On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 10:58:02AM -0600, Jason Rabel wrote: > Just a heads up, if you search eBay for 'Lucent RFTG' you will see someone > has listed a bunch of the rubidium units today with BIN of $130. These are > not the previously listed RFG's. The RFTG have the built-in GPS receiver (I > think it's a Motorola UT+ or VP), the RFG's do not have the GPS. There's a > pinout somewhere in the archives here, it uses +24V I think through some of > the pins on the DB9 ports.
I think you just steered me down a blind alley... I grabbed the last two of these at the newer higher price of $185 BIN but more careful searching shows photos of a box without any evident GPS antenna input. I think the part with the GPS is the RFTG-M-XO which contains a disciplined OXCO with optional rubidium input from the RFTG-M-RB box. I suppose there must be a EFC voltage input or, much more useful, a 1 PPS input that syncs the Rb. But they appear to be a pair. I suppose that isn't too bad a price for a Rb oscillator if they have reasonably low hours and are the long lived telco kind... And a Rb oscillator with a PLL that expects a 1 PPS might be quite useful at that price. -- Dave Emery N1PRE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass 02493 "An empty zombie mind with a forlorn barely readable weatherbeaten 'For Rent' sign still vainly flapping outside on the weed encrusted pole - in celebration of what could have been, but wasn't and is not to be now either." _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts