On a budget get a thunderbolt... If you want plug and play get a Jackson labs Fury. I have my fury hooked up to small Ubuntu box and have a nice ntp server as well as a great reference. Also, read, read, and read some more.
Doc KX0O Sent from my iPad On Aug 17, 2012, at 8:12 PM, Frank Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > New guy here, seeking Oracular pronouncements for my time/frequency quest! > > I recently acquired an HP 3336B, and subsequently converted it to a "C" model, > as all the HAM and related equipment here is 50 ohms. > > The 3336 has "Option 004: High stability frequency reference". > Operates at about 6Mhz.... > > I am trying to decide whether to fix the 3336 ocxo, or just use the other > working > ocxo in the Agilent E8285A Spectrum Analyzer. > OR > It would really be fun to provision some type of Primary Reference and > accurate 10Mhz source, and distribute the signal. > > I found a bunch of them on ebay, but they are almost all in China....what is > going on here? > > Anyone ever had a good buying experience for this type of equipent from > China? > > While decending through this particular worm-hole, I realized that it would > be great to have > my own NTP server via GPS too. > Found a bunch of GPS receivers w/ Ethernet and NTP server features, but none > w/ ocxo, only vcxo and tcxo. > Possibly it does not matter if the reference is the Stratum-1 GPS? > Not sure what I am looking at here (obviously) > > I only know a little about these topics, as where I work we have an > Agilent_5071A, paired with a > Symmetricom GPS PRS system. > But as we have moved out of the old TDM and ATM technologies, we no longer > need a Stratum-1 source, > (and the 5071A has used up all it's Cesium anyway). But it was fun and I > learned many things. > > > So what I am trying to come up with now for home/shack is: > - An NTP server for our LAN > - A very high quality 10Mhz source to distribute to all the HP and Agilent > equipment here. > > I have read enough forums to become dizzy, and would be glad to buy an HP > Z3815A, or > an HP Z3816A or an HP Z3801A or... > I even found an HP 55300A, but w/o the shelf it is useless, > (100 edge connector pinouts to decipher and wire manually???) > > Advice much appreciated! > 73 > Frank > KJ4OLL > _______________________________________________ > 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.
