Hello Folks, In my collection of stuff, I found an FTS 1050a in good condition. It has been sitting for 5 years, and I decided to fire it up last night. It works. Opened it up and took a look inside. The main reference is a large box which I assumed was filled with foam insulation. Everything is screw together, so I decided to take a look inside. A bunch of control electronics, all the normal foam, with the cylinder mounted in the middle of the foam. The cylinder slides out, and Lo and Behold..... The oscillator sits inside a little thermos bottle. A Dewar, I guess its called. I should point out that I am new to this area of electronics and had never seen one of these before. There is a rubber blanket all around the oscillator so it fits snugly into the Dewar. I reassembled it all, with breaking anything and fired it back up again. All is fine.
So what the heck am I droning on about?? Well here is the deal; this is a special version of the 1050A made for cable television companies. The output is 6.0003 Mhz that fed a comb generator creating harmonics that were the local oscillator reference for each ascending cable TV channel. So as nice as this thing is and I would like to use it..... What do you do with a 6.0003 Mhz frequency Standard. Its not going to tune to 5. 00000 Mhz and its doubtful that the oven can be modified without great expense. Dividing the 6.0003 Mhz doesn't seem feasible. Any suggestions? It very nice to look at maybe I will put it in the rack for aesthetics alone? Bummed Paul A. Cianciolo W1VLF http://www.rescueelectronics.com/ Our business computer network is powered exclusively by solar and wind power. Converting Photons to Electrons for over 20 years _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.