I'm sorry, I messed up. I jumped on more advance topic than I intended. I'm
sure there were answers in the replies but they must have gone way over my head
because some of original questions still remain. I bulletized (is that a
word?) the original question with my NEW understanding. Would someone please
respond for me, point-to-point?
1) A frequency counter that measures DUT basically puts out a reading every
second during the measurement. When TimeLab is well into 1000s or so, it is
still reading every second; it does not change the gate time to say, 1000s. I
understand now, Adev is about phase, not the frequency. But assuming DUT is
sine wave, if there is enough phase change, frequency do change. I think of
phase change as frequency change that is less than full cycle. So how does
counters that outputs every 1 second end up in tau of 1000s? It will entirely
miss phase change that spans more than 1 cycle.
2) I recall reading on TICC manual, in time interval mode, anything that's
reasonably good is good enough, because it has time stamp and the count
reading. Clock is used to chunk the data. Is this still true? Through this
discussion, I ended up with conclusion that there is no inherent advantage over
TI measurement when compared to frequency measurement. Am I understanding this
correctly?
3) I understand even the BEST counter is only good for Adev nE-12 measurement.
Then, with my collection of counters, HP53132A (which averages tons of short
period measurement), 5335A (not enough resolution), HP5370A (interval reading
is no better than frequency), TICC by TAPR, Do I even have a chance of doing
any meaningful work? (say work with GPSDO and Rb which some of it does reach
E-13) Yes, I know now, it is NOT possible to do 1 sec Adev but say over 100
seconds? Right now, I don't have any standard that has adev that good at 1 sec
anyway.
4) Would one person who has infinite patience and experience guide me through
getting one reading done correctly with what I already have? That may include
email and phone call. (I speak English and Japanese) I don't want to lower
S/N of this mailing list by doing this here.
5) One time, it was mentioned many of Adev graphs posted are basically a graph
of instruments noise graph. How do I tell when a given reading/graph is
exceeding the limit of a setup? I did do base line where same signal goes to
counter's reference input and signal input. I always have that on my chart so
traces does not go below. Is that enough?
I appreciate everyone's input. I am learning a lot but just not digesting well
enough. I'd like to do DMTD after I understand the basics.
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(Mr.) Taka Kamiya
KB4EMF / ex JF2DKG
On Thursday, February 20, 2020, 1:41:06 PM EST, Taka Kamiya via time-nuts
<[email protected]> wrote:
I have a question concerning frequency standard and their Allen deviation.
(to measure Allen Dev in frequency mode using TimeLab)
It is commonly said that for shorter tau measurement, I'd need OCXO because
it's short tau jitter is superior to just about anything else. Also, it is
said that for longer tau measurement, I'd need something like Rb or Cs which
has superior stability over longer term.
Here's the question part. A frequency counter that measures DUT basically puts
out a reading every second during the measurement. When TimeLab is well into
1000s or so, it is still reading every second; it does not change the gate time
to say, 1000s.
That being the case, why this consensus of what time source to use for what tau?
I recall reading on TICC, in time interval mode, anything that's reasonably
good is good enough. I'm aware TI mode and Freq mode is entirely different,
but it is the same in fact that measurement is made for very short time span AT
A TIME.
I'm still trying to wrap my small head around this.
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(Mr.) Taka Kamiya
KB4EMF / ex JF2DKG
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