On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Bob Camp <kb...@n1k.org> wrote: > Hi > > I agree with their premise that to be useful you need transportable clocks. > I’m not quite sure > that something the size (and weight) of a pickup truck is really > transportable. Yes one can > move it around (unlike a small mountain) …. Transporting something like that > from here to > Europe and back *would* make the charges FedEx comes up with on a 40Kg box > look > cheap though :) > > Bob
I suspect that it's really only meant to be driven around to labs in Europe with optical clocks, like LNE-SYRTE and NPL. I think that you would repack it if you were shipping it overseas. My one experience of something remotely like this was delivery of our frequency comb (two full-height 19 inch racks plus the laser on a large breadboard) from Germany to Australia. It was all working the same day it was unpacked. But no UHV system of course. The Chinese one is a bit simpler: it's a single-ion Paul trap, rather than a lattice clock. Probably less control electronics are needed too, so maybe it's a bit more mobile. Cheers Michael _______________________________________________ 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.
