[time-nuts] Re: Can the ADEV of a GPSDO output ever be lower than the minimum of the ADEV of the internal oscilator and the ADEV of the GPS PPS?

Bob kb8tq kb8tq at n1k.org
Tue May 10 13:41:18 UTC 2022


HI 

> On May 10, 2022, at 5:42 AM, Attila Kinali <attila at kinali.ch> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 10 May 2022 12:49:27 +0200
> Erik Kaashoek <erik at kaashoek.com> wrote:
> 
>> Error bars like this?
> 
> Exactly...
> 
> And what you see is, that beyond ~300s the difference is not statistically
> significant anymore and beyond 700s the curves are indistinguishable.
> 
> I'm a bit surprised that a TCXO (with control loop) is good enough for 100s.
> Even if the difference to the PPS is only a factor of 1.6. 
> That's a quite decent oscillator.

or it’s in a *very* unusual temperature environment ….

Bob

> 
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