Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
The price seems reasonable, esp. with free shipping. Does anyone have experience with these? Is the circuit board included?
I could not resist at < $40.00 delivered. Mine has been running for a couple of weeks, but my measurements have been inconclusive (I suspect my setup is far from ideal, especially the handling of the 10 MHz signal).
The unit I bought was mounted on a sheared off portion of a large PCB with a ground plane / heat sink. It came with an extra DB9 connector and another oscillator (Vectron, ~ 64MHz) thrown in.
I have not had time to see if my unit responds to programming from through RS-232, but there is connectivity through the pins and there is a MAXIM RS-232 chip inside so I am optimistic.
When I first fired it up I simply compared its 10 MHz to a 10MHz OCXO that is (manually) disciplined to GPS (another project!). I was impressed when after it locked and settled for a few minutes the two 10MHz waveforms were stationary. After a few minutes I could detect some slight drift, but I estimate the two sources agreed to maybe 2 - 3 * 10^-11. That is about as good as I can keep my OCXO so I'm not sure which of the two sources is better.
The unit is now mounted on a large heat sink (from a surplus 100W RF load). In my lab the temperature at the top of the case has been running around 45 to 50 C.
I am redoing my test setup as I write. I have new power supplies and plan on routing the 10MHz better.
My basic test will be to track the (averaged) time interval between a 1PPS from an old Ref Tek 111A GPS clock and a 1PPS derived from the 5680A 10MHz.
After I have a few days of reasonable results I will report to the list.
Best regards,
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