Hi For your immediate need, a Thunderbolt sounds like the ideal solution. It will give you a very accurate reference to sort out your test gear and likely "good enough" phase noise for most of the rest of what you want to do. Once you get into the microwave stuff, plan your PLL's properly and all will be well there.
Bob On Jun 3, 2012, at 2:19 PM, Chris Wilson wrote: > > > > > 03/06/2012 19:09 > > Thanks for the great replies! My immediate need is to check some used > test equipment I have bought, a Racal dana 9908 counter and a Marconi > 2019A signal generator. They don't agree with one another! I was going > to get a Thunderbolt unit and PS, but my friend mentioning noise got > me worried. I may have a play with some SDR gear and I know they can > be locked to a standard i you have one. Longer term my aim is to have > a play with microwaves, which is what this friend is into, and maybe > he has a particular issue with noise with sort of multiplication he is > using? The fact that a GPS reference can be always on and locked to a > reference that someone else maintains, if I understand things correctly, > if simplistically, appeals. I am happy to be guided though, and I > suppose I could always get a different type later if the specific need > arose, although I am not made of money ;) > > Thanks! > > > > -- > Best Regards, > Chris Wilson. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
