Re: [time-nuts] What was 50.791095 MHz used for?

2013-05-29 Thread Pete Lancashire
When you find out add it to the list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_oscillator_frequencies On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 8:58 PM, ed breya e...@telight.com wrote: Does anyone know what 50.791095 MHz was used for? I assume it was some sort of telecom clocking rate - perhaps obsolete. I

Re: [time-nuts] What was 50.791095 MHz used for?

2013-05-29 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 08:58:19PM -0700, ed breya wrote: Does anyone know what 50.791095 MHz was used for? No idea, but playing around with the number resulted in: 50.791095 * 20 / 9 = 1128691 which is a prime :) best, Herbert I assume it was some sort of telecom clocking rate

[time-nuts] What was 50.791095 MHz used for?

2013-05-28 Thread ed breya
Does anyone know what 50.791095 MHz was used for? I assume it was some sort of telecom clocking rate - perhaps obsolete. I serendipitously discovered that I have some VCXO modules of this frequency, that will likely solve a problem on one of my projects. I'm now curious about what they may