[time-nuts] Are the days of buying a crystal numbered?

2010-02-22 Thread Gerald Molenkamp
Hi All, Found this interesting device last week while looking for a basic PLL to replace a crystal for an IF offset. Has anyone experimented with the si570/si571 yet? www.silabs.com/Support%20Documents/TechnicalDocs/ http://www.silabs.com/Support%20Documents/TechnicalDocs/Si570.pdf Si570.pdf

Re: [time-nuts] Are the days of buying a crystal numbered?

2010-02-22 Thread Raj
I built a kit and found that it wanders 50 Hz at 10MHz. http://www.cliftonlaboratories.com/si570_kit_from_k5bcq.htm Found this interesting device last week while looking for a basic PLL to replace a crystal for an IF offset. Has anyone experimented with the si570/si571 yet?

Re: [time-nuts] Are the days of buying a crystal numbered?

2010-02-22 Thread Dave Baxter
: 6 Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:59:44 +1100 From: Gerald Molenkamp gera...@commtelns.com Subject: [time-nuts] Are the days of buying a crystal numbered? To: time-nuts@febo.com Message-ID: 50d403a38069bf4196f41887738c03ee544...@companyweb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi All

Re: [time-nuts] Are the days of buying a crystal numbered?

2010-02-22 Thread Henry Hallam
Anybody know what its performance is like under vibration? Henry On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Marco IK1ODO -2 ik1...@spin-it.com wrote: There are several kits around using the Si570 serires of oscillators. I built the FA-SY and it's very nice:

Re: [time-nuts] Are the days of buying a crystal numbered?

2010-02-22 Thread life speed
From: Henry Hallam he...@pericynthion.org Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Are the days of buying a crystal numbered? Anybody know what its performance is like under vibration? Henry Just guessing here . . .  poor Unless it is a specifically G-hardened device, it is sure to be microphonic.  All

Re: [time-nuts] Are the days of buying a crystal numbered?

2010-02-22 Thread Hal Murray
The trick of including a PLL in an oscillator package has been around for a while. The initial ones were programmed at the factory or distributor. The idea was to avoid the long wait while they polished the crystal to your specific frequency. They stocked them in a handful of frequencies

Re: [time-nuts] Are the days of buying a crystal numbered?

2010-02-22 Thread Magnus Danielson
Hal Murray wrote: The trick of including a PLL in an oscillator package has been around for a while. The initial ones were programmed at the factory or distributor. The idea was to avoid the long wait while they polished the crystal to your specific frequency. They stocked them in a