Ed's experience is pretty common. When I was curious about that, I had a similar experience. Enough to know not to ever worry about it again. I have the TCXO. 73, Guy.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 4:52 PM, KD7PY <[email protected]> wrote: > I just did a freq. calibration of my K3. > with the dial set to 9.999.000 in usb for wwv at 10 mhz, that gave me a 1 > khz tone that I sent to the computer using Spectran that will show the freq > of the audio. I was able to set thr REF CAL in the K3 to be within .03 cycle > of dead beat. I calibrated my Xtal reference osc dead beat with wwv. and > then set the K3 to 6 meters , dial set to 49.999.000 to give a 1 khz tone > and checked the 5 harmonic of the xtal osc. and found that the K3 was only > off 8.68 cycles. due to the fact I was using the 5th harmonic of the xtal > osc there is some small error. I did a freq drift check before doing the > above and found my K3 had a drift of only 8.5 cycles over a 2 hour warm > up..... > > to me this is darn good... > > Ed KD7PY (ex K7WIA) > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3-Drift-tp7597035p7597073.html > Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
