[time-nuts] FTS 1050A Service Manual

[Matthew D'Asaro]

I doubt that cloning has much to do with it. Any cloner worth their salt wouldn't have any problems reverse engineering a PCB. The real problem is that it is expensive to produce and maintain service documentation and there doesn't seem to be market demand in this throw away culture.

Matthew

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> On May 5, 2019, at 8:17 AM, Bob kb8tq <kb8tq at n1k.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Well, it this day and age of “clone anything” manufacturers, I doubt you ever will see
> schematics again. Most outfits stopped sending them out decades ago.  
> 
> Bob
> 
>> On May 4, 2019, at 10:26 PM, Tom Knox <actast at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I agree Bob, I have seen many different versions, I have even seen one with option BVA (In a 1000B form-factor) and versions with 10MHz external ref input. But any schematic or service manual would be a great staring point even if a different version.
>> 
>> 
>> Tom Knox
>> 
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>> ________________________________
>> From: time-nuts <time-nuts-bounces at lists.febo.com> on behalf of Bob kb8tq <kb8tq at n1k.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, May 4, 2019 5:00 PM
>> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
>> Cc: Jeff Kruth
>> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] FTS 1050A Service Manual
>> 
>> HI
>> 
>> I suspect that as long as the 1050 has been around …. there are mulitple versions of the schematics.
>> I doubt there ever *was* a service manual. It likely was a “factory repair only” sort of device.
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
>>> On May 4, 2019, at 5:53 PM, Jeff Kruth via time-nuts <time-nuts at lists.febo.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello!
>>> Does anyone know where I might find the service manual (schematics particularly) for the FTS 1050A Quartz Oscillator? PDF, printed, scratched on papyrus, etc.?
>>> N8UR sent me the operating manual, but I need a little more detail.MicroSemi owns the stuff now and I have not contacted them, you know how it goes with acquisitions.....Thanks!  Jeff Kruth
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