On 27 November 2014 at 22:38, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) > <[email protected]> wrote:
> It was very easy to fit the 10811A oven (HP 10811-60111) and get the > oven working <snip> > With the old TCXO in the frequency counter, the indicated frequency of > the 10 GHz signal was about 48 kHz off, but it moved around a KHz or > so. In contrast, now the oven is installed, the reading is a *lot* > more stable, with it shifted about 15 Hz. This got me thinking. For anyone else owning a HP 5342A with a TCXO, it would be fairly trivial & very cheap to fit a low cost ($20 or so) OCXO on a bit of strip board and it should improve the performance for very little money. The strip board would just plug in the same socket as the HP TCXO or OCXO. A cheap unit would not have the performance of a 10811A, but the price would be a lot lower than a used 10811A. Dave. _______________________________________________ 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.
