Many thanks for your reply, John. An eBay search reveals no Lucent boxes. Trimble shows up with a Buy It Now (how can I resist) for a device with 10 MHz and 1 PPS outputs and V 3 firmware for $120 (plus shipping and passing it from hand to hand).
What is not revealed in this offering? Bill Hawkins (Yes, I do understand how more interesting things come along.) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Ackermann N8UR Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 8:38 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Chooses for a desktop/server NTPexternal 1PPSreference Even though I finally got the actual ribbon cable used to interconnect the -XO and -RB boxes, I was never able to get mine to actually act as though it was disciplined. I suspect that either the XO or the Rb free-run frequency was far enough off that it never locked up, but I ran out of time (or rather, other more interesting things came along) and I haven't checked that theory out. John ---- Bill Hawkins said the following on 12/08/2009 08:38 PM: > Friends, > > Whatever happened to those Lucent RFTD-m- XO and RB boxes? > > IIRC: > > 1. There were no manuals. > > 2. The output was 15 MHz (trivial to fix with a diagram). > > 3. The boxes had to be connected (ditto). > > I bought two pairs, but I'm still using the 3801A pair for a GPS time > reference because I don't have to do anything to make it work. Ah, well, > there was the summer project to repair the RG-8 connections to the cone > antennas. > > Were the Lucent boxes a flash in the pan? > > Bill Hawkins > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
