Re: [time-nuts] TimePod 5330A announcement/info (was TimePod, cross-correlation fun and measurements)

2012-06-18 Thread John Miles
> Hi John, > > Congratulations on a good design. Thanks! > Why the 78 MHz sample frequency ? Long story: it's mostly arbitrary, but at least with some ADCs, it's beneficial to spur performance if the first few dozen harmonics of the ADC clock rate and the most commonly-used test frequencies don

Re: [time-nuts] TimePod 5330A announcement/info (was TimePod, cross-correlation fun and measurements)

2012-06-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <00bf01cd4d12$f83a41d0$e8aec570$@pop.net>, "John Miles" writes: Hi John, Congratulations on a good design. Why the 78 MHz sample frequency ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.

[time-nuts] TimePod 5330A announcement/info (was TimePod, cross-correlation fun and measurements)

2012-06-17 Thread John Miles
> I was recently reading the manual for the TimePod. It looks quite > nice. I'm curious as to the price. I haven't really done a formal "product announcement" on the list or anywhere else beyond the PTTI show last November, for two reasons. One is that the PTTI introduction led to a larger-than-