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Jul 02, 2026 Last reply: 2 weeks ago 26 Replies

Really, Cesium for long term stability. The H-maser has better phase noise. I have made the analog circuits to enslave a hydrogen maser to a Cs to get the best of both worlds. They are on the ISS now.

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There is a huge amount of good information on rubiola.org.

Gerhard

But routine.

Or they didn't explain to you why they needed it, in terms that you could follow and pass on to us.

They might be, with somebody who knew anything about them.

You aren't a big enough market to justify the exercise.

Really?

It sounds as if the resentment is already building up. At Cambridge Instruments the thinking was more that we could get them to do some of the really tricky jobs.

I have an old Efratom rubidium that did it all with a little TTL and some discrete parts. Very clever.

Show us how you would do it.

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Not a bit. I appreciate offloading the really hard thinking, and enjoy teaching, and the brainstorming sessions and design reviews are great fun.

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John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

Why? There's no particular reason to imagine that I would do it all that well, and nobody would pay me for the labour involved.

Earning the admiration of somebody who admires Donald Trump would be a risk rather than a motivation.

I'm decades out of date on this stuff now.

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