Bill, Some of the key topics of this hobby are -- what did it cost, absolute time error, relative frequency instability, and phase noise. In these cases the goal of time nuts is always "mine is smaller than yours".
/tvb ----- Original Message ----- From: "William H. Fite" <[email protected]> To: "Nick Sayer" <[email protected]>; "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2016 11:15 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Need Time Help Indeed, Nick. And more than a little (usually) courteous one upmanship couched in terms of being helpful by correcting all previous posters. This gentlemanly "mine is bigger than yours" phenomenon is part of what makes this group fun to read. On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 2:03 PM, Nick Sayer via time-nuts <[email protected] > wrote: > To be fair, this is at least partly because asking a relatively simple > question here routinely turns into a dissertation defense. > > > On Oct 6, 2016, at 3:45 AM, Bob Camp <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > That’s very typical in a lot of forums. The OP tosses up a question and > then pretty much vanishes. > > My observation is that roughly 80% of the “I have a question” threads > work that way. > > I’ve never been able to figure out if it is an expectation that all > answers will arrive in an hour or two > > or if the OP is simply reading along and sees no reason to providing > more information to the group. > > Either way, I’m pretty sure that the focus of the answers is not all > that great a week after the last input. > > > > Bob > _______________________________________________ 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.
