Re: [time-nuts] Racal Dana 9478 frequency distribution system with option 04B high stability oven (5x10^-10/day aging rate).

2018-11-08 Thread Bob Bownes
Video distribution amplifiers are a very good and inexpensive solution to this problem. Think I paid $5US for my 24 port one (which is actually 3x dual 1 in 4 out units). I converted one of them from 75 ohm to 50Ω and didn't bother doing the rest as it made no discernible difference for timing

Re: [time-nuts] Racal Dana 9478 frequency distribution system with option 04B high stability oven (5x10^-10/day aging rate).

2018-11-08 Thread George Atkinson via time-nuts
The 9478 is an excellent unit but slightly unconventional. It does not discipline the internal OXCO to the external standard when present. It has a 10MHz PLL VFO tat is locked to either the internal OCXO or external refernce depeding what is available. If the external reference is present te

Re: [time-nuts] Racal Dana 9478 frequency distribution system with option 04B high stability oven (5x10^-10/day aging rate).

2018-11-04 Thread Heinz Breuer
It seems to be a very good price. There is a Racal Dana 9480 fully equipped with 40 outputs listed on eBay Germany for EUR 795. Nice to have but I don't need 40 outputs. vy 73 Heinz DH2FA, KM5VT Von meinem iPhone gesendet > Am 04.11.2018 um 15:05 schrieb Dr. David Kirkby > : > > On Sun, 4 Nov

Re: [time-nuts] Racal Dana 9478 frequency distribution system with option 04B high stability oven (5x10^-10/day aging rate).

2018-11-04 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On Sun, 4 Nov 2018, 11:51 David C. Partridge FWIW it is trivial to modify these video distribution amps for 50 ohm > output - you just need to change the output resistors form 75 ohm to 50 ohm > on the board after the op-amp. > > David > Three was a discussion about the particular video amplifier

Re: [time-nuts] Racal Dana 9478 frequency distribution system with option 04B high stability oven (5x10^-10/day aging rate).

2018-11-04 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi One would *guess* that the PLL bandwidth in the 9578 is wider than what you see in a typical GPSDO. As long as they don’t both line up at the same point, noise and phase peaking should not be a big deal. Depending on how clean your GPSDO is, the 9578 might clean things up a bit. For

Re: [time-nuts] Racal Dana 9478 frequency distribution system with option 04B high stability oven (5x10^-10/day aging rate).

2018-11-04 Thread Scott McGrath
...@lists.febo.com] On Behalf Of Dr. David Kirkby Sent: 04 November 2018 10:44 To: time-nuts@lists.febo.com Subject: [time-nuts] Racal Dana 9478 frequency distribution system with option 04B high stability oven (5x10^-10/day aging rate). I want a distribution amplifier to distribute 10 MHz from