[rescue] Re: Way OT: Never trust Best Buy.

[Dave McGuire]

On February 3, Scott Newell wrote:
> >  All the good ones are dangerous.  My Atomichron (circa 1951 cesium
> >beam oscillator, 1400lbs) nearly fell on me when I moved into my new
> >place.
> 
> Jeez.  They only made, what, ~50 of those?  NATCO, right?  Where'd you get
> it?  Does it still work?  Does it drive an NTP server?

  They made about 40 of them.  I got it from a Very Special Place. :)
It doesn't run; the cesium tube is cracked. :-(

> I was attempting to add a PPS output to my Earthmate GPS as part of my
> quest for a high stratum NTP server, but it appears that I broke the
> freakin' thing in the process.  Grr.  I've still got plans to put an Rb and
> a few OCXOs tickers together, but I wanted the GPS as an absolute source as
> well.

  I'd be interested in long-term collaboration on this...I've done
lots of related hacking.

    -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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