[Today’s run: rest day]<\/p>\n
On another internet auction whim I recently put in a low-ball bid on a piece of equipment.\u00a0 Wouldn’t you know it, I won.\u00a0 Now I have to either go get the thing or pay to have it picked up and shipped to me.<\/p>\n
(whaa\u00a0 whaa\u00a0 here comes the whaaambulance) \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
As you may know, I spent\u00a0 over a year gathering the parts for a GPS disciplined oscillator, a 10 Mhz frequency standard. I got it all running last spring, wrestled with it off and on over the summer, and I just recently have gotten everything working in good shape.\u00a0 Whew!<\/p>\n
I am on the “time-nuts” mailing list which has a lot of people on it who are way over-the-top smart and crazy about time and frequency measurement.\u00a0 Their running joke is that once you get one frequency standard you will soon want at least two more so as to measure the first one (and the third is to prove which of the first two are right).<\/p>\n
This item that showed up in Ohio at a NASA facility is called an FTS-4060.\u00a0 It is also a 10 Mhz frequency standard.\u00a0 But this one is a genuine cesium-transition atomic clock.\u00a0 Cool!<\/p>\n
I wonder what my third will be?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[Today’s run: rest day] On another internet auction whim I recently put in a low-ball bid on a piece of equipment.\u00a0 Wouldn’t you know it, I won.\u00a0 Now I have to either go get the thing or pay to have it picked up and shipped to me. (whaa\u00a0 whaa\u00a0 here comes the whaaambulance) \ud83d\ude42 As […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-other-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3203,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions\/3203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}