You are right, the golden bricks were from the Mark III, we were
supposed to wear white cotton gloves to handle them.
This was a wonderful receiver, the one who put the man in the Moon and
tracked Pioneer X from Jupiter and beyond. I heard that Viterbi himself
was in the design team, probably leading the PLL stuff.
Good old days, even we were younger.
Regards,
Ignacio
On 09/02/2012 2:39, Jim Lux wrote:
On 2/8/12 4:47 PM, EB4APL wrote:
Jim,
I already have the info on the remote interface, taken from the PTS 160
doc and other sources, I was asking if he was talking about some
specific gadget.
I also was using at those years some remotely controlled PTS's , did you
know the JPL MK IV receiver exciter? I think it was also a 040 but I'm
not sure, because these changed the phase smoothly but I think that
there is an option with a DDS to allow such thing.
Unfortunatelly those exciters are now dismantled and I think the doc was
dumped, anyway I'll have to make a phone call.
Could be. We have tons and tons of 3325Bs and 3325As floating around,
though. I haven't seen any PTS recently, however, a quick check of the
asset database shows a fair number of them "owned" by Rabi Wang and
William Diener. The latter has most of them.. Models PTS040SANIX-7,
PTS250 and X10SAN10 for the most part.
Both of those guys are in the Frequency and Timing Advanced Instrument
Development Group.
A couple years ago, we cleaned out some storage closets FULL of those
gold plated brick shaped modules that made up the Mark III (at least
that's what I was told).
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