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The State of the Art in Amateur Timekeeping Tom Van Baak Seattle, WA
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The State of the Art inAmateur Timekeeping
Tom Van Baak
Seattle, WA
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Outline
§ Amateurs & precise timekeeping
§ Collecting atomic clocks
§ Stability measurements
§ Cesium experiment
§ Maser experiment
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Amateurs with atomic clocks
§ Ham radio
§ Timing industry employees
§ Retired military personnel
§ Computer engineers (network sync)
§ Clock and watch collectors
§ TACGPS, time-nuts
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The collection…
§ Austron, Astrodata, Berkeley (BNC),
Bliley, Datum, Efratom, FEI, Fluke,
FTS, GenRad, HP/Agilent, Kinemetrics,
Odetics, Oscilloquartz, Stanford (SRS),
Spectracom, Sulzer, Symmetricom,
Tracor, Trak, TrueTime, Vectron
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Where do these come from?
§ Ham radio conventions
§ Surplus stores (local)
§ Used test equipment dealers (net)
§ Usenet
§ Gifts
§ eBay
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Some measurements
§ Sulzer quartz
§ HP quartz
§ HP cesium
§ FTS cesium
§ Two 5071A’s
§ Two masers
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Some experiments
§ HP 10811 OCXO variations
§ Cesium resonance
§ Maser cavity auto-tuning
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Fun at 9,192,631,770 Hz
§ 9180 MHz
§ +12.6 MHz
§ Synthesizer:
HP 3325A
§ Voltmeter:
HP 3456A
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Maser cavity DAC webcam
§ Missing RS-232
§ Octal LED
§ Webcam (jpg)
§ OCR digit (bmp)
§ TAUplot
§ FTP to website
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Maser DAC calibration
§ Octal DAC
§ from 1000
§ to 7000
§ step 1000
§ every 60 s
§ 2.7e-12 FS
§ 6.8e-16/bit
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Summary
§ Collecting hobby
§ Measurements & experiments
§ Virtual time/frequency museum(donations welcome!)
§ Most accurate [home] clock
§ My website:
www.LeapSecond.com
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§ Oncore VP GPS Receiver
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