Re: [time-nuts] statistical distribution of initial frequency error in tcxos

2019-03-14 Thread Achim Gratz
jimlux writes: > Here's the application: > 100 (or 1000) independent nodes (in space, as it happens) - I want to > calculate the probability that two nodes are within some delta f of > each other. Provided I get correctly what you are trying to do: perhaps it would be easier to take one of the pro

Re: [time-nuts] statistical distribution of initial frequency error in tcxos

2019-03-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <583f5f3f-6b56-1255-4e6d-afd465cc4...@earthlink.net>, jimlux writes: >On 3/13/19 9:17 AM, Attila Kinali wrote: >(recognizing that I can probably do something like modulate the >reference broadcast with a single bit from some existing part and do >CDMA in some form - but it wa

Re: [time-nuts] statistical distribution of initial frequency error in tcxos

2019-03-13 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi If you have something in the 100’s of these “up there” with things like doppler / temperature / radiation / and aging all involved ….. how different do they need to be in order for the initial delta frequency to be useful / good enough ? I can see a pretty good argument that something past

Re: [time-nuts] statistical distribution of initial frequency error in tcxos

2019-03-13 Thread jimlux
On 3/13/19 2:28 PM, wb6bnq wrote: Hi Jim, If you have a mother-ship and presuming that it is going to be within "RF" range of all little ones, how about sending a "PILOT" tone that comes from the mother-ship to phase lock all the little ones internal oscillators ??? That's basically the ide

Re: [time-nuts] statistical distribution of initial frequency error in tcxos

2019-03-13 Thread Mark Goldberg
On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 9:02 AM jimlux wrote: > If I go out and buy 100 TCXOs with a spec of, say, 50 ppm, what does the > distribution of the initial frequencies (and, I suppose, the frequencies > after aging) look like. > > If you are buying 1000, you probably will get the manufacturer to test

Re: [time-nuts] statistical distribution of initial frequency error in tcxos

2019-03-13 Thread Hal Murray
jim...@earthlink.net said: > Oh, and I don't really care about the frequency variation with temperature > (since that can be calibrated) but I'd like really good phase noise. For, > say, <$5 each in qty 1000. Neat question. $5 is above the super low cost range so there might be some technic

Re: [time-nuts] statistical distribution of initial frequency error in tcxos

2019-03-13 Thread wb6bnq
Hi Jim, If you have a mother-ship and presuming that it is going to be within "RF" range of all little ones, how about sending a "PILOT" tone that comes from the mother-ship to phase lock all the little ones internal oscillators ??? If there is a master oscillator of any note (i.e., say a Rb

Re: [time-nuts] statistical distribution of initial frequency error in tcxos

2019-03-13 Thread ed breya
What is the available channel bandwidth for the inter-unit communications? Ed ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions ther

Re: [time-nuts] statistical distribution of initial frequency error in tcxos

2019-03-13 Thread Chris Howard
Heterodyne them up x100 and they will be less crowded? On 3/13/19 1:49 PM, jimlux wrote: This whole scheme breaks horribly if too many signals are too close together, and I suspect that this is the actual case.  So we need to have a way to explicitly move the signals around. __

Re: [time-nuts] statistical distribution of initial frequency error in tcxos

2019-03-13 Thread jimlux
On 3/13/19 9:17 AM, Attila Kinali wrote: Hoi Jim, On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 08:39:24 -0700 jimlux wrote: For instance, if I'm buying 10MHz oscillators with a spec of 5ppm, they'll all fall in a band +/- 50 Hz. But how many are within 1 Hz? within 0.1Hz? I have never measured TCXOs, but I've seen

Re: [time-nuts] statistical distribution of initial frequency error in tcxos

2019-03-13 Thread jimlux
On 3/13/19 9:45 AM, Bob kb8tq wrote: Hi Ok, a bit of nomenclature: TCXO = temperature compensated crystal oscillator = it has a compensation network in it XO = crystal oscillator = it does not have a compensation network in it Why does that matter in this case? They are different products tar

Re: [time-nuts] statistical distribution of initial frequency error in tcxos

2019-03-13 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi Ok, a bit of nomenclature: TCXO = temperature compensated crystal oscillator = it has a compensation network in it XO = crystal oscillator = it does not have a compensation network in it Why does that matter in this case? They are different products targeted at different markets and differ

Re: [time-nuts] statistical distribution of initial frequency error in tcxos

2019-03-13 Thread Attila Kinali
Hoi Jim, On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 08:39:24 -0700 jimlux wrote: > For instance, if I'm buying 10MHz oscillators with a spec of 5ppm, > they'll all fall in a band +/- 50 Hz. But how many are within 1 Hz? > within 0.1Hz? I have never measured TCXOs, but I've seen data of other devices that are adjus

[time-nuts] statistical distribution of initial frequency error in tcxos

2019-03-13 Thread jimlux
If I go out and buy 100 TCXOs with a spec of, say, 50 ppm, what does the distribution of the initial frequencies (and, I suppose, the frequencies after aging) look like. I would think these days that the manufacturer sets the tolerance based on manufacturing performance, so they don't get too