and 6GHz, and I suspect that's driven by the desire to test cellphones and 
 wifi and BT (3 GHz) and 802.11a/802.11n, WiMax, etc at 6GHz.
 
 Parts that are cheap and easy to use lead to interesting products like the 
 SignalHound spectrum analyzer, but I don't expect to see a 50GHz SignalHound 
 any time soon. ($900 for 4.4 GHz, $2k for 12.4GHz).  You could probably 
 *build* a front end converter for a signal hound fairly inexpensively, but 
 the parts for, say, 32 GHz would cost as much as the Signal Hound backend.
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Re: [time-nuts] A small piece on HP's hydrogen maser in 1968

2014-02-26 Thread David McGaw

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Re: [time-nuts] A small piece on HP's hydrogen maser in 1968

2014-02-25 Thread Mark Kahrs
So what's all this about a Thallium Beam Tube???

(Isn't Thallium incredibly toxic?)

n.b. One of the pictures references a Th beam tube...



On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 2:46 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dkwrote:


  [Jim Lux]
  Wasn't that Gravity Probe B.. which finally launched in 2004, and had
  equivocal results.

 No, GPB was the gyro-experiment, it tested another part of GR than
 red shift was supposed to.

  [Tony Greene]
  In the back of my head, I beleive that project red shift did fly,
  but they dumped the hydrogen masers to use brand new lighter weight
  and much smaller rubidiums.

 I've found no trace of it.

 Are you sure you are not confusing it with the pathfinders for NavStar ?

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Re: [time-nuts] A small piece on HP's hydrogen maser in 1968

2014-02-25 Thread Tom Van Baak
 So what's all this about a Thallium Beam Tube???

For info about the pro/con of Thallium beam frequency standards, see:

http://tf.boulder.nist.gov/general/pdf/9.pdf
http://tf.boulder.nist.gov/general/pdf/211.pdf
http://leapsecond.com/history/1965-Metrologia-v1-n3-Cesium.pdf

Imagine 21310.833946 MHz instead of 9192.631770 MHz...

/tvb

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Re: [time-nuts] A small piece on HP's hydrogen maser in 1968

2014-02-25 Thread Mark Kahrs
Thanks, also consider the HP patent:

http://www.google.com/patents/US3407295




On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Tom Van Baak t...@leapsecond.com wrote:

  So what's all this about a Thallium Beam Tube???

 For info about the pro/con of Thallium beam frequency standards, see:

 http://tf.boulder.nist.gov/general/pdf/9.pdf
 http://tf.boulder.nist.gov/general/pdf/211.pdf
 http://leapsecond.com/history/1965-Metrologia-v1-n3-Cesium.pdf

 Imagine 21310.833946 MHz instead of 9192.631770 MHz...

 /tvb

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Re: [time-nuts] A small piece on HP's hydrogen maser in 1968

2014-02-25 Thread Jim Lux

On 2/25/14 1:40 PM, Tom Van Baak wrote:

So what's all this about a Thallium Beam Tube???


For info about the pro/con of Thallium beam frequency standards, see:

http://tf.boulder.nist.gov/general/pdf/9.pdf
http://tf.boulder.nist.gov/general/pdf/211.pdf
http://leapsecond.com/history/1965-Metrologia-v1-n3-Cesium.pdf

Imagine 21310.833946 MHz instead of 9192.631770 MHz...



Excellent, connectors that cost $50 each instead of $5.

Test equipment that costs 5x as much.

I work a lot with 32/34 GHz (deep space Ka-band) at work, and I hate 
having to explain to people who haven't had to buy equipment since back 
when they worked with X band (7.15/8.45 GHz)  that there's a BIG jump in 
cost when you cross that 18GHz boundary line.

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Re: [time-nuts] A small piece on HP's hydrogen maser in 1968

2014-02-25 Thread Hal Murray

jim...@earthlink.net said:
 there's a BIG jump in  cost when you cross that 18GHz boundary line. 

What's magic about 18 GHz?  Why not 16 or 20?


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Re: [time-nuts] A small piece on HP's hydrogen maser in 1968

2014-02-25 Thread Bob Bownes
Lot's of connectors change specification @ 18Ghz or are not rated bast
18Ghz.




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 jim...@earthlink.net said:
  there's a BIG jump in  cost when you cross that 18GHz boundary line.

 What's magic about 18 GHz?  Why not 16 or 20?


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Re: [time-nuts] A small piece on HP's hydrogen maser in 1968

2014-02-25 Thread Richard (Rick) Karlquist

Solid dielectric cable and connectors of 3.5 mm size
are mode limited to 18 GHz.  That is why there is
so much stuff rated at 18 GHz as opposed to 16 or
20 GHz.  The next jump up is 26.5 GHz where 3.5
mm size works in air dielectric.  It costs more
to make these components and the volume is lower,
hence the higher price.  Also, the low price
vendors may just stop at 18 GHz.

