Re: [time-nuts] crystal oscillators TPLL

2010-06-23 Thread Steve Rooke
My apologies, I stand corrected. Steve On 23 June 2010 16:32, John Allen j...@pcsupportsolutions.com wrote: Um, This group/list/reflector is NOT related to Yahoo, but is hosted on febo.com thanks to John Ackerman, N8UR.  Thanks, John John Allen K1AE -Original Message- From:

Re: [time-nuts] FRS-C TTL / sine outboard filter question

2010-06-23 Thread Robert Atkinson
Hi Leigh, I can't comment on the crystal filter option., but I've found that the packaged filters and filter/balun modules from old 10Mb/s Ethernet cards work well. See this excellent little page by Dave G4HUP http://g4hup.com/DA/Filters%20Transformers%20and%20DC%20Converters.pdf   Robert

Re: [time-nuts] crystal oscillators TPLL

2010-06-23 Thread Steve Rooke
Bob, On 23 June 2010 15:13, Robert Benward rbenw...@verizon.net wrote: Steve, It is admirable that you stick up for Warren.  Part of Warren's problem is Now, let's please get this straight, I have been trying to act as a facilitator in all of this because I believe that I know what the ral

Re: [time-nuts] FRS-C TTL / sine outboard filter question

2010-06-23 Thread Mike Feher
On a military satcom program in the mid 80's that I worked on, we used a 10 MHz crystal filter with about a 100 Hz BW to reduce phase noise of our Rb source. Regards - Mike Mike B. Feher, N4FS 89 Arnold Blvd. Howell, NJ 07731 732-886-5960 -Original Message- From:

Re: [time-nuts] FRS-C TTL / sine outboard filter question

2010-06-23 Thread Didier Juges
If your concern is to clean up the harmonics, a crystal ladder filter is probably not the best choice, a low pass filter would be easier to design, would probably require no adjustment and be cheaper in parts with less effect on the fundamental signal you are interested in. If your concern is

Re: [time-nuts] FRS-C TTL / sine outboard filter question

2010-06-23 Thread Mike S
At 12:54 AM 6/23/2010, Leigh L. Klotz, Jr WA5ZNU wrote... At the local flea market, I picked up what appears to be an Efratom FRS-C. It is marked TTL internally. It has the passive connector board, but not the active board with the 15 MHz synthesizer on it. Connector board? No such beast

Re: [time-nuts] FRS-C TTL / sine outboard filter question

2010-06-23 Thread GandalfG8
In a message dated 23/06/2010 14:12:00 GMT Daylight Time, mi...@flatsurface.com writes: At the local flea market, I picked up what appears to be an Efratom FRS-C. It is marked TTL internally. It has the passive connector board, but not the active board with the 15 MHz synthesizer on

Re: [time-nuts] FRS-C TTL / sine outboard filter question

2010-06-23 Thread Adrian
... Mine is marked TTL internally. The service manual has a chart showing the differences between the sine and TTL options, and I converted it to the sine version by changing a jumper to a resistor and populating an LC filter with 10uH and 100pF (~5 MHz). I also terminated the RF

Re: [time-nuts] TPLL

2010-06-23 Thread Bob Tetrault
Dear Steve, In a word: WORD! Nowhere, in my recent experience, has the expert syndrome been so painfully obvious. Ah, the ecstasy of sanctimony! On 6/23/2010 5:00 AM, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote: Send time-nuts mailing list submissions to time-nuts@febo.com To subscribe or

Re: [time-nuts] FRS-C TTL / sine outboard filter question

2010-06-23 Thread Leigh L. Klotz, Jr. WA5ZNU
Mike S wrote: It sounds like you made the changes to the A4 oscillator board, but not the ones to the A3 power supply board (several inductors, resistors and caps). I found that using a 1 uF for C16, instead of the documented 0.1 uF, gives a better signal. See the top of page A-15 in the

Re: [time-nuts] FRS-C TTL / sine outboard filter question

2010-06-23 Thread Leigh L. Klotz, Jr. WA5ZNU
... [snip] If you need a sine wave output but don't want to change anything inside, just add a lowpass filter. A 5th order LPF (three inductors/ 2 caps or vice versa) should give you a clean sine wave output. Just add a coupling cap to remove the DC component. Adrian _ Thank you,

Re: [time-nuts] FRS-C TTL / sine outboard filter question

2010-06-23 Thread Mike S
At 04:19 PM 6/23/2010, Leigh L. Klotz, Jr. WA5ZNU wrote... If you have these values we can document the rest of this process in one place. 10 MHz sine TTL L1 ?.? uH L1 OMIT L2 1? uH Replace with R23 130 OHM 1 WATT R16 ?10 OHM NOM

Re: [time-nuts] FRS-C TTL / sine outboard filter question

2010-06-23 Thread Didier Juges
Leigh, A narrow filter around 10MHz is likely to show phase ripple in its passband, and that will most certainly vary over temperature, not a good thing for ADEV, that's why a LPF is preferred. Also, most crystal filters may not be happy with the output level of a typical OCXO, so you would

Re: [time-nuts] FRS-C TTL / sine outboard filter question

2010-06-23 Thread Leigh L. Klotz, Jr. WA5ZNU
Thank you, Didier. That pretty much sums it up. I was aware of the signal level issue but didn't consider that passband ripple would be temperature sensitive. It's fun learning to think in the long time domain. In the meantime I've found a 10 mbit ethernet ISA card in my office and will follow

Re: [time-nuts] crystal oscillators TPLL

2010-06-23 Thread Dick Moore
@ Steve Rooke -- Warren and I have had correspondence in the past about other things, and I was very interested in his TPLL implementation. Someone in the thread had asked Warren if he would supply a schematic diagram of his particular set-up. I never saw an answer to that, so I asked too.

Re: [time-nuts] FRS-C TTL / sine outboard filter question

2010-06-23 Thread Mike Feher
I do not understand why the passband ripple would be of any consequence in the big (or small as we typically talk about) picture. During any measurement interval, it will be a constant, for all practical purposes, including ours. A measurement at a different time, at a different temperature that

[time-nuts] Substitute GPS in a Z3801A

2010-06-23 Thread Robert Benward
Has anyone ever put another GPS in a Z3801A? Will the software accommodate another GPS that tracks say, 12 channels? Bob ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts

Re: [time-nuts] FRS-C TTL / sine outboard filter question

2010-06-23 Thread Didier Juges
Mike, I agree with you that for SatCom application, long term stability is not as much of a concern, phase noise typically is the main issue. But I suspect that for a time nuts looking at stability over periods of hours or days, temperature effects cannot be ignored. Passband ripple usually