[time-nuts] Frequency standard

[jimlux]

On 1/26/19 10:43 AM, Bob Albert via time-nuts wrote:
>   Dave, thanks for the info.  I am, as I have said, money limited to the point where most solutions won't work for me.
> My counter is an HP 5328A I belive.  Not the top of the line but with care it can do a decent job.  It's oscillator is the standard oven job.  When I got it, it was almost spot on but it's been a while and I'd like to reset or at least recheck it.  It's good enough that it can watch other oven oscillators drift, such as the one in my 8657B generator.  I mean, who is crazy enough to sit for hours watching a display progress more and more slowly toward some monte carlo frequency?
> Anyway it's all in fun for me and I have no real need for this precision.  And I know how close my transceiver must be to be 'on frequency' and it certainly is fine with no intervention

If your email name is your zipcode in North Hills, then you're a bit far 
away from JPL to pick up the omnipresent 10MHz (and harmonics) that's 
leaked/radiated everywhere on lab. For most of the leakage, it's 
probably based on either local Rb or GPSDO in the specific lab, or 
locked to the lab's maser distribution.  Generally fairly close to "dead 
on" ( a very narrow spectrum analysis from a whip antenna is fascinating..)

It's an idea..

If you have microwave receive capability, several of the amateur beacons 
in the Los Angeles area are now locked to a GPSDO - I don't know which 
ones off hand, but an email to someone in the SBMS (San Bernardino 
Microwave Society) would probably be useful.  For that matter, their 
monthly meetings often have someone there with a Rb source that you 
could use to calibrate, or arrange to meet up with.

There's also some microwave shootouts in the area where everyone goes to 
measure their noise figure and antenna gains, and I guarantee that at 
one of those, *someone* will have a high quality frequency standard.