I'll run a search for them then. I didnt really have much look here in the uk for a crystal oven, but I did find a good webpage for a project oven, only simple maths and very stable results. I dont really have a desperate need for such a thing, its just an interest, I've outgrown decoding time signals.
On 25 Jan, 17:04, David Forbes <dfor...@dakotacom.net> wrote: > On 1/25/12 9:28 AM, H. Carl Ott wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:50 PM, David Forbes<dfor...@dakotacom.net> > > wrote: > >> On 1/24/12 3:45 AM, dr pepper wrote: > > >>> Oh es, thanks for the link John. > >>> The problem with building a crystal oven is callibration, you need to > >>> find out what temp the xtal needs to run at to produce exactly the > >>> right freq. > > >> You can buy them on ebay for not much money. For that matter, a used > >> rubidium source can be had for a few hundred dollars. > > > Few hundred? I just got one from ebay (fe-5680a) for 43.00 delivered. > > Going rate is under 50 bucks. > > Just have to figure out what I'm going to use it for. > > The price must have come down - I admit that I haven't looked for a > couple years, since a guy doesn't need TWO rubidium sources. > > Unless he's the proprietor ofhttp://www.leapsecond.comthat is. In that > case, he needs a suite of them to get much better composite accuracy. > And a cesium clock to calibrate them against. > > -- > David Forbes, Tucson AZ- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
