New member says Hi.

[Corby Dawson]

Hi, I mainly work on Atomic frequency standards, Rubidium and Cesium standards, and Hydrogen Masers. My Hydrogen maser work requires High Vacuum equipment and expertise. My current Maser project is chronicled at http://www.leapsecond.com/corby/maser/
Cheers!

Corby Dawson

[Rich Feldman]

Welcome, Corby!

Thanks for sharing your maser stuff. I, for one, also like precision timekeeping.

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Can you tell us about developments in the political effort by telecom companies to abolish leap seconds?
I know that to get rid of that annoying special case in system software,
they want civil time to be disengaged from Earth's irregular (and slow, with respect to the SI second) rotation.
Skipping leap seconds may seem trivial, but that's a short-term view. Skip enough & our clocks will slip out of touch with sunrises and sunsets.

Why not simply adopt a leap-second-free timescale, such as TAI or GPS time, for the networks? Let civil clocks continue to track the mean motion of the Sun. Teach network personnel that network time today is x seconds ahead of civil time, and some day it will be x+1 seconds ahead. Not much different from learning that New York time is an hour ahead of Chicago time.
http://www.timeanddate.com/time/interna ... -time.html
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[Corby Dawson]

Rich,

Looks like they delayed the decision to keep or eliminate leap Seconds until 2023!

For more time and frequency stuff try the leaspsecond.com site that Tom VanBaak runs and also the timenuts list.

The Maser uses hi vacuum as well as low rate Hydrogen flow control and Dissociation into Atomic Hydrogen.

Similar in some ways to the Fusor vacuum requirements.

Cheers,

Corby

[Paul_Schatzkin]

Somebody with the userID "yazzieabbie" posted a bogus reply to this intro. That user has been deleted.

Welcome, Corby, I hope you find the resources here useful.

--PS