I saw that on eBay, it is great to see a fellow Time Nut won it. I would think Phase Noise is excellent with the 8663, although I would prefer a version with discrete SMA's on the outputs. I look forward to your impressions after further evaluation. Thomas Knox
> From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 14:53:00 -0700 > Subject: [time-nuts] Oscilloquartz 4532 GPS receiver > > Just picked up an interesting piece of hardware on eBay that I hadn't > encountered before, an Oscilloquartz 4532 GPS receiver as described here: > > > > http://www.oscilloquartz.com/index.php?pageid=37 > > > > It was selling for about the same price that Thunderbolts from China have > been fetching, but it uses a nice OSA 8663 DOCXO with 1E-10/day holdover > specs. I powered it up with a standard Trimble patch antenna and it appears > to be serviceable. The all-important 1-pps LED started flashing green after > spending about 30 minutes in various red/green states. > > > > However, while the 10 MHz output is clean and reasonably stable (ADEV near > 4E-12 at t=1s), it's about 5 Hz too low. Possibly it's using a > grossly-incorrect stored position. It looks like the so-called "GUI-based > Configuration and Monitoring" software mentioned on the web page will be > needed to get the unit to lock properly. Is that available anywhere, freely > or otherwise? > > > > -- john, KE5FX > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
