On 12/11/2014 4:20 PM, Bob Camp wrote:
Hi Those OCXO’s were made to the spec’s of an OEM customer. The spec’s are owned by that customer and can not be released without authorization from them. Anybody who wants to stay in the business would be a bit crazy to release somebody else’s intelectual property to the public. That’s not an uncommon issue with surplus OCXO”s. Rouglly 99.9% of them are built to customer spec. Bob
The reminds me of when I worked for HP. We had a division that made diodes, which all had a part number of the form 5082-XXXX. There was a special series of part numbers of the form 5082-5XXX that never appeared in the catalog. I remember I was working on a step recovery diode multiplier and was trying to reverse engineer various multipliers that were designed into commercial equipment. I got the HP part number of the diode which was of the form 5082-5XXX from the manual and found out that there was no data available on these part numbers in the HP internal system. I called the Microwave Semiconductor Division and got the story Bob gave about OEM spec's. I said, sure I understand that, but I work for HP. I was told that you have to work for MSD, not just HP to get access to this information, and in any event, they would NOT sell us these diodes, even as an internal transfer. Rick Karlquist N6RK HP 1979-1999 (then Agilent) _______________________________________________ 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.
