[time-nuts] Characterization of Oscillator w/ HP5345a

[Lux, Jim (337C)]

On 1/11/10 6:58 PM, "Brian Kirby" <kilodelta4foxmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does your employer offer medical insurance ?  Please check to see if
> they cover psychiatric care.  Time-Nuts are more addictive than crack,
> plus they all have obsessive compulsive disorders.  Please seek medical
> treatment before its two late.
> 
> Next thing you know, you'll end up with several crystal oscillators, a
> few rubidiums, maybe a cesium, and if your willing to let you family
> obligations go, a Hydrogen Maser.
> 
> To start, you'll want a GPSDO, so you will have a reference of some sort
> to UTC.  Rubidiums are cheap, some at the $100 level on flea-bay, build
> a case, power supply and your ready to go.
> 

All is not lost, if you succumb to the addiction.  It has all kinds of
beneficial effects. My kids greatly envy tvb's: "Dad, how come YOU aren't
doing experimental proofs of general relativity with us?  Other Dads do that
with their kids."