[R-390] Rubidium Oscillator Questions

[Shoppa, Tim]

> From photos on the web, it appears that the 5381A has an external
> timebase input.  If that input is compatible with one of your
> high-stability oscillators, you could just plug them together and the
> 5381A's timebase error should then be that of the external
> standard.  If it isn't directly compatible, you could always build an adapter.

That's a great idea but I find that my 5381A is always better than to a
fraction of a ppm whenever I check it. There's "perfect" and then there's
"better than good enough" and I feel little compulsion to use a part per
billion type reference to check a 50 year old radio which can be serviced
just fine without a counter at all :-).

I will admit that a counter is very very handy.

Tim N3QE