Rick

On 2/25/2014 9:03 PM, Bob Bownes wrote:

Lot's of connectors change specification @ 18Ghz or are not rated bast
18Ghz.




On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 11:55 PM, Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.netwrote:



jim...@earthlink.net said:

there's a BIG jump in  cost when you cross that 18GHz boundary line.


What's magic about 18 GHz?  Why not 16 or 20?


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Re: [time-nuts] A small piece on HP's hydrogen maser in 1968

2014-02-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message caa-f0u_jbz5dyb+hacmwfpkz6vhfo7arz+jpsmhrt9uss2n...@mail.gmail.com
, Pete Lancashire writes:

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/publications/measure/pdf/1968_09.pdf

pages 8  9

As far as I know, those satellites never made it to orbit ?

Also:  You can just see the writer twist his brain in order to get
to that final punch-line :-)

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Re: [time-nuts] A small piece on HP's hydrogen maser in 1968

2014-02-24 Thread Richard (Rick) Karlquist

I couldn't get the link to work (it just hangs).

However, I vaguely remember when we were starting
work on the 5071A that the reason why we used
the model number 5071A instead of 5070A was that
the latter number had been reserved for a hydrogen
maser that was never sold.  The person in charge
of checking out model numbers used to complain about
wasting numbers and was probably not pleased
about this.

Rick Karlquist N6RK


On 2/24/2014 8:00 AM, Pete Lancasout hire wrote:

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/publications/measure/pdf/1968_09.pdf

pages 8  9

-pete


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Re: [time-nuts] A small piece on HP's hydrogen maser in 1968

2014-02-24 Thread Pete Lancashire
Does this hang ?

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/publications/measure/




On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist 
rich...@karlquist.com wrote:

 I couldn't get the link to work (it just hangs).

 However, I vaguely remember when we were starting
 work on the 5071A that the reason why we used
 the model number 5071A instead of 5070A was that
 the latter number had been reserved for a hydrogen
 maser that was never sold.  The person in charge
 of checking out model numbers used to complain about
 wasting numbers and was probably not pleased
 about this.

 Rick Karlquist N6RK



 On 2/24/2014 8:00 AM, Pete Lancasout hire wrote:

 http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/
 publications/measure/pdf/1968_09.pdf

 pages 8  9

 -pete

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Re: [time-nuts] A small piece on HP's hydrogen maser in 1968

2014-02-24 Thread Tom Knox
HP was always a class act, proven by the classic Woody wagons used to 
transport gear in the photos.
 

Thomas Knox



 To: time-nuts@febo.com; p...@petelancashire.com
 From: p...@phk.freebsd.dk
 Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 16:17:23 +
 Subject: Re: [time-nuts] A small piece on HP's hydrogen maser in 1968
 
 In message 
 caa-f0u_jbz5dyb+hacmwfpkz6vhfo7arz+jpsmhrt9uss2n...@mail.gmail.com
 , Pete Lancashire writes:
 
 http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/publications/measure/pdf/1968_09.pdf
 
 pages 8  9
 
 As far as I know, those satellites never made it to orbit ?
 
 Also:  You can just see the writer twist his brain in order to get
 to that final punch-line :-)
 
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Re: [time-nuts] A small piece on HP's hydrogen maser in 1968

2014-02-24 Thread Richard (Rick) Karlquist



On 2/24/2014 8:54 AM, Pete Lancashire wrote:

Does this hang ?

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/publications/measure/



That works, but when i click on the actual link to the
actual, my browser still hangs.

Rick
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Re: [time-nuts] A small piece on HP's hydrogen maser in 1968

2014-02-24 Thread Richard (Rick) Karlquist

Still doesn't work for me.

On 2/24/2014 8:57 AM, Had wrote:

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/publications/measure/pdf/1968_09
.pdf

Rick, I got the above to work with no problem. The original link was busted.

Had
K7MLR


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Re: [time-nuts] A small piece on HP's hydrogen maser in 1968

2014-02-24 Thread paul swed
Worked fine for me earlier. May want to try to dump your cache and cookies.
That seems to help when things get silly.

All of that said and back to the numbers. That would have been way back in
1968 and there would have been artificial gods that controlled the numbers.
These odd folks still exist or are the sons and daughters of the number
gods. But today they use excel and color thing red yellow and green and
haven't figured out that you can expand the cell to hold more numbers.
Regards
Paul.


On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist 
rich...@karlquist.com wrote:

 Still doesn't work for me.


 On 2/24/2014 8:57 AM, Had wrote:

 http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/
 publications/measure/pdf/1968_09
 .pdf

 Rick, I got the above to work with no problem. The original link was
 busted.

