If the cables are buried on the order of 1 m deep, in touch with the ground, temperature effects are drastically cut, without controllers, etc. Surface temp changes are very attenuated. Don
Tom Van Baak > Hi Steven, > > You can contact me off-line about this if you want more information. > > Being someone with plenty of cesium clocks I looked into his claims in > the late 90's. His cables and electronics were not at all temperature > compensated. It's a simple mistake we all make at one point or another > in our time-nuts career. > > Once you deal with tempco correctly no one has problems like he saw, > whether your clocks are as old as the one he used in 1991 or modern ones > that are ten to a thousand times more accurate. > > Note he ran his experiment for 178 days. If you run a ground temperature > experiment for a full year (or years) you get complete temperature > cycles; if you happen to pick only half a year, starting early summer as > he did, you get a slow ramp. > > When you combine diurnal changes (which he saw) with half-year ramps > (which he mis-interpreted) you get a solar-sidereal effect that looks > extra-terrestrial. Roland was a little too eager to prove aether exists > and textbooks were wrong. Unfortunately he died shortly before I could > email him about his methods and raw data. That was, what, 15 years ago. > > /tvb > www.LeapSecond.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steven Kluck" <[email protected]> > To: "Discussion precise time and frequency measurement" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 8:25 AM > Subject: [time-nuts] de Witte's Experiment > > > I am new to this group, and my main interest is time keeping/ time > signal reception, but all of this frequency talk is catching my > interest. > > If > I had a couple of extra cesium frequency references, I would want to > try Roland de Witte's experiment. Simple and fascinating! Position one > clock about 1500 meters to the east of the other, set up a long > (temperature controlled) coax cable between them, and compare phase from > the 10MHz outputs as the earth turns. The results were enough to make > de Witte a fairly unpopular gentleman until his death. --Steven Kluck > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > -- The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -George Bernard Shaw Dr. Don Latham AJ7LL Six Mile Systems LLC 17850 Six Mile Road POB 134 Huson, MT, 59846 VOX 406-626-4304 Skype: buffler2 www.lightningforensics.com www.sixmilesystems.com _______________________________________________ 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.
