Re: [time-nuts] question Alan deviation measured with Timelab and counters

2015-01-19 Thread John Miles
John, Your new three-corner hat feature is really cool. Already tried it, even if I did not spend quality time on setting source labels correctly. Whenever I have a setup capable of running it, I will test-spin it again. I suspect that when you make separate measurements, the noise of

Re: [time-nuts] Can one update firmware of Stanford Research Systems SR620 time interval counter?

2015-01-19 Thread lincoln
Hello Dave, That is the same firmware version as mine, I cant tell you if that is the most current. Link On Jan 2, 2015, at 12:50 PM, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk wrote: I'm just in the process of trying to look at writing some GPIB

Re: [time-nuts] Phase/frequency scaling with TIC measurements (long)

2015-01-19 Thread John Miles
Thanks for correcting me there. In this case, we have 5kHz / 10 MHz = 0.0005, right? Yes, that would be it. -- john, KE5FX Miles Design LLC ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to

[time-nuts] Time Nuts Overload, 30 day status

2015-01-19 Thread Tom Van Baak
Hello fellow time nuts, As many of you know, there was a slow meltdown of the time-nuts mailing list late last year. We put a stop to it mid-December (see [1] and [2]). The goal was to get the list back to 10 to 20 high-quality postings per day. The list was sort of turning into a social

Re: [time-nuts] question Alan deviation measured with Timelab and counters

2015-01-19 Thread Bob Camp
Hi On Jan 18, 2015, at 5:12 PM, Stéphane Rey steph@wanadoo.fr wrote: Bonsoir Magnus (Are you in Sweeden ?) Being able to measure high stability and low phase noise is definitely a need for me as I'm trying to design low noise synthesizers and I'm already reaching the limits of my

[time-nuts] Maser on a chip

2015-01-19 Thread Mark Sims
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S42/13/37M75/index.xml Not much detail there... but there is an article in Science. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to

Re: [time-nuts] New algorithm, better ADEV

2015-01-19 Thread Li Ang
frequency. An alternative is to try the experiment a few times, with say, a 10, 20, and 50 ns cable delay in one of the paths. /tvb Hi I have done an 8 hour test with X72 as DUT and FE5650 as Reference. The data is uploaded to http://www.qsl.net/bi7lnq/freqcntv4/test/20150119/x72_FE5650.tim Thanks

Re: [time-nuts] question Alan deviation measured with Timelab and counters

2015-01-19 Thread Magnus Danielson
Bonsoir Stéphane, On 01/18/2015 10:34 PM, Stéphane Rey wrote: Thanks a lot Bob and Magnus for your very helpful comments. The HP5370a was indeed in TI mode. By the way what is the difference with +/-TI, the button just aside... But I guess I understand where I've missed something : I've

Re: [time-nuts] question Alan deviation measured with Timelab and counters

2015-01-19 Thread Stéphane Rey
Bonsoir Magnus (Are you in Sweeden ?) Being able to measure high stability and low phase noise is definitely a need for me as I'm trying to design low noise synthesizers and I'm already reaching the limits of my current tools for phase noise and I can't afford an E5052 for my own. At work

Re: [time-nuts] Ublox 6T receiver, noisy PPS.

2015-01-19 Thread Dan Kemppainen
Hi All, I'll respond to all here, since I'm a little slow at times... John, This unit has been up and running for at least a month. I've restarted the GPSDO a few times, but the GPS has remained on. So, if your unit is up for extended periods of time and you see something similar, please

Re: [time-nuts] question Alan deviation measured with Timelab and counters

2015-01-19 Thread steph.rey
Actually I'm working in the RF department of a big lab, designing RF electronics mainly in microwaves range. I'm luckilly having some tools around to play with and a lot of components like mixers/amplifiers/couplers/splitters/attenuators, ... almost whatever the frequency is up to several tens

Re: [time-nuts] What are some cw signal Generators for ATE test?

2015-01-19 Thread Brooke Clarke
Hi Ivan: I built a number of automated systems for microwave test, see: http://www.prc68.com/I/RASS_PP.html#Spur It was only when testing mixers for specific spurs where we used the synthesized signal generators for low phase noise so that the spectrum analyzer could be used with a narrow