[time-nuts] Gamma-ray and jitter

[Magnus Danielson]

On 11/14/2010 06:08 AM, Richard Karlquist wrote:
>   FWIW, you will notice that there is a high value resistor shunting
>   the crystal in the 10811.  The reason for this is to drain off DC charge
> caused
>   by cosmic rays hitting the crystal, according to the designers.

DC static tweaks the frequency of an SC-cut crystal somewhat. NIST used 
this property to create a small rane linear modulator.

Cheers,
Magnus