[time-nuts] GPS locked 60Hz?

Tim Shoppa tshoppa at gmail.com
Sat Jul 27 15:11:56 EDT 2013


http://leapsecond.com/pages/atomic-nixie/ shows a KVARZ CH1-75 Active
Hydrogen Maser (5 MHz) through a HP 3325B synthesizer (60 Hz) through a HP
6827A bipolar power supply (100 VAC) to generate a 60 Hz mains.

At http://leapsecond.com/pages/mains/ he also shows the 60Hz grid
meandering forward and back plus or minus 5 or 10 seconds over a month in
2004.


On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Bob Stewart <bob at evoria.net> wrote:

> My Tymeter just clacked over to 50 minutes after, and I had a sudden
> vision of GPS locking its input to 60 Hz, like in the good old days when
> the power companies cared about frequency.  =)  Has anyone actually gone
> that far in their time-madness?
>
> Bob - AE6RV
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