On 8 Jan 2017 17:34, "Bob Camp" <kb...@n1k.org> wrote: > You are talking about a project that will take many years and likely > more money than the price of a new home. If that is “fun money”, then > fine. For most people that sort of commitment is a bit outside the range > of do it for fun.
It would be interesting to see your breakdown of the costs and man hours for an H2 maser. I suspect that others would find cheaper/faster solutions. > Even as a “fun project”, I question the bang for the buck. If cost and time > are no object, why not do an optical ion standard or a Cesium fountain? > I would suggest that both are more cool than than a maser and likely > have a lot more fun aspects to them. You then would have something > truly unique and not simply a more expensive / poorer performing example > of something you could have bought. You raise an interesting point. I suspect that if a serious attempt was made at a caesium fountain by a *group* of people, they might end up with donated parts from places like NIST, NPL etc. Commercial sponsorship could conceivability be an option to funding such a project, as could wealthy individuals like Richard Branson or James Dyson, both of whom are interested in technically challenging projects. $100 would not go far, but I personally would be willing to donate $100 towards the cost of such a project, just to feel part of it. > Bob Dave _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.