[time-nuts] Time-nuttery at EFTF-2016

Magnus Danielson magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Thu Apr 7 03:01:30 EDT 2016


Tom,

On 04/07/2016 02:55 AM, Tom Van Baak wrote:
>> One interesting poster from Justervesenet (Norways National Meterology
>> Institute) addressed some odd characteristics of the Keysight 53230A
>> counter and the way it process data. It have shown several problems, and
>> part of the research was done after borrowing a counter from a
>> time-nuts. :) I found a USNO guy looking at it, thinking about it, and I
>> brought Enrico and Francois to is, as they have been active in analyzing
>> behavior of the lambda and omega counters.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Magnus
>
> Magnus,
>
> Thanks for that EFTF update. Will your paper be online somewhere so we can read it?

EFTF papers have a tradition of becoming online, so that will not be a 
problem. Work on a full-length journal version is being done, so you can 
get more flesh on the bones. Don't worry, it will be available. :)

> About odd characteristics in the 53230A, please also see:
>
> "... Frequency Error near the Reference Frequency Harmonics"
> http://cp.literature.agilent.com/litweb/pdf/5990-9189EN.pdf
>
> Does it relate at all to these discussions:
>
> https://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2012-October/070737.html
> https://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2015-February/091026.html
> https://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2015-February/091047.html
> https://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2015-March/091056.html

I remember, but thanks for the pointers. :)

Cheers,
Magnus


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