Oops. Must remember to engage brain. It's not phase locked. It's counter locked.
Sorry, -John ============== > Bill, > > Believe it or not, the HP 8640B is one of the cleanest, as far as signal > goes, that you can get, and you can get an option that will take it to 1 > GHz, if I remember. You can pick these up pretty cheap, but they have a > problem with some plastic gears going out on the tuning assembly. These > are > old too, but you can find junkers for parts. > > From a report I read on signal purity once, the next best for these > oldies, > was a Boonton 102, which outperformed a lot of modern generators > concerning > purity. However, it won't go to 1 GHz, I don't think, and I don't think > there's an option for it. > > If you're not too worried about extra clean signal purity, there are > several others, including ones made by Fluke, and or Wavetek. Don't get me > wrong, these not are cheap junk, it's just they didn't show as clean an > output as the HP and Boonton above. Without knowing any other features you > want, it's hard to tell you anymore than these recommendations. > > I forget where I read the test done on several of these RF generators, but > it's on a website, and others on here may know of the tests I'm speaking > of. Also, on the HP 8640B, one could get those plastic gears recut in > brass, if they did break, and they would last forever. > > Best, > > Will > > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > > On 7/12/2011 at 7:41 PM Bill Dailey wrote: > >>Looking for recommendations for a broadband synthesizer with external > reference connection, at least 1mhz to 1ghz with micro to millihertz > resolution. Oh yeah under $1000 or so. I found a real nice one from > holzworth but it is about $5k which is a bit rich for me. I have seen. > Various hp synthesizer but digging through the specs and the number soup > is > tough for a non-electronics guy. >> >>Tia, >> >>Doc >> >>Sent from my iPhone >>_______________________________________________ >>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. >> >>__________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus > signature database 5851 (20110206) __________ >> >>The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. >> >>http://www.eset.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
