Re: [time-nuts] Neat toys on eBay for PN measurement

2007-07-10 Thread Grant Hodgson
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Don't know if you got an answer, but this is my understanding :- The 11729B needs to have an external 640MHz reference input for measurements above 1280MHz. The 11729C has a SAW-based 640MHz oscillator built-in, but it can

Re: [time-nuts] Neat toys on eBay for PN measurement

2007-07-10 Thread Mike Feher
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a 11729C with a full complement of filters. Have not had time to play with it yet, as I just got a working 8662A. Regardless, be careful if you are going to bid on them. Most of them only have one or two filters. So, the

Re: [time-nuts] Neat toys on eBay for PN measurement

2007-07-10 Thread Jeffrey Pawlan
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Grant Hodgson wrote: I've been wondering if it would be possible or practical to replace the internal Step-Recovery Diode comb generator in the 11729B/C with one of the Non-Linear Transmission Line comb

Re: [time-nuts] NIST frequency doubler

2007-07-10 Thread michael taylor
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 7/7/07, Dr Bruce Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With suitable modifications to allow individual adjustement/selection of the bias for each JFET a pair of the more readily obtainable J310's can be substituted for the U431.

[time-nuts] HP-3336A Level Generator Question

2007-07-10 Thread Tom Clifton
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The UPS man just delivered a care package from my latest ebay purchase!!! I fired it up and found the front panel displayed properly, but no output on the 75ohm BNC connector, but the rear panel 21-60mhz aux works fine as mesured by

Re: [time-nuts] Neat toys on eBay for PN measurement

2007-07-10 Thread John Miles
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Picosecond Pulse Labs quoted me $1,000 for one of the NLTL comb generators a couple of years ago. They are nice parts, no question about it, and substantially better than SRD multipliers. In quantity, they would be cheaper, since I

Re: [time-nuts] Neat toys on eBay for PN measurement

2007-07-10 Thread Grant Hodgson
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The 8662A derrives it's 640MHz o/p from a (very) good 10MHz crystal osc. which is then doubled 6 times and filtered at the 40MHz and 160MHz stages with crystal filters. The problem with using so many multipliers is that the noise