[time-nuts] Basic question regarding comparing two frequencies
Mark Spencer
mspencer12345 at yahoo.ca
Sat Jul 24 21:49:29 UTC 2010
Thanks, I'm glad to hear I am on the right track. At some point it would be
nice to obtain a counter that can measure the drift of the time base in the
5328A. The 5328A has a GPIB interface but as the display only varies by a few
counts I'm not inclined to track down a GPIB adapter just to plot this.)
Hopefully a newer counter would have a more generic interface.
Best regards
Mark Spencer
----- Original Message ----
From: J. L. Trantham <jltran at att.net>
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <time-nuts at febo.com>
Sent: Sat, July 24, 2010 1:49:51 PM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Basic question regarding comparing two frequencies
Sounds about right. One cycle per 5 seconds or about 0.2 Hz difference.
Therefore, 9,999,999.8 Hz.
I would feed the GPSDO to trigger your scope and look at the output of the
time base on one channel of the scope. You could also look at the GPSDO on
the other channel. Then you could adjust your counter time base to 'freeze'
the display. Probably good to 'align' the counter time base but for long
term comparison, probably better to use a counter and plot the difference.
Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of Mark Spencer
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 12:29 PM
To: time-nuts at febo.com
Subject: [time-nuts] Basic question regarding comparing two frequencies
Hello:
Just for grins I decided to compare the frquency from my GPSDO to the time
base
in my 5328A counter.
I connected the 10 mhz time base from the counter to channel A of my 100 Mhz
scope, fed the 10 mhz signal from my GPSDO into Channel B and with a T
adaptor
also fed this signal into the input of the counter. I scope to trigger
from
Channel B.
The drift betwen the two signals on the scope seems to match the error in
the
displayed frquency on the counter. (ie. if the counter shows 9999.9998 it
takes
approx 5 seconds for the the wave form on channel A to slip a full cycle
realitve to channel B.)
Is this a reasonable approach or is there a better way to compare two
frequencies using a scope ?
Best regards
Mark Spencer
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