Murray, Thank you for the idea. I do like the idea of leaving the 1050 completely stock with the exception of adding a DDS size board. What about the programming to say give a 5 or 10 MHz output from an odd clock frequency.
Where did you get your DDS kit and who did the programming? 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 -----Original Message----- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Murray Greenman Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 2:19 PM To: time-nuts@febo.com Subject: [time-nuts] FTS 1050A The FTS 1050A sounds like a very nice toy. I agree with one of the other suggestions - use the device as a reference for a DDS generator, so you can have any frequency you like, with high stability. Many of the newer DDS chips have excellent performance, and in addition include a clock multiplier. I have an AD9852 kit, and it can multiply by up to 20, so would give ~120MHz as the reference from your FTS1050A, and then have useful output to 30MHz. The synthesizer is 48 bit, so the steps are very small. I use mine with an odd-frequency FEI Rubidium source (about 60MHz) and the results are very good - any frequency I want with microHz resolution. Regards, Murray Greenman _______________________________________________ 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
