[time-nuts] Re: Z3801A GPS Rx board substitute?

2022-04-08 Thread Art Sepin
Hi, Yes, we're still very much in business but COVID and commercial business commitments have affected my pet VP/UT+ replacement project (for the rest of us). The single board SSR-VP B-1, 6 channel board works in HP Z3801A/Z3805A products and we're now testing in 8 channel VP and UT+ Datum/Sy

[time-nuts] Disabled Thunderbolt

2022-04-08 Thread Neville Michie
Hello All, I had a thunderstorm with a close discharge, the flash and bang were simultaneous. And very loud/bright. I found no sign of a ground strike, but I had damage from the EMP. My Broadband modem was damaged, the router died (all the lights went out and the power supply ran hot). All the e

[time-nuts] Re: Z3801A GPS Rx board substitute?

2022-04-08 Thread Andrew Kalman
I pinged Art at oemi...@synergy-gps.com some time ago as they appear to have announced a drop-in replacement for the Oncore modules, but I never got a response. Dunno if they are still in business, etc. I would like some for my HP Z3805As ... He had previously posted to time-nuts: " "*I apologiz

[time-nuts] Re: Low Phase Noise 10 MHz bench signal source sought

2022-04-08 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi Crystal filtering for far removed phase noise does work. It’s far from a “perfect” solution. The crystal it’s self contributes noise and it does AM to PM conversion. You pretty much always get a “noise hump” as a result. Like any filter, a single crystal filter has an attenuation vs freque

[time-nuts] Z3801A GPS Rx board substitute?

2022-04-08 Thread Dan Rae via time-nuts
My faithful 3801, some 207 thousand hours old, has developed an occasional fault that I think must be down to the Motorola Oncore 6 channel board and I wonder if there is an available unit that could replace this, or what the recommended substitute is?  eBay searches don't show any of the origi

[time-nuts] Re: Evaluating counter performance, seeking feedback.

2022-04-08 Thread Erik Kaashoek
Tom Thanks for the excellent feedback. About what I try to do: I'm trying to find a way to evaluate the performance of a GPSDO/Counter/Timer For the GPSDO an ADEV plot should be ok but for the counter/timer I'm struggling. For the the two input time stamping counter part I understand that one test

[time-nuts] Re: Evaluating counter performance, seeking feedback.

2022-04-08 Thread Tom Van Baak
Thanks for posting both TIM files along with the plots. Here are replies to 3 of your questions: > Is this setup meaningful in assessing performance differences? > If not, how to improve? It's probably better to compare two different counters using the same setup. So give them both the same Rb

[time-nuts] Re: Low Phase Noise 10 MHz bench signal source sought

2022-04-08 Thread Mike Monett
Dear Fans, While I was researching cross-correlation, I came across an interesting paper that described different methods of reducing OCXO phase noise. They involved putting a 10 MHz crystal between the buffer amplifier and the output load. One method promised "sub-thermal" phase noise. The idea i