There is a good writeup of the Dicke switch in Horowitz & Hill "The Art of Electronics", since Horiwitz is a radioastronomer of note. I've just bought my daughter a copy for Xmas, poor girl, she wants to be an engineer...
Tom Harris <[email protected]> On 11 December 2013 13:02, Don Latham <[email protected]> wrote: > > Brooke Clarke > > > PS When I was working in microwave electronics we talked about the Dicke > > radiometer, but I haven't found any definitive > > web page about that. > > Gotta look at Radio Astronomy pages and history. Actually, Dicke was > using that radiometer to look for the microwave cosmic background, but > the bell Labs guys had the big antenna. size matters :-) > > > > > -- > "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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
