Perhaps the aliens are replying to our signals, mostly saying "SHUT UP!!!"
-----Original Message----- From: time-nuts [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Poul-Henning Kamp Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 2:18 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement; Bob Camp Subject: Re: [time-nuts] OXCO Spurious Output at Line Frequencies -------- In message <[email protected]>, Bob Camp writes: >Simply running test gear on batteries did not do the job. Ultimately we >wound up in the middle of an Illinois corn field with a bunch of gear >modified to run purely on batteries. The spur did go down, but it never >fully went away. Illinois is not going to be particular quiet place in that respect. There are a lot of very big antennae all over the civilized world, in the form of power transmission lines, and they radiate when their phase-loading is not perfectly balanced. As antennas they're horribly inefficient, the wavelengths are five and six thousand kilometers, but they do have the advantage of the the biggest transmitters in the world, and they are all phase synchronized in rather large geographies. Dome C on Antartica is probably your best bet these days, provided you get far enough away from the gensets. Poul-Henning PS: I've heard from several sources a saga about when South Africa inaugurated the worlds longest high-voltage line, from hydropower at the north of the country to consumers a the south, and very little power came out at the far end. The punch linie being that orbiting space-craft suffered a lot of 50Hz field strength while they debugged that issue. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ 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.
