Re: [time-nuts] To improve a Tbolt?

2008-11-21 Thread Ulrich Bangert
I would be interested in this information as well! Best regards Ulrich Bangert -Ursprungliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Dan Rae Gesendet: Donnerstag, 20. November 2008 18:58 An: time-nuts@febo.com Betreff: [time-nuts] To improve

Re: [time-nuts] To improve a Tbolt?

2008-11-21 Thread John Miles
] Behalf Of Ulrich Bangert Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 2:58 AM To: Time nuts Subject: Re: [time-nuts] To improve a Tbolt? I would be interested in this information as well! Best regards Ulrich Bangert -Ursprungliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [time-nuts] To improve a Tbolt?

2008-11-21 Thread Dan Rae
John Miles wrote: I've upgraded the graph on the http://www.ke5fx.com/tbolt.htm page to show the performance of my Thunderbolt from the TAPR group buy (in orange) next to the traces for my older unit before and after the 10811 upgrade. Thanks John, it looks like the Tapr ones have a very

Re: [time-nuts] To improve a Tbolt?

2008-11-21 Thread Tom Van Baak
I've upgraded the graph on the http://www.ke5fx.com/tbolt.htm page to show the performance of my Thunderbolt from the TAPR group buy (in orange) next to the traces for my older unit before and after the 10811 upgrade. There is no upside to tinkering with the OCXO on the TAPR units, unless

Re: [time-nuts] To improve a Tbolt?

2008-11-21 Thread Richard W. Solomon
: Re: [time-nuts] To improve a Tbolt? I've upgraded the graph on the http://www.ke5fx.com/tbolt.htm page to show the performance of my Thunderbolt from the TAPR group buy (in orange) next to the traces for my older unit before and after the 10811 upgrade. There is no upside to tinkering

Re: [time-nuts] To improve a Tbolt?

2008-11-21 Thread John Miles
On your rubidium comment, one needs to be a little careful about expectations. For short tau (say 0.1 to 10 seconds) your average cheap eBay surplus telecom Rb will have far less performance than a good OCXO. Yet mid-term (say 10 to 10^4 seconds), a Rb-GPSDO will win. However, long-term the

Re: [time-nuts] To improve a Tbolt?

2008-11-21 Thread Bruce Griffiths
John Miles wrote: I've upgraded the graph on the http://www.ke5fx.com/tbolt.htm page to show the performance of my Thunderbolt from the TAPR group buy (in orange) next to the traces for my older unit before and after the 10811 upgrade. There is no upside to tinkering with the OCXO on the TAPR

Re: [time-nuts] To improve a Tbolt?

2008-11-21 Thread John Miles
What power supply did the TAPR Thunderbolt use? The green, orange, and red traces used the supply module that came with the TAPR order. You can see the characteristic hump around 3 kHz that appears in many of Tom's plots with this supply as well. The blue trace was the old-style packaged

[time-nuts] To improve a Tbolt?

2008-11-20 Thread Dan Rae
I have been reading with interest John Miles' page about his Tbolt 'upgrade'. http://www.thegleam.com/ke5fx/tbolt.htm I have a newly acquired Tbolt here, and also have lying around an almost identical 10811-60111 OCXO which I am considering using with it, exactly as John describes. However