Re: [time-nuts] E1938A PN measurments

2012-09-30 Thread Bob Camp
Hi Close in, it looks like it's pretty much the crystal and the loading of the bridge oscillator. Bob On Sep 29, 2012, at 11:46 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist rich...@karlquist.com wrote: The E1938A uses a crystal that is basically the same as the 10811 crystal except that it is in a reduced

Re: [time-nuts] E1938A PN measurments

2012-09-30 Thread Richard (Rick) Karlquist
I recently modified an old 10811 to bring out the crystal leads on miniature coax (instead of having them connect to the oscillator circuit). This allowed me to measure the crystal's inherent flicker noise of frequency. The measurements indicate that the 10811 phase noise out to at least 100 Hz

Re: [time-nuts] E1938A PN measurments

2012-09-30 Thread Tom Knox
. Thanks; Thomas Knox Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 10:03:03 -0700 From: rich...@karlquist.com To: time-nuts@febo.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] E1938A PN measurments I recently modified an old 10811 to bring out the crystal leads on miniature coax (instead of having them connect to the oscillator

Re: [time-nuts] E1938A PN measurments

2012-09-30 Thread Bob Camp
be interesting to here how you would approach the next quartz industry standard. The next generation Blue-Top or BVA. Thanks; Thomas Knox Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 10:03:03 -0700 From: rich...@karlquist.com To: time-nuts@febo.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] E1938A PN measurments I

Re: [time-nuts] E1938A PN measurments

2012-09-30 Thread Ed Palmer
Would this characteristic be similar across all 10811s or would there be as much unit to unit variation as there is for aging and Allan Deviation? Ed On 9/30/2012 11:03 AM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote: I recently modified an old 10811 to bring out the crystal leads on miniature coax

Re: [time-nuts] E1938A PN measurments

2012-09-30 Thread Richard (Rick) Karlquist
I only measured one 10811. However, John Vig's tutorial (available at IEEE UFFC) rather categorically states that piezoelectric resonators have flicker noise of frequency. What I measured was most closely related to phase noise, as opposed to Allan Deviation. Phase noise of 10811's is more

Re: [time-nuts] E1938A PN measurments

2012-09-30 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 09/30/2012 09:49 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote: I only measured one 10811. However, John Vig's tutorial (available at IEEE UFFC) rather categorically states that piezoelectric resonators have flicker noise of frequency. What I measured was most closely related to phase noise, as opposed

Re: [time-nuts] E1938A PN measurments

2012-09-30 Thread EWKehren
Rick I have some 10811's all below 1 E-12 in the 1 to 100 sec. range, a few as low as 4 E-13 at 10 seconds. How low have you seen, I have the opportunity to test 40+ units and hope to find a few even better ones. Any guidance will be appreciated. My best reference is 3 E-13 so any thing as

Re: [time-nuts] E1938A PN measurments

2012-09-30 Thread Bill Dailey
Bert, When you do tests like this, how long do you let the oscillators settle prior to testing? Doc Sent from my iPad On Sep 30, 2012, at 4:23 PM, ewkeh...@aol.com wrote: Rick I have some 10811's all below 1 E-12 in the 1 to 100 sec. range, a few as low as 4 E-13 at 10 seconds. How low

Re: [time-nuts] E1938A PN measurments

2012-09-30 Thread EWKehren
Doc The units I mentioned have been done by Corby, but I let units run two weeks before I do any test. In the future when I do the 40+ two a week running parallel and the best rerun after 4 week soak. Bert In a message dated 9/30/2012 7:55:43 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

Re: [time-nuts] E1938A PN measurments

2012-09-30 Thread Richard (Rick) Karlquist
On 9/30/2012 2:20 PM, Magnus Danielson wrote: With two such offset 10811s you could use DMTD methods or for that matter cross-correlation phase noise measures to more directly measure the units. That way you would have avoided the golden unit issue, since the phase noise of those would

Re: [time-nuts] E1938A PN measurments

2012-09-30 Thread Richard (Rick) Karlquist
Sorry I have never seen those statistics. Rick On 9/30/2012 2:23 PM, ewkeh...@aol.com wrote: Rick I have some 10811's all below 1 E-12 in the 1 to 100 sec. range, a few as low as 4 E-13 at 10 seconds. How low have you seen, I have the opportunity to test 40+ units and hope to find a few even

Re: [time-nuts] E1938A PN measurments

2012-09-30 Thread Bill Dailey
I have a corby ocxo (datum-c) that I am coupling with a fury oem board soon (need some connectors). I wish someone with good measurement equipment lived nearby. I would like to measure this vs my standard fury. I think the ocxo is mid 10-13 at 1s. Anybody near Kansas City? Doc Sent

Re: [time-nuts] E1938A PN measurments

2012-09-30 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 10/01/2012 02:05 AM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote: On 9/30/2012 2:20 PM, Magnus Danielson wrote: With two such offset 10811s you could use DMTD methods or for that matter cross-correlation phase noise measures to more directly measure the units. That way you would have avoided the

[time-nuts] E1938A PN measurments

2012-09-29 Thread Bruce Griffiths
For those that have Timelab the link to the E1938A PN measurement data is: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/59708595/E1938A.tim Bruce ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to

Re: [time-nuts] E1938A PN measurments

2012-09-29 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 09/29/2012 02:45 PM, Bruce Griffiths wrote: For those that have Timelab the link to the E1938A PN measurement data is: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/59708595/E1938A.tim Thank you. I will measure mine so that we can compare them. Cross-correlation with a pair of BVAs should do it. Cheers,

Re: [time-nuts] E1938A PN measurments

2012-09-29 Thread Bruce Griffiths
Magnus Danielson wrote: On 09/29/2012 02:45 PM, Bruce Griffiths wrote: For those that have Timelab the link to the E1938A PN measurement data is: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/59708595/E1938A.tim Thank you. I will measure mine so that we can compare them. Cross-correlation with a pair of BVAs

Re: [time-nuts] E1938A PN measurments

2012-09-29 Thread Richard (Rick) Karlquist
The E1938A uses a crystal that is basically the same as the 10811 crystal except that it is in a reduced height package. However the phase noise is not as good as a 10811 due to broadband noise in the automatic frequency control circuit. By the time I discovered this, it was too late to try to