[time-nuts] de Witte's Experiment

[Don Latham]

If the cables are buried on the order of 1 m deep, in touch with the
ground, temperature effects are drastically cut, without controllers,
etc. Surface temp changes are very attenuated.
Don

Tom Van Baak
> Hi Steven,
>
> You can contact me off-line about this if you want more information.
>
> Being someone with plenty of cesium clocks I looked into his claims in
> the late 90's. His cables and electronics were not at all temperature
> compensated. It's a simple mistake we all make at one point or another
> in our time-nuts career.
>
> Once you deal with tempco correctly no one has problems like he saw,
> whether your clocks are as old as the one he used in 1991 or modern ones
> that are ten to a thousand times more accurate.
>
> Note he ran his experiment for 178 days. If you run a ground temperature
> experiment for a full year (or years) you get complete temperature
> cycles; if you happen to pick only half a year, starting early summer as
> he did, you get a slow ramp.
>
> When you combine diurnal changes (which he saw) with half-year ramps
> (which he mis-interpreted) you get a solar-sidereal effect that looks
> extra-terrestrial. Roland was a little too eager to prove aether exists
> and textbooks were wrong. Unfortunately he died shortly before I could
> email him about his methods and raw data. That was, what, 15 years ago.
>
> /tvb
> www.LeapSecond.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steven Kluck" <skluck_98 at yahoo.com>
> To: "Discussion precise time and frequency measurement"
> <time-nuts at febo.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 8:25 AM
> Subject: [time-nuts] de Witte's Experiment
>
>
> I am new to this group, and my main interest is time keeping/ time
> signal reception, but all of this frequency talk is catching my
> interest.
>
> If
>  I had a couple of extra cesium frequency references, I would want to
> try Roland de Witte's experiment. Simple and fascinating! Position one
>  clock about 1500 meters to the east of the other, set up a long
> (temperature controlled) coax cable between them, and compare phase from
>  the 10MHz outputs as the earth turns. The results were enough to make
> de Witte a fairly unpopular gentleman until his death. --Steven Kluck
>
>
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