Just picked it up, it has an internal rubidium which piqued my interest as worst case I could cannibalize the unit. It's also been sitting on a shelf for > 10 years so the oscillator should hopefully have some life left in it.
What does surprise me is the firmware is dated 25th August 1998, I was of the opinion these units weren't Y2K compliant and would have assumed an update in 1998 would have been tested... gps rollover not withstanding. Is there anyway to get the 10MHz output running off the rubidium without a satellite lock ? I can't seem to trigger it just yet. My plan is to use a DDS to generate a 1.Ghz LO and to feed this into a suitable mixer to down convert to the 75.42Mhz input signal for the gps reference as a start to see if I can get the thing working, allowing for the 1024 week offset of course. Just waiting on parts at the moment. Cheers J. -- -- Teach your kids Science, or somebody else will :/ [email protected] [email protected] <[email protected]> callsign: vk2vjb _______________________________________________ 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.
