Re: [time-nuts] China Oscillator Alternative

2016-11-10 Thread Adrian Godwin
I looked at this when it was mentioned here a few weeks ago. I did the procedure in an hour or so and it's working well, keeping the PPS within 50ns of GPS with 6-8 satellites. Monitored by the patched version of Z38XX at the moment though I look forward to putting Lady Heather on the job. The cur

[time-nuts] China Oscillator Alternative

2016-11-10 Thread Mark Sims
Plus, you can add a Motrorla UT+ GPS receiver into the Z3812A and turn it into a GPSDO. There is a nice writeup of the procedure on EEVBLOG. Basically you move a half dozen 0 ohm resistors and add a resistor for the antenna current sense circuit. Also, Lady Heather now talks to them. ___

Re: [time-nuts] China Oscillator Alternative

2016-11-10 Thread Bob Camp
Hi Unless we are talking about something completely different …. The Z3812’s have a *lot* of information back in the archives. Just about anything you would want to know is buried in there. Just like “back then” they still are new in the box / old stock. You aren’t buying something that has sat o

Re: [time-nuts] China Oscillator Alternative

2016-11-10 Thread Gerhard Hoffmann
Am 10.11.2016 um 07:02 schrieb Ed Armstrong: These have 10Mhz & 15Mhz out, which frequency is the OCXO? A 5 MHz MTI-260 See the text I linked to a few days ago. On 11/9/2016 7:18 PM, Perry Sandeen via time-nuts wrote: List, After all the problems that Bob Camp has noted with surplus O

Re: [time-nuts] China Oscillator Alternative

2016-11-09 Thread Ed Armstrong
These have 10Mhz & 15Mhz out, which frequency is the OCXO? Ed On 11/9/2016 7:18 PM, Perry Sandeen via time-nuts wrote: List, After all the problems that Bob Camp has noted with surplus OCXO's from China, perhaps buying the new Lucent units on Ebay may save bad words and/or unhappy actions.

Re: [time-nuts] China Oscillator Alternative

2016-11-09 Thread Attila Kinali
On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 00:18:31 + (UTC) Perry Sandeen via time-nuts wrote: > After all the problems that Bob Camp has noted with surplus OCXO's from > China, perhaps buying the new Lucent units on Ebay may save bad words and/or > unhappy actions. Depends on what you are after. IMHO, unless th

[time-nuts] China Oscillator Alternative

2016-11-09 Thread Perry Sandeen via time-nuts
List, After all the problems that Bob Camp has noted with surplus OCXO's from China, perhaps buying the new Lucent units on Ebay may save bad words and/or unhappy actions. LUCENT/SYMMETRICOMKS-24361 L101, Z3812A, RFTG-U REF-0 UNIT -CASE OF 2 EACH  $80 So for about $50 each delivered one has two