[time-nuts] PTTI 2018

2018-01-28 Thread Kevin Croissant
Is anyone else attending PTTI 2018 this year in Reston, VA? https://www.ion.org/ptti/ Perhaps people would be interested in a meet-up, I am here with my university for a presentation but I am sure I can get away for a bit. -- Kevin Croissant ___

Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 3/3

2012-12-08 Thread David J Taylor
They did respond back and I am limited to 1. Wanted 2 but such is life. :-) Will order most likely Monday. Regards Paul WB8TSL You were lucky, Paul. I have so far received no response to my query. 73, David GM8ARV -- SatSignal Software - Quality software

Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 3/3

2012-12-07 Thread W2GPS
...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 12:02 PM To: Tom Van Baak; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 3/3 Great comments and a good read. OK so what does the drop in replacement cost??? Thanks lots to read here. Later Paul WB8TSL On Thu

Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 3/3

2012-12-07 Thread paul swed
and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 3/3 Great comments and a good read. OK so what does the drop in replacement cost??? Thanks lots to read here. Later Paul WB8TSL On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Tom Van Baak t...@leapsecond.com wrote: Still

Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 3/3

2012-12-07 Thread paul swed
=com_artformsformid=1Itemid=198 . Rick W2GPS -Original Message- From: paul swed [mailto:paulsw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 12:02 PM To: Tom Van Baak; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 3/3 Great comments

Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 3/3

2012-12-06 Thread Tom Van Baak
Still, there are always a number of talks of more general interest to us time nuts. In the next few postings I'll give more details on a couple of topics: And here's the third part of my PTTI report... - Vendor presentations/Symmetricom/Miles Besides 3 days of presentations, PTTI also hosts

Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 3/3

2012-12-06 Thread paul swed
Great comments and a good read. OK so what does the drop in replacement cost??? Thanks lots to read here. Later Paul WB8TSL On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Tom Van Baak t...@leapsecond.com wrote: Still, there are always a number of talks of more general interest to us time nuts. In the

Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2

2012-12-05 Thread Mark Kahrs
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 9:19 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement; Bill Dailey Subject: Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2 In message CAMPhiorJihW9z6-q0+Qfd+GPLjs6e8_ovWrDxQoxV=92hgj...@mail.gmail.com , Bill Dailey writes

Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2

2012-12-05 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 12/05/2012 03:26 PM, Mark Kahrs wrote: I couldn't resist and did a little reading. So, the MIT Flea has MOT cells? That would seem to be the deal breaker to me. The rest is just plumbing. And smoke and mirrors. While participating at the NIST TF seminars, one of the tours was in fact a

Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2

2012-12-04 Thread Bob Camp
Hi I went through a similar process quite a while ago. The dimensions of the actual fountain can be quite small. One could make one the size of a shoe box and still have it perform quite well. Bob On Dec 3, 2012, at 2:07 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk wrote: In message

Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2

2012-12-04 Thread paul swed
OK now that I am setting out to build one. Would the challenge for a amateur be that the components you build with are basically dirty. Some how on the copper pipe it would need to be clean and then brazed I might guess. All of that makes for a dirty element. To the vacuum. I used to make vaccuum

Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2

2012-12-04 Thread Bill Dailey
I used to work on oxygen clean systems... that cleaning is done primarily with liquid freon (R-113 and ultrasound - may be hard to get now). The Vacuum stuff is expensive but off the shelf. The complicated part to me is the lasers and microwave... in addition to the super-stable oscillator you

Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2

2012-12-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message CAMPhiorJihW9z6-q0+Qfd+GPLjs6e8_ovWrDxQoxV=92hgj...@mail.gmail.com , Bill Dailey writes: If you look at the papers on portable rubidium fountains they are significantly bigger than a shoebox (65 cm). Diameter is controlled by dispersion of the launched atoms (=recovery rate)

Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2

2012-12-04 Thread Bob Camp
- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Poul-Henning Kamp Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 9:19 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement; Bill Dailey Subject: Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2 In message CAMPhiorJihW9z6-q0+Qfd

Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2

2012-12-04 Thread Bill Dailey
AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement; Bill Dailey Subject: Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2 In message CAMPhiorJihW9z6-q0+Qfd+GPLjs6e8_ovWrDxQoxV=92hgj...@mail.gmail.com , Bill Dailey writes: If you look at the papers on portable rubidium fountains

Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2

2012-12-04 Thread paul swed
...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Poul-Henning Kamp Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 9:19 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement; Bill Dailey Subject: Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2 In message CAMPhiorJihW9z6-q0+Qfd+GPLjs6e8_ovWrDxQoxV

Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2

2012-12-04 Thread Bob Camp
[mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of paul swed Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 9:49 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2 Basements the key. So for me bigger is better. Heck if its a rack thats ok. It gets interesting

Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2

2012-12-04 Thread Bill Dailey
; Bill Dailey Subject: Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2 In message CAMPhiorJihW9z6-q0+Qfd+GPLjs6e8_ovWrDxQoxV=92hgj...@mail.gmail.com , Bill Dailey writes: If you look at the papers on portable rubidium fountains they are significantly bigger than a shoebox (65 cm). Diameter

Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2

2012-12-04 Thread Bruce Griffiths
...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Poul-Henning Kamp Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 9:19 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement; Bill Dailey Subject: Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2 In message CAMPhiorJihW9z6-q0+Qfd+GPLjs6e8_ovWrDxQoxV

Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2

2012-12-04 Thread Don Latham
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 9:19 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement; Bill Dailey Subject: Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2 In message CAMPhiorJihW9z6-q0+Qfd+GPLjs6e8_ovWrDxQoxV=92hgj...@mail.gmail.com , Bill Dailey writes: If you look at the papers

Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2

2012-12-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 50be4f1d.7020...@xtra.co.nz, Bruce Griffiths writes: The lasers arent that difficult to make or expensive if one adopts a modified Littrow ECDL configuration. Laser diodes without AR coatings have been used successfully in such lasers. Low noise current sources and close

Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2

2012-12-04 Thread EWKehren
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement; Bill Dailey Subject: Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2 In message CAMPhiorJihW9z6-q0+Qfd+GPLjs6e8_ovWrDxQoxV=92hgj...@mail.gmail.com , Bill Dailey writes: If you look at the papers on portable rubidium fountains

Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2

2012-12-04 Thread Bill Dailey
-Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Poul-Henning Kamp Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 9:19 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement; Bill Dailey Subject: Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2

Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2

2012-12-04 Thread Bob Camp
Hi A few kilometers of optical fiber should do the trick. Servo the fiber temperature to keep things locked up. Bob On Dec 4, 2012, at 4:17 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk wrote: In message 50be4f1d.7020...@xtra.co.nz, Bruce Griffiths writes: The lasers arent that

Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2

2012-12-04 Thread Bob Camp
and frequency measurement; Bill Dailey Subject: Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2 In message CAMPhiorJihW9z6-q0+Qfd+GPLjs6e8_ovWrDxQoxV=92hgj...@mail.gmail.com , Bill Dailey writes: If you look at the papers on portable rubidium fountains they are significantly bigger than

Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2

2012-12-04 Thread Bob Camp
-Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Poul-Henning Kamp Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 9:19 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement; Bill Dailey Subject: Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2 In message

Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2

2012-12-04 Thread EWKehren
: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 9:19 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement; Bill Dailey Subject: Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2 In message CAMPhiorJihW9z6-q0+Qfd+GPLjs6e8_ovWrDxQoxV=92hgj...@mail.gmail.com , Bill Dailey writes: If you look

Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2

2012-12-03 Thread Tom Van Baak
Continuing from previous posting... Still, there are always a number of talks of more general interest to us time nuts. In the next few postings I'll give more details on a couple of topics: - Neutrino time-of-flight update Last years' faster-than-light neutrino fiasco is now old news, but

Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012, part 2

2012-12-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message AB5B0278225B4BD483382A39E6834203@pc52, Tom Van Baak writes: - USNO rubidium fountains While many national labs have developed cesium fountains (for accuracy), USNO has been gradually building rubidium fountain clocks (for stability) and 4 of them are now fully operational.

[time-nuts] PTTI 2012

2012-12-01 Thread Tom Van Baak
I just returned from PTTI (Precise Time and Time Interval), the annual conference hosted by USNO, NASA, JPL, etc. Those of you unfamiliar with PTTI can read more (http://pttimeeting.org/). Many of you know this site by the fantastic collection of 40 years of archived (and free) technical papers

Re: [time-nuts] PTTI 2012

2012-12-01 Thread SAIDJACK
Hi Tom, there are two that sound very interesting: the M12/uBlox one and the Time-Nuts one :) Do you have any other info, or could you give us a 1 minute overview of what was shown please? I also heard that there were scheduled to be more CSAC type papers, but they did not get DARPA

[time-nuts] PTTI 2007 call for papers

2007-05-23 Thread Raimond Melkers
The PTTI 2007 website has been updated with the Call for Papers. The link to the CFP is: http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ptti/PTTI2007CallforPapers.pdf Nikki Jardine Naval Research Laboratory Code 8150 4555 Overlook Avenue SW Washington, DC 20375

[time-nuts] PTTI

2005-10-27 Thread TwoSpades
Hi everybody, Sometimes I find references to PTTI proceedings. Where can I find these documents? I had a look at the PTTI website http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ptti.html but I didn't find some of them! Thanks again for helping me. Bye. Michelangelo. ___

Re: [time-nuts] PTTI

2005-10-27 Thread Tom Van Baak
/history/ /tvb - Original Message - From: TwoSpades [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 08:43 Subject: [time-nuts] PTTI Hi everybody, Sometimes I find references to PTTI proceedings. Where can I find these documents? I had a look at the PTTI website http

[time-nuts] PTTI

2005-08-11 Thread Titan Corp
Just started subscribing to this list, It's great! Who will be attending this years PTTI? Glad I found this group. Raimond Melkers AFSPC SMC MCL //L-3 Titan SCTS/AFSATCOM Program Manager support DAYMARK/GPS timing/Ce(a)sium support 719-930-8011 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