[time-nuts] Cesium lockup

Didier Juges didier at cox.net
Fri Jul 21 21:16:57 EDT 2006


Magnus Danielson wrote:
> Fellow time-nuts,
>
> This evening I was presented with a dilemma, either to check if my repaired Cs
> beam would lockup or go out dancing (and chasing chicks). Being told about the
> dancing a bit late, being inproperly dressed, unshaved and all, I felt the
> time nut in me was having a strong case, so it became a Cesium lockup wake
> instead! ;O)
>   
You clearly made the right choice. This is [time-nuts] after all :-)
> And yes, to the best of my abilities to judge things, after the replacement of
> a tired component, my Cesium beam now locks up and behaves quite sanely. It is
> still tracking in closer and closer but it seems to track along. Before I had
> an oscillating behaviour since it lost lock due to noisy measures which could
> be traced to a particular component. I was unable to find a replacement but a
> fellow time-nut helped me out and this evening I got the additional help to
> solder the replacement in.
>
> I want to monitor the progress over the next few days (with continous logging)
> but it looks very promessing. Now I have a nice little challenge in finding out
> how I best is going to have it hooked up and kept running in my rig.
>
> So, I just wanted to share this happy feeling with some people that might
> apprechiate it.
>
> Now I may start calibrating my Rubidium (finally after all these years).
>
> I have to arrange for a propper GPS antenna solution too. But now I have a good
> feeling to start the exercises from. ;O)
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus
Congratulations, maybe this will motivate me to finish my GPS stabilized 
HP 10811 frequency reference...

Didier KO4BB




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