Re: [time-nuts] Aging rate of crystals

2008-02-18 Thread Tom Van Baak
At the beginning of the E1938A project, I did some humidity tests on the 10811. It was fairly sensitive to humidity. I think I remember being able to get parts in 10^8 shift. ... At the beginning of the E1938A project, I did a bunch of characterization of 10811 oscillators. At the Santa

[time-nuts] spectracom line taps

2008-02-18 Thread James R. Gorr
I have a Spectracom 8140 frequency distribution amp. I see on ebay there are line taps for this device. Do I need the line taps? Or can I just use the 8140 as is? What are the line taps supposed to do? Jamie

Re: [time-nuts] FE-5680A Rubidium Pinout again

2008-02-18 Thread Jan Fredriksson
Hi, The 1PPS output signal on pin 3 is very short, about one microsecond long. On my unit around 800nS only. -- Message: 3 Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:37:42 +0800 From: bbobb mokai [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [time-nuts] FE-5680A Rubidium Pinout again To:

[time-nuts] Hermetic Quartz oscillator

2008-02-18 Thread corby d dawson
Hi, Saw the posts on humidity and hermetic oscillators. I have an HP 10811-60159 hermetic oscillator on ebay 320219546412 if anyone is interested. Also a lot with a bunch of Dud oscillators. Corby Dawson ___ time-nuts mailing list --

Re: [time-nuts] spectracom line taps

2008-02-18 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
jshank said the following on 02/18/2008 03:05 PM: Jamie, If you have the Spectracom 8140 you need to use the line taps. With out using the line taps you sinewave will not be symmetrically along 0 voltage, that is the sine wave will all be positive voltage. I'm not certain about that;

Re: [time-nuts] spectracom line taps

2008-02-18 Thread jshank
Jamie, If you have the Spectracom 8140 you need to use the line taps. With out using the line taps you sinewave will not be symmetrically along 0 voltage, that is the sine wave will all be positive voltage. The line taps were available in 10 MHz, 5 MHz, 1 MHz and 0.1MHz.; what that means,

Re: [time-nuts] Aging rate of crystals

2008-02-18 Thread Richard (Rick) Karlquist
The long term aging rate is due entirely to the crystal, for all practical purposes, for any well designed oscillator circuit (or even a mediocre design). The aging of the crystal is basically not predictable. It's like the famous saying by J P Morgan when asked what the stock market will do: It

[time-nuts] HP 8660-K11 10MHz comparator and Tracor 900 VLF receiver/comparator

2008-02-18 Thread GandalfG8
Hi All I'm looking for any information, hopefully a manual, for what HP labelled as the 8660-K11 10MHz Ref.Gen which actually looks to be a phase comparator that compares an external 10 MHz signal with an internal HP10811 reference. There are other 8660-K** units, certainly at least the

Re: [time-nuts] spectracom line taps

2008-02-18 Thread Bill Janssen
John Ackermann N8UR wrote: jshank said the following on 02/18/2008 03:05 PM: Jamie, If you have the Spectracom 8140 you need to use the line taps. With out using the line taps you sinewave will not be symmetrically along 0 voltage, that is the sine wave will all be positive voltage.

[time-nuts] Atomic clock on ISS

2008-02-18 Thread Jeff Mock
Today's astronomy picture of the day says that future experiments in the new ISS Columbus laboratory include an atomic clock to measure miniscule timing effects: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080219.html Does anyone know somthing about the sort of clock they're going to put in the