It looks like the PDF that Demetrios Matsakis attached to his posting
did not make it through to the list. We are debugging that right now.
Meanwhile you can pick up a copy at any of these locations:
"Time and frequency from electrical power lines", Hardis, Fonville, Matsakis
https://tf.nist.gov/general/pdf/2895.pdf
https://www.nist.gov/publications/time-and-frequency-electrical-power-lines
https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=922663
I highly recommend it if you are interested in US 60 Hz mains phase
(time) and frequency accuracy, as well as frequency stability.
/tvb
On 12/27/2021 6:46 PM, Demetrios Matsakis via time-nuts wrote:
This line in Thomas Erb’s email prompts me to point out that the power
companies twice tried to eliminate the requirement to keep the Time accurate to
UTC (2011 and more recently). According to the FERC’s summary in 2020 they
denied the most recent petition because two people wrote letters as private
citizens. I was one and Jonathan Hardis of NIST was the other. See
https://elibrary.ferc.gov/eLibrary/idmws/file_list.asp?accession_num=20200204-3048
I’m not trying to brag - more like I’m worried they try this again in a few
years, and perhaps no one will notice to speak out. These things are announced
by the FERC, and I was on a mailing list with a key-word search, although I let
it lapse. Maybe one of you might want to take it up.
Demetrios
P.S. I am attaching a PTTI paper we wrote, along with Blair Fonville. The
paper itself just described the situation, and did not take a stand. I don’t
think the USNO monitors the situation any more.
On Dec 27, 2021, at 7:01 AM, Thomas D. Erb <[email protected]> wrote:
The power company (still does) keeps line frequency accurate to a time
standard. Henry Warren got this standardized - I believe Tesla proposed it.
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