[time-nuts] Re: Isolation amp transistors

2022-07-06 Thread Richard Karlquist via time-nuts
The 2N5179 has high base spreading resistance (decreases isolation). --- Rick Karlquist N6RK On 2022-07-06 12:18, ed breya via time-nuts wrote: > My favorite VHF Q is the good old 2N5179 or similar, but it appears you want > something in surface mount, and not obsolete. I'm not familiar with

[time-nuts] Re: thermodynamics of time keeping

2021-09-07 Thread Richard Karlquist
He lost me when he started talking about quartz clocks utilizing Schmidtt triggers. Never heard of that before and I'm going on 50 years of designing oscillators. --- Rick Karlquist N6RK On 2021-09-07 11:08, Mike Feher wrote: > I believe the macroscopic concept of entropy is applicable to

[time-nuts] Re: E5500 blues

2021-08-18 Thread Richard Karlquist
Before attempting to help you, it would be useful if you could give us more details as to what you are trying to accomplish with the E5500. The E5500 is primarily positioned as a RESIDUAL phase noise analyzer. The fact that you are talking about the PLL feature implies that you are not measuring