Re: [time-nuts] Chinese GPSDO 10 MHz error

2015-08-28 Thread Bob Camp
From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Attila >>>> Kinali >>>> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 4:51 PM >>>> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement >>>> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Chinese GPSDO 10 MHz error >>>&

Re: [time-nuts] Chinese GPSDO 10 MHz error

2015-08-27 Thread Bob Camp
Hi At the most basic level: FLL is frequency locked. Consider a lock system driven by an FM discriminator. (That’s how the idea originally was done.) The output of the detector is a voltage proportional to the frequency error. With a simple loop (gain only / no integrator) you have a static

Re: [time-nuts] Chinese GPSDO 10 MHz error

2015-08-27 Thread Bob Benward
[mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Attila >>> Kinali >>> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 4:51 PM >>> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement >>> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Chinese GPSDO 10 MHz error >>> >>> On T

Re: [time-nuts] Chinese GPSDO 10 MHz error

2015-08-27 Thread Azelio Boriani
Since I have not found a strong definition for the FLL, I assumed: if PLL= zero phase error (and so zero frequency error) the FLL= same frequency, random phase. The XOR with RC is a perfect fit for this: same frequency all the time but phase determined by the EFC needed to have that frequency. The

Re: [time-nuts] Chinese GPSDO 10 MHz error

2015-08-27 Thread Alex Pummer
it is a bit more complicated FLL need circuit which is sensitive to frequency difference, it looks always, PLL need a phase detector and has a capture range, which is depend mainly on the bandwidth of the loop filter there are combined phase /frequency detectors, which are sequential circuits

Re: [time-nuts] Chinese GPSDO 10 MHz error

2015-08-27 Thread Bob Camp
done. Bob > > Bob > >>>> -Original Message- >>>> From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Tim >>>> Shoppa >>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2015 5:18 PM >>>> To: Discussion of precise time and fr

Re: [time-nuts] Chinese GPSDO 10 MHz error

2015-08-27 Thread Attila Kinali
On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 17:19:34 +0200 Azelio Boriani wrote: > The simplest form of a frequency locked loop is the XOR gate, when the > driving signals are 50% square waves. To achieve lock, the phase > difference will be proportional to the voltage needed to the VCO to > generate the desired frequen

Re: [time-nuts] Chinese GPSDO 10 MHz error

2015-08-27 Thread Azelio Boriani
GHz? > > Bob > >>>> -Original Message- >>>> From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Tim >>>> Shoppa >>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2015 5:18 PM >>>> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurem

Re: [time-nuts] Chinese GPSDO 10 MHz error

2015-08-27 Thread Mike Feher
11:55 PM To: 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement' Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Chinese GPSDO 10 MHz error So how does a frequency lock work? How is it implemented? Can someone sketch a schematic? And what equipment or technique is used to measure a 2hz error at 10

Re: [time-nuts] Chinese GPSDO 10 MHz error

2015-08-27 Thread Tim Shoppa
;> -Original Message- > >>> From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Tim > >>> Shoppa > >>> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2015 5:18 PM > >>> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > >>> Sub

Re: [time-nuts] Chinese GPSDO 10 MHz error

2015-08-27 Thread Bob Benward
gt;>> Shoppa >>> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2015 5:18 PM >>> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement >>> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Chinese GPSDO 10 MHz error >>> >>> Full KE5FX evaluation of BG7TBL GPSDO here: >>> http:/

Re: [time-nuts] Chinese GPSDO 10 MHz error

2015-08-26 Thread Bob Camp
Hi Further investigation by list members in China came back with the information that this particular design is indeed a FLL. The error is considered “acceptable” by the designer. This is not the case on the various CDMA oriented GPSDO’s we typically play with in the US and Europe. All of thos

Re: [time-nuts] Chinese GPSDO 10 MHz error

2015-08-26 Thread Tim Shoppa
Full KE5FX evaluation of BG7TBL GPSDO here: http://www.ke5fx.com/gpscomp.htm I'm wondering out loud if it might, like many hobbyist GPSDO's, be frequency-locked rather than phase-locked and thus susceptible to last-digit-counter bobble in some long-averaging counter. Tim N3QE On Wed, Aug 26, 201

[time-nuts] Chinese GPSDO 10 MHz error

2015-08-26 Thread Perry Sandeen via time-nuts
Hi,   On the EEVBLOG  (http://www.eevblog.com/forum/index.php)   They mention that the "2014-11-06"version GPSDO that was “most extensively tested, so far (by ke5x and others).   (Has a) known bug, outputfrequency is not exactly 10mhz (9,999,999.999,800 Hz). This translates to ~2hzerror at