Hi

The question was “Rb ensemble” …. AFIK you would have to go back quite a way to 
find NIST running one….

Bob

On May 30, 2014, at 7:52 PM, Magnus Danielson <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> Bob,
> 
> The long tube Cs standard (NIST 7) is parked in the entrance. Too noisy to 
> contribute much value. They have a bunch of 5071As and hydrogen masers. They 
> live in individually temperature stabilized compartments. One typically is 
> selected as the reference and then you measures differences. With these 
> differences they then run the ensemble program on a pair of redundant PCs 
> every 12 min.
> 
> Cheers,
> Magnus
> 
> On 05/30/2014 09:24 PM, Bob Camp wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> Rubidium ensemble? That would have been quite a while back. They have been 
>> running on long tube Cs standards for quite a while.
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
>> On May 30, 2014, at 2:03 PM, Tim Shoppa <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> What did NIST do with its Rubidium ensemble before they got the cesium 
>>> fountain?
>>> 
>>> Did they break one of the rubidiums off the ensemble, maybe in a
>>> different room with different HVAC, and look at the one vs many?
>>> 
>>> Would that be useful for OCXO's, measuring one OCXO against an ensemble?
>>> 
>>> Tim N3QE
>>> 
>>> On 5/30/14, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I usually don't use drift removal as I want to see the effects of drift!
>>>> 
>>>> The effects of oscillators locking together are very apparent on both the
>>>> phase and AD plots when using a DMTD system. There was no indications of
>>>> such locking!
>>>> 
>>>> My point was that if you are measuring ultrastable Quartz oscillators
>>>> against each other the AD at the higher Tau will not reflect the true
>>>> stability of the oscillators.
>>>> 
>>>> Only a Maser or high performance Rubidium (HP5065A) will reveal the true
>>>> behavior.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> 
>>>> Corby
>>>> 
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