I took my recently acquired cesium clock to the hamfest in Jackson, MS a couple of weeks ago in the hope that I could cash in big and retire in splendor. But no one bought it.
So, instead I spent some of my hamfest earnings on a GPIB/USB dongle and I've been using TimeLab and looking at the VE2ZAZ GPSDO that got me into all of this in the first place. The numbers I get are very gratifying. The GPSDO seems to work better than I expected. This is really cool. But I have a question. The GPSDO is set up to do a potential correction every hour. It seems to me that a TimeLab run of less than X hours will only be measuring the fine properties of the oscillator and not the whole system. The question is, how many hours of data collection are needed to capture a characterization of the GPSDO as a whole? What do people to with Thunderbolts and other similar systems? Chris Howard w0ep After I get done playing around with this cesium standard I still think I would like to sell it. I would like to get enough out of it to buy an Elecraft K2 with some of the options. I don't really know if that is realistic. If anyone has comments on that plan, would also love to hear them. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
