Richard H McCorkle wrote:
Time-Nuts,
New members to the Time-Nuts list may wonder if the Time-Nut disease
has infected them just by joining the list. A clear indication that
someone has been infected with the Time-Nut disease is they own a
reference that provides accurate time to better than 1us and
frequency to better than 1e-9. This is a mild form of the disease,
but as the infection progresses multiple standards appear, each
having greater accuracy than the last...
P.S. This was written for enjoyment and should not be taken
seriously as an indication of a true medical condition.
I guess I'm a mild case. I bought a rubidium standard/clock "movement"
and I'm slowly building my own atomic clock. I have a WWVB wall clock
and a WWVB wristwatch. I first got the time bug discussing the Chicago
parking meter deal on a Chicago-specific blog. I bought the watch to use
as my car's "chronometer" for parking purposes. I was always vulnerable
to the time bug since childhood and New Year's Eve.
I got my Efratom Rb movement and a frequency divider chip on eBay, of
course. If I were to hit the Lottery, I'd love to get one of those
Agilent 5071A Cs movements!
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