Are Oscilloquartz's Star-4 commands described somewhere? I can't find
them in the wild...

On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 4:34 AM, Mark Sims <hol...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Several years ago I replaced the OCXOs in some Tektronix DC5010 counters with 
> surplus Oscilloquartz 8663 DOCXOs.   The darn things have freaky good aging 
> characteristics.   They have been on 24/7 (except for a few brief 
> power-outages) for over 3 years.   After a month I set their freq against a 
> cesium oscillator.   They still show 10 MHz out to 8 or 9 decimal places.
>
> I just got in an Oscilloquartz Star-4 ATDC (automatic temperature / drift 
> compensation) that uses the same DOCXO.   They take 24 hours from a cold 
> start before the ATDC learning kicks in (you can fake it out by power cycling 
> during that interval and it thinks it was a brief outage and reports a 1 hour 
> learning delay).   After an unspecified time (at least several days) the 
> device learns the compensation characteristics and the holdover performance 
> status switches from POOR to IN-SPEC.   I have not yet gotten it past the 
> learning stage...
>
> Oh,  and Lady Heather now speaks Star-4 management interface commands which 
> are also used on a NEC GPSDO that shows up on Ebay... I have one of those on 
> order.
>
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>> OSA8663: per year, 3.0E-8, in 10 years < 30.0E-8
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