Re: [time-nuts] Neat toys on eBay for PN measurement

2007-07-18 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Edwin B. Walker said the following on 07/18/2007 07:06 PM: > ); SAEximRunCond expanded to false > Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > John, I am getting this first line in all the time-nuts messages about > bounces Hi Ed (and others) -- Yes, we've had this problem for a couple of weeks since a

Re: [time-nuts] Neat toys on eBay for PN measurement

2007-07-18 Thread Edwin B. Walker
ROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 7:49 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Neat toys on eBay for PN measurement > ); SAEximRunCond expanded to false > Errors-To: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > John Miles said the following on 0

Re: [time-nuts] Neat toys on eBay for PN measurement

2007-07-15 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Miles said the following on 07/12/2007 04:28 PM: > John A., did you get yours yet? Wonder if the third one went to a member of > this list; I didn't recognize the eBay user ID. I've been out of town and had deliveries held, bu

Re: [time-nuts] Neat toys on eBay for PN measurement

2007-07-12 Thread John Miles
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of John Miles > Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 8:14 AM > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Neat toys on eBay for PN measurement > > > ); SAEximRunCond expanded to false > Errors-To: [EMA

Re: [time-nuts] Neat toys on eBay for PN measurement

2007-07-10 Thread Grant Hodgson
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The 8662A derrives it's 640MHz o/p from a (very) good 10MHz crystal osc. which is then doubled 6 times and filtered at the 40MHz and 160MHz stages with crystal filters. The problem with using so many multipliers is that the noise

Re: [time-nuts] Neat toys on eBay for PN measurement

2007-07-10 Thread John Miles
uency > measurement > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Neat toys on eBay for PN measurement > > > > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Grant Hodgson wrote: > > > I've been wondering if it would be possible or practical to > > replace the internal Step-Recovery Diode comb generator

Re: [time-nuts] Neat toys on eBay for PN measurement

2007-07-10 Thread Jeffrey Pawlan
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Grant Hodgson wrote: > I've been wondering if it would be possible or practical to > replace the internal Step-Recovery Diode comb generator in the 11729B/C > with one of the Non-Linear Transmission Line comb g

Re: [time-nuts] Neat toys on eBay for PN measurement

2007-07-10 Thread Mike Feher
Hodgson Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 8:48 AM To: time-nuts@febo.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Neat toys on eBay for PN measurement John Don't know if you got an answer, but this is my understanding :- The 11729B needs to have an external 640MHz reference input for measurements above 1280MHz.

Re: [time-nuts] Neat toys on eBay for PN measurement

2007-07-10 Thread Grant Hodgson
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Don't know if you got an answer, but this is my understanding :- The 11729B needs to have an external 640MHz reference input for measurements above 1280MHz. The 11729C has a SAW-based 640MHz oscillator built-in, but it can t

Re: [time-nuts] Neat toys on eBay for PN measurement

2007-07-04 Thread John Miles
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mark Kahrs wrote: > Hey, why not buy a 11848A (160117841068) from the same seller? > Only 2.6K$! > Put that in your PN system... I saw that, but (a) the 11729C already did enough damage to the exchequer, and (b) I'm not clear on wh

Re: [time-nuts] Neat toys on eBay for PN measurement

2007-07-04 Thread John Miles
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's something I meant to ask you about, Rick, as a follow-up to an old Usenet post of yours from 1995. From looking over the block diagram in the 11729B-1 app note, it appears that there is no reason why you couldn't feed any suff

Re: [time-nuts] Neat toys on eBay for PN measurement

2007-07-04 Thread Mark Kahrs
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey, why not buy a 11848A (160117841068) from the same seller? Only 2.6K$! Put that in your PN system... On 7/4/07, Richard (Rick) Karlquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ); SAEximRunCond expanded to false > Errors-To: time-nuts-bo

Re: [time-nuts] Neat toys on eBay for PN measurement

2007-07-03 Thread Richard \(Rick\) Karlquist
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Basically this is a general-purpose microwave downconverter whose LO uses > harmonics of the 640-MHz reference output from an 8662A/8663A to > downconvert > the signal to be measured to a frequency below 1280 MHz, where it is then >

[time-nuts] Neat toys on eBay for PN measurement

2007-07-03 Thread John Miles
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are a couple of near-mint-looking HP 11729C carrier noise test sets on eBay right now. They are sold by nouturnhere, a great seller in my experience. They have the AM noise detection option (130) and all of the available filte