[time-nuts] HP 3586B Selective Level Meter

2012-07-18 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
Got one of these massive (by today's standards) beasts the other day. It has the option 003. Quite the light show when it powers up. I have its external reference daisy chained with a radio and two other instruments sucking 10 MHz from my Thunderbolt. I have not decided what to do with the AT&T

Re: [time-nuts] Timing Health Monitoring

2012-07-18 Thread Richard H McCorkle
Chris, If you have multiple standards to monitor (or may have in the future) you might consider building a small version of the NIST FMAS board described in http://tf.nist.gov/general/pdf/1950.pdf to keep track of them. Richard > What advice does anyone have on building/finding cheap [visual?] c

[time-nuts] ANN: "Requirements for UTC and Civil Timekeeping on Earth"

2012-07-18 Thread David J Taylor
I expect this will be of some interest to time nuts Announcement of civil timekeeping meeting - from comp.risks http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/26.92.html#subj17 "Requirements for UTC and Civil Timekeeping on Earth" A Colloquium Addressing a Continuous Time Standard to be held at the Univ