 Had
 K7MLR


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Re: [time-nuts] A small piece on HP's hydrogen maser in 1968

2014-02-24 Thread Robert LaJeunesse
When there are extraneous characters and a line feed added by some word 
wrapping I use this method: 

1) Forward the email 
2) delete the extra characters, getting the proper URL back
3) Copy the URL to the clipboard
4) Open browser and paste URL in

After that, trash the forward email.

The link below worked fine on a Chrome browser after I did the above.


Bob LaJeunesse




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To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com 
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] A small piece on HP's hydrogen maser in 1968
 

Still doesn't work for me.

On 2/24/2014 8:57 AM, Had wrote:
 http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/publications/measure/pdf/1968_09
 .pdf

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Re: [time-nuts] A small piece on HP's hydrogen maser in 1968

2014-02-24 Thread dlewis

The.pdf  got caught up in a linefeed/carriagereturn
















-Original Message- 
From: Richard (Rick) Karlquist

Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 11:34 AM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] A small piece on HP's hydrogen maser in 1968

Still doesn't work for me.

On 2/24/2014 8:57 AM, Had wrote:

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/publications/measure/pdf/1968_09
.pdf

Rick, I got the above to work with no problem. The original link was 
busted.


Had
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Re: [time-nuts] A small piece on HP's hydrogen maser in 1968

2014-02-24 Thread Richard (Rick) Karlquist



On 2/24/2014 1:59 PM, dlewis wrote:

The.pdf  got caught up in a linefeed/carriagereturn



Wouldn't that problem result in a file not found error
rather than just hanging?

I eventually got the link to work from Internet Explorer,
which took 5 minutes to download it.  It never worked
from Firefox.

Rick
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Re: [time-nuts] A small piece on HP's hydrogen maser in 1968

2014-02-24 Thread Graeme Zimmer




http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/publications/measure/pdf/1968_09.pdf


This broken link business is very common in some browsers (in Windows).

It's because there's an underline in the original URL. When the browser 
sees a link it underlines it in blue, which converts the underline into 
a Rich Text or HTML graphics character.


The simple cure is to cut and paste the URL into a text file with 
notepad. This gets rid of the fancy format characters.


An even better way is to switch off HTML and RTF if you can.
Email was meant to be text.

. Zim
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Re: [time-nuts] A small piece on HP's hydrogen maser in 1968

2014-02-24 Thread Jim Lux

On 2/24/14 8:17 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

In message caa-f0u_jbz5dyb+hacmwfpkz6vhfo7arz+jpsmhrt9uss2n...@mail.gmail.com
, Pete Lancashire writes:


http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/publications/measure/pdf/1968_09.pdf

pages 8  9


As far as I know, those satellites never made it to orbit ?


Wasn't that Gravity Probe B.. which finally launched in 2004, and had 
equivocal results.





Also:  You can just see the writer twist his brain in order to get
to that final punch-line :-)



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Re: [time-nuts] A small piece on HP's hydrogen maser in 1968

2014-02-24 Thread Tony Greene
In the back of my head, I beleive that project red shift did fly, but they 
dumped the hydrogen masers to use brand new lighter weight and much smaller 
rubidiums.


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Re: [time-nuts] A small piece on HP's hydrogen maser in 1968 - download

2014-02-24 Thread Bill Hawkins
That was my experience with XP and IE 8.

Downloading began at once and the byte counter rolled on up to the
target in a minute or so, but I couldn't read the document. My network
indicator stayed lit, and Properties showed message flow, so I did
something else and came back to find it done.

Has happened once or twice before.

Great articles in the result, though.

Bill Hawkins

-Original Message-
From: Richard (Rick) Karlquist
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 5:57 PM

I eventually got the link to work from Internet Explorer,
which took 5 minutes to download it.  It never worked
from Firefox.


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Re: [time-nuts] A small piece on HP's hydrogen maser in 1968 - download

2014-02-24 Thread Richard Karlquist

Great articles in the result, though.



I didn't know the whole history of this, even being
in frequency standards at HP for years.  I see
there is a picture of Lou Mueller.  He was
extremely smart guy to work with.  I learned
an immense amount of physics from him.

Rick Karlquist N6RK
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Re: [time-nuts] A small piece on HP's hydrogen maser in 1968

2014-02-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp

 [Jim Lux]
 Wasn't that Gravity Probe B.. which finally launched in 2004, and had 
 equivocal results.

No, GPB was the gyro-experiment, it tested another part of GR than
red shift was supposed to.

 [Tony Greene]
 In the back of my head, I beleive that project red shift did fly,
 but they dumped the hydrogen masers to use brand new lighter weight
 and much smaller rubidiums.

I've found no trace of it.

Are you sure you are not confusing it with the pathfinders for NavStar ?

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