[Test-Equipment] Quartz Oscillator Adventures

[John Miles]

I'm really impressed by the HP 10811 source in my 8662A.  I calibrated it
against GPS about a year ago, and it's still within 1*10E-9.  Less than 1 Hz
drift at 1 GHz over a year.  Never seen one do that before.

I was going to slave the 8662A to my Trimble Thunderbolt clock, but realized
there was no point when I saw how stable its own clock source was.

Of course, this unit runs on a computer UPS which is never, ever switched
off.

-- jm


----- Original Message -----
From: "Shaun Merrigan" <smerriga@compusmart.ab.ca>
To: <Test-Equipment@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 7:33 PM
Subject: [Test-Equipment] Quartz Oscillator Adventures


> I've been having a great time over the last month or so
> learning about the characteristics of precision quartz standards
> (HP-105B, Manson RD-180A, Austron 2010B) and frequency metrology
> in general.
>