Thank you Mark. I'm just starting to learn about Rb oscillators and GPSDO. I
started on this while repairing my old HP 8660c signal generator, and I wanted
to get all of my equipment on a common sync clock. I bought the X72, because it
was small, thinking I may be able to replace the ocxo in the 8660c with it.
Now I regret wasting $100 on the X72. I will download Lady Heather and see what
I can do with it, while I wait for my True Position to arrive. Thank you,Steve
On Wednesday, September 20, 2017 11:18 AM, Mark Sims <hol...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
GPS disciplined rubidium oscillators are generally not a good idea. Rubidiums
tend to be quite a bit more noisy than OCXOs. Their advantage is their long
term frequency stability. The GPS system in a GPSDO compensates for the OCXO
drift, so the only advantage of a GPS disciplined Rb is if you lose the GPS
signal for a long time.
Also, remember Mark's Law of Rubidium Oscillators... the small the oscillator,
the crappier it is. The X72 is a very small Rb oscillator and , guess what,
it's rather crappy. Noisy, temperature sensitive, not all that good
frequency stability. A decent OCXO can out-perform it.
Lady Heather now supports the X72 (and SA22.c). It has a disciplining routine
that can lock it to a 1PPS input. It uses the X72's built in time interval
counter that has a 16.667 ns resolution (due to noise and synchronizing issues
more like 33 ns).
Later firmware versions of the X72 and SA22.c have a built in 1PPS disciplining
routine, but I am not too impressed with it. It seems rather temperamental
(or just plain mental) and I have seen it go off into la-la land and refuse to
lock.
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