An atomic clock for $1500

[Mike O'Dell]

the Efratom rubidium units for ebay$150 still look pretty good!

don't they have a discipline input?

On 1/26/11 4:10 PM, Louis Mamakos wrote:
> There was some speculation on time-nuts that it was a Rb-based device, but I didn't dig into it very far.  What's interesting is the ability to discipline it with an external 1-PPS signal and then have great hold-over when your GPS signals disappear for a bit.
>
> louie
>
> On Jan 26, 2011, at 2:03 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
>
>>
>> Interesting; I'm curious as to how it works (and also to see the MAVAR
>> graph to see if it looks similar to anything that we are used to).  If
>> the literature is to believed it's similar in stability to Rb (over
>> some unspecified time interval).
>>
>> -r
>>
>>
>> Andre Kesteloot<andre.kesteloot at verizon.net>  writes:
>>
>>> [[http://electronicdesign.com/article/communications/First-Commercially-Available-Atomic-Clock-Smaller-Lighter-And-More-Efficient-.aspx?cid=ed_newsletter&NL=1&YM_RID=#email#]]
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Tacos mailing list
>>> Tacos at rf.org
>>> https://rf.org/mailman/listinfo/tacos
>> _______________________________________________
>> Tacos mailing list
>> Tacos at rf.org
>> https://rf.org/mailman/listinfo/tacos
>
> _______________________________________________
> Tacos mailing list
> Tacos at rf.org
> https://rf.org/mailman/listinfo/tacos