So let's have a look into the machine... and what do we see? There's a nice little Symmetrcom oven, with the sign reading "5.000 MHz" - bingo!

May be there's a time saving way to determine the energie of the sub harmonic: using my spectrum analyzer. It tells me, that there's a 5 MHz subharmonic at the level of -62dBc.

How would you have calculated the energy? What would be your ansatz?

Thanks so far

Volker


Am 17.11.2012 17:55, schrieb Bob Camp:
Hi

That's what you get if you have "sub harmonic" energy in the output of your 
OCXO. I'd bet you a warm glass of beer that you have a 5 MHz / doubled to 10 MHz MTI OCXO 
in your Z3805.  If you have a lot of time on your hands, you can calculate the likely 
level of the energy from the amount of jitter (spacing between the two peaks) you get.

Bob

On Nov 17, 2012, at 11:41 AM, Volker Esper<ail...@t-online.de>  wrote:

Hi,

while playing with my recently aquired TIC (SR620) and measuring the period 
time of some oscillators I discovered something I hadn't expect at all:

The output of my GPSDO (Z3805) writes two maxima in the period histogram (at a 
spacing of 60ps).

I didn't believe that result and assumed an inherent error in my measuring 
setup or the counter itself.

So I plugged another oscillator, the reference TCXO of my signal generator (R&S 
SMX), and that result made me happy and uneasy at once: The TCXO hat only one 
maximum.

I havn't calculated the ADEV curve, yet.

See pictures.

Why does my GPSDO produce such a weird result?

Cheers

Volker - DF9PL
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