[time-nuts] IEEE Spectrum - Dec 2017 - article on chip-scale atomic frequency reference

Bob kb8tq kb8tq at n1k.org
Sun Dec 10 08:45:28 EST 2017


Hi

Just as there are Time Nuts, there are Tide Nuts (I suppose it’s capitalized …). 
There is a a lot of data out there on just what sort of solid tides one might 
see at this or that point. 

Bob

> On Dec 10, 2017, at 7:29 AM, Azelio Boriani <azelio.boriani at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Is that a Trimble Thunderbolt? Is there a way to compute the uncertainties?
> 
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 2:42 AM, Tom Holmes <tholmes at woh.rr.com> wrote:
>> Mark...
>> You're place really moved a foot in 48 hours? Impressive and scary!
>> 
>> From Tom Holmes, N8ZM
>> 
>>> On Dec 9, 2017, at 8:19 PM, Mark Sims <holrum at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Which gets real fun with things like solid earth tides getting involved.   Lady Heather can now calculate and plot solid earth tides.   Over the last 48 hours my place moved up/down 315 mm and gravity changed 186  microgals... and that was a rather stable period.
>>> 
>>> ------------------
>>> 
>>>> A 1 meter change in elevation corresponds to a frequency offset of about 1e-16. So for 1e-18 levels of performance you "only" need to know g, or your elevation to 1 cm accuracy.
>>> <tides.gif>
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