[time-nuts] Conditioning Rubidium Oscillators

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue Mar 15 04:09:31 EDT 2016


--------
In message <20160315031836.0F5B3406057 at ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net>, Hal Mu
rray writes:

>Tom Clark and Rick Hambly work on timing for VLBI.  [...]  They use low 
>cost L1 gear.

The crux of this seems to be that getting better time information out
of multiple bands *in real time* is not a solved problem.

If/when you solve it, you would still have the problem of how to
electrically instantiate that time information in the picosecond
domain.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk at FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.


More information about the time-nuts mailing list