[time-nuts] Not so cheap GPSDO's

2016-02-11 Thread Joseph Gray
Moving upscale to more well known models that cost quite a bit more, I see several Z3805A units. It looks like more than one type of OCXO was used in these. Which variant would you recommend? The less expensive Z3805A's look like they have been beat to crap, before or after being pulled from the

Re: [time-nuts] Not so cheap GPSDO's

2016-02-11 Thread Azelio Boriani
The Z3815A has the famous hockey puck OCXO designed by Rick Karlquist. I have one Z3815A from the seller you mention: it works but, inside, there was heavy rust on the Furuno GPS receiver case. The old Furuno receiver in the Z3815A has the GPS week rollover bug as all the surplus Z-series HP

Re: [time-nuts] Not so cheap GPSDO's

2016-02-11 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 11 Feb 2016 08:05, "Joseph Gray" wrote: > The less expensive Z3805A's look like they have been beat to crap, > before or after being pulled from the scrap pile. I'd worry about > damage to the OCXO in these. For more money, yixunhk has some nicely > packaged units and AFAIK