Hi Building a kit is very different than a from scratch design. A Heathkit (to extend the years ago ham radio analogy) radio was an option when you shopped for your Drake. Building it would give you some experience.
The Heathkit *design* was done for you and all the complicated higher level stuff was worked out / tested out / reworked / retested by somebody else. As long as you put it together correctly, it worked and was a good radio. These days there aren’t a lot of folks selling kit GPSDO’s. Even the kit radio business isn’t what it once was. “I’m going to do a GPSDO” these days generally means a scratch design. Bob > On Feb 19, 2022, at 2:41 AM, Bill Beam <[email protected]> wrote: > > But there is a magazine article.... > <https://www.qsl.net/n9zia/wireless/QST_GPS.pdf> > By Brooks Shera, W5OJM. QST July, 1998. > > Following this article I built my unit in 1998 using his PCB and a Motorola > UT+. > It has been running almost continuously since then - almost 25 years. > It has been thru several HP 10811 and 10844 oscillators during that time. > > Even though Brooks is SK his GPSDO is still running. > > Regards. > Bill, NL7F > > On Fri, 18 Feb 2022 19:48:21 -0500, Bob kb8tq wrote: > > >> On a GPSDO, there are no books. There are no magazine articles. The folks >> who >> design GPSDOGs donGt talk about whatGs inside. ItGs not so much the >> individuals, >> itGs how the companies operate. IP matters and it matters a lot. Practical >> stuff gets >> buried as a result. You are off on a Ginvent it from scratchG expedition >> (more or less). > > > > Bill Beam > NL7F > > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] -- To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to and follow the instructions there.
