Hello all, I am new to the world of time-nuts. I am therefore new to the world of precision timing/oscillators and the likes. I am learning as I go. One project that I am keenly interested in for use in my lab, is a 10MHz GPSDO. Obviously this will be useful to me as a starting project as I delve into this hobby. It shall also serve useful as reference for my freq. counters or any other equipment that needs an accurate timebase. I imagine it will also provide a good reference signal for use in various HAM radio related projects.
I recently acquired an HP5345a counter with the 4ghz plugin and it appears to also have Opts. 11 and 12. It appears to have 3 GPIB connectors on the rear panel. I was wondering what kinds of cool things I can do with it; specifically could I characterize a GPSDO that I am building? Is there software that exists, perhaps John Miles' freeware GPIB programs that work with a Prologix interface, etc? My concern is that I dont have a cesium reference to feed into the counter. Therefore I do not have a source that is at least an order of magnitude more stable. So what, if anything could I do? Any ideas? Any suggestions for this project? I intend to build something quite similar to: http://www.jrmiller.demon.co.uk/projects/ministd/frqstd0.htm I have 2 Jupiter GPS units in my possesion already and the next step is to acquire a good OCXO somewhere (eBay from China most likely). I thank everyone in advance for any suggestions. Sincerely, John Foege KB1FSX _______________________________________________ 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.
