[Elecraft] KTCXO3-1

[Brett Howard]

You can input the information via the K3 utility.   It is then stored in the
radio...

~Brett

On Jun 17, 2010 1:16 PM, "David Ferrington, M0XDF" <M0XDF at alphadene.co.uk>
wrote:
> I would like to be able to calibrate it according the manual and Method 3
> 73 de M0XDF
> --
> Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are
> putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
> -Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)
>
> On 17 Jun 2010, at 19:37, Brett Howard wrote:
>
>> So you bought the TCXO because you wanted to be able to say that it
>> was further temperature compensated by firmware? Because what was
>> promised was that it would get to 0.5PPM via additional firmware
>> correction. Well it turns out that the oscillators already do that
>> out of the box. Thus implementing even further enhancement got moved
>> very low on the list because people were already receiving that which
>> they were promised.
>>
>> At the moment there are MANY things that the P3 will be able to do
>> that are yet to be promised. You can easily tell by looking at the
>> back of one at a hamfest. There is a VGA connector port, a USB
>> Keyboard port, and a port to accept a W2 sensor... Think of all the
>> possibilities that can come from this.
>>
>> Not to mention.. Think of all the features that have come to the K3
>> that weren't promised! I'd hope that you purchased the TCXO so that
>> you could have 0.5PPM rather than 5PPM accuracy on your reference You
>> can be comforted if that is the case as you are actually getting
>> exactly what you paid for.
>>
>> ~Brett (N7MG)
>