I may already know the answer to this, but I figured I would ask the time nuts anyway. I have an application where I would like to phase-lock two oscillators together, probably 10MHz OCXOs as they have particularly good Allen Deviation compared to what I would ultimately like to use, a 100MHz crystal oscillator locally PLL'd to the 10MHz oscillators. These oscillators will be separated by a distance of a few yards up to a few miles. The requirement is not that their phases align perfectly, as in the conventional locally-connected phase-locked loop sense, but rather that any phase difference between the two oscillators resulting from arrival times of GPS signals are held constant. Perhaps this shows my lack of understanding of GPS time, I don't know if travel time is accounted for in commercial GPS 1Hz outputs, it may well be corrected.
I suspect the result of a GPSDO is not the same as phase-locking two oscillators together. Perhaps it is frequency locking? Which, if the phase difference were held constant to within 0.1 degree, would be acceptable. Not sure this is the result either. Thanks for the info, - Lifespeed _______________________________________________ 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.
