[time-nuts] Delay through GPS antenna splitter/amplifier -- ananswer, and a question

John Ackermann N8UR jra at febo.com
Mon Mar 12 14:11:36 EDT 2007


Magnus Danielson wrote:
> From: "Tom Van Baak" <tvb at LeapSecond.com>
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Delay through GPS antenna splitter/amplifier -- ananswer, and a question
> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:46:40 -0700
> Message-ID: <002b01c764ce$64606cf0$0300a8c0 at pc52>
> 
> Tom and Rob,
> 
> I often estimate time/distance relationships using simple rule-of-thumb
> calculations, and I often find that it is more than sufficient from getting the
> basic hang of things.
> 
> But both your stories indicate that you should never select a problem to demo
> which has an obvious, simple and low-tech solution to it when you want to demo
> your high-tech toys^H^Hols. It needs to be utterly important, hard to measure
> except with your toys^H^Hols. :)

This is the basic problem with our hobby... I proudly tell people that I 
can measure time to trillionths of a second, but am hard pressed for a 
good answer when they ask "why do you need to?"



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