measurement time-nuts@febo.com
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] old freq standards
Since Symmetricom has recently purchased the entire line of frequency and
time
products from Agilent, Symmetricom has already announced that they will
discontinue support of most
At 12.59 15/10/2005, you wrote:
Symmetricom purchased (exactly) two products from Agilent: the
5071A cesium beam frequency standard and the 5087B distribution
amplifier. They have not announced discontinuation or
discontinuation of support of either of them.
As to the larger question of
Since Symmetricom has recently purchased the entire line of frequency and time
products from Agilent, Symmetricom has already announced that they will
discontinue support of most of them. They are notoriously unhelpful even for
current products they manufacture. Other old manufacurers have
There are still some of us out here that do repair the older HP cesiums
and rubidiums and have spare modules and parts for them. I wouldn't give
up on them completely yet. Tubes might get to be an issue but as of right
now, Symmetricom still sells a tube that will fit the 5061.
Chuck Norton
Since Symmetricom has recently purchased the entire line of frequency and
time
products from Agilent, Symmetricom has already announced that they will
discontinue support of most of them. They are notoriously unhelpful even
for
current products they manufacture. Other old manufacurers have
