On 10/31/15 3:50 AM, Chris Wilson wrote:
31/10/2015 10:46
I have a Racal counter locked to 1 MHz on its rear panel external
input socket from my Trimble Thunderbolt GPS. I derive the 1 Mhz
from a David Partridge divider board. If I also feed the counter
with the 10 Mhz direct output from the same GPS it reads one or two
Hz out. As I assume the counter is working purely mathematically
why would that be please?
As an aside, I work low frequency RF transmissions on 136 Mhz, and
very narrow bandwidth. Can a soundcard be locked to GPS instead of
its own internal crystal for precise frequency output?
you could probably get a DDS of some sort to take the high quality 10MHz
and turn it into the clock frequency of your sound card. You'd need to
figure out how to pull the XO off the board and feed an appropriate
signal in.
There's a fair number of people interested in this, so I suspect someone
has already done it.
The other approach is to replace the XO on sound card with a VCXO, and
"discipline" it against the 1pps from the GPS. It's a matter of using a
different divisor than 10,000,000.
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