[time-nuts] Re: Looking for OCXO info - MTI 250-0709-B

[Adrian Godwin]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 5:42 PM Bob kb8tq via time-nuts <
time-nuts at lists.febo.com> wrote:

>
> MTI is hardly unique in not sending out OEM data sheets. Most outfits
> have similar rules. In some cases OEM’s go to pretty great lengths to
> assure that nobody can get the specs on the parts they use. The main
> idea is that it makes their end products harder to clone. Same thing that
> got them dropping schematics from manuals ….
>
>
A bizarre attitude. Surely someone going to the trouble of cloning an
instrument is going to see reverse-engineering the schematic as a pretty
minor job.

Slightly more reasonable to keep things secret when one of the components
is a quartz crystal with proprietary parameters and no public source.