For those of you that have one of these... good-ish news. I have Lady Heather
working with them (well, at least the Trimble works, the Symmetricoms have not
arrived yet and there are a couple of known differences in their commands).
I'll get the code out there when I have a chance to test it with the
Symmetricoms. They seem to fairly nice little units. Not as tweakable /
versatile as a Z3801A, etc but quite usable.
For those that are thinking about buying one, be aware that there are some
pretty skeezy / clueless / dishonest sellers out there. People have received
units with various parts that have been physically damaged or ripped off the
boards. Apparently one or more of the Chinese scrappers was less than gentle
removing them from whatever it was that they came out of. EEVBLOG has a long
thread that mentions the Chinese Standard GPSDO Damage Infliction. A couple of
devices (an inductor, a couple of caps, and some connectors) seem to be the
most prone to be damaged... most damage was easily repaired. My Trimble came
from a seller with a high reported coefficient of skeezyness, but was in
perfect condition. Oh, and they run on 6V 2A startup, .8A warmed up.
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