If your intent is to take full advantage of the long term as well as short term
stability of a reference oscillator, the best approach is a low pass filter
that will have small (and stable) phase shift at 10 MHz.
Most bandpass filters will have enough temperature sensitivity of the phase
shift through the filter to degrade the performance of an Rb. It may look fine
on the scope but would not give you good long term adev.
If you don't care about long term stability, you probably do not need an Rb in
the first place.
If you only need good long term frequency stability and phase (or absolute
time) is of no concern, then the type of filter (and whether there is a filter
or not) does not matter.
Didier KO4BB
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From: Chris Albertson <albertson.ch...@gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:54:09
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Subject: [time-nuts] filtering a 10Mhz frequency standard?
What is the best practice for filtering a 10Mhz sine wave frequency
standard? I've read that you can do more harm than good. Filter
parts (caps, resistors and so on) are all temperature sensitive. But
all those $40 Rb oscillators are putting out a pretty rough looking
sine wave.
Are some types of filters better. I thought about a crystal filters.
--
Chris Albertson
Redondo Beach, California
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