d...@irtelemetrics.com said: > If I had 10Mhz or some other high frequency on the EFC line, would a typical > OCXO respond to that?
Some VCXOs actually specify their bandwidth. High audio is sometimes useful. I haven't seen anything beyond that, but I'm just listening to discussions like this one. There could well be applications that use a higher frequency. One application is correcting for mechanical vibrations. This is interesting in radar used on helicopters. (They do Doppler filtering to remove clutter. The lower speed of objects that can get through the filter depends on the clock stability.) PCs often FM modulate their clocks. It's a hack to get past the FCC EMI requirements. It spreads a spike in the frequency domain into a blob with a lower peak. I think 30 KHz is typical. The PCI specs were tweaked to allow this so they probably say something about the legal frequency limit. PCs probably don't use expensive OCXOs, but that technology might get used in other applications. How do FM modulators work? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ 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.