On 13/01/11 18:27, Bob Camp wrote:
Hi
I certainly agree with that. The tubes in a "portable" cesium are done so
they fit inside a specific box. In a lot of ways bigger is better if you are
going to do it yourself. It would not at all be a trivial undertaking. It
also would not be cheap.
Cs standards with dead tubes are indeed pretty cheap. I think I'd start with
the electronics from one of them. Being able to do the tube stuff without
having to do the electronics at the same time should make things a bit
easier. You could swap out the electronics for your own once the tube was
doing it's thing.
Hacking existing hardware to achieve a digital steering of C-field
should not be too hard. The first patent I recall uses a RCA CD1802
processor for control. Essentially it adds a DDS, ADC (detector), DAC
(OCXO EFC and C-field control) and processor. It would replace the
normal modulated signal of typical cesium signals (12,6 MHz) and take
the signal prior to classical detectors.
Cheers,
Magnus
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