On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:18:44 -0600, Scott Lacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I see it comes with manuals; does it also include the physicist? >> (I've heard that, in the early days at least, that each maser >> required one full-time physicist to keep it running ;-) Hi Scott, Just dropping a note to thank you for putting those manuals up. I've learned a LOT by studying particularly the service manual. This may be a dumb question but I'm going to ask anyway. With so many factors affecting the hydrogen's masing (is that the correct term) frequency - temperature, pressure, magnetic field, etc), how can a maser be a primary standard? I understand that it can be an incredibly stable transfer standard but how can it be considered a constant? One more question. I noted in the service manual where it states that the quartz resonator is coated with teflon to prevent "hydrogen interaction" or some such term. Does that mean that the monatomic hydrogen in the resonator would react with the quartz and be consumed or is there more a concern for sputtering of the quartz surface? John --- John De Armond See my website for my current email address http://www.neon-john.com http://www.johndearmond.com <-- best little blog on the net! Cleveland, Occupied TN If stupidity hurt then they'd be putting morphine in the water supply. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
