[time-nuts] Surplus Guidelines, was: Rubidium Standard

Rob Kimberley time.bandit at btinternet.com
Mon Dec 11 08:30:11 UTC 2006


The RFG units were manufactured I believe by Frequency Electronics Inc
www.freqelec.com. You should be able to pull data from their web site on the
Rbs.

Rob Kimberley 

-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of Jason Rabel
Sent: 10 December 2006 22:19
To: 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement'
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Surplus Guidelines, was: Rubidium Standard

Thanks for all the info, at least now I won't be scratching my head as much
when looking at all the various assortments. ;)

Another thing I was just thinking of, has anyone had any experience with the
Lucent RFG/RFTG Rubidium (or Crystal) units? I occasionally see some RFTG
models which I believe has a GPS built in. But recently someone has been
selling a lot of RFG models (no GPS).

RFG-RB: 150069811211 - $125/$130 BIN
RFG-XO: 150067596617 - $30/$40 BIN

Originally the first run they sold of the Rb's they were going for $20 each!
I guess they wised up doing a little research and raised the price, but even
at $130 they are selling pretty steady.

>From what I read these are/were used in portable cellular stations, and the
XO was typically disciplined off the Rb. The info from the front panel they
gave me was as follows:

WP-92066L9  RFG-RB  PLUGS - INTFC, ALARM, +24V, 15MHZ OUT, 10 MHZ RF OUT,
TP.
WP-92066L10 RFG-XO  PLUGS - INTFC, ALARM, +24v, 15MHZ OUT, 10 MHZ IN.

I couldn't find any sort of info online about these, hopefully someone here
can enlighten us. :)



> >Second, since just about any of these type items on eBay are sold
'as-is',
> >what is a reasonable price for some of these things? Prices seem to 
> >vary with no rhyme or reason. I would like to get a Rubidium standard 
> >one day, but I honestly don't know what a fair price would be for 
> >some that I have seen.
> 
> If it works, a couple hundred dollars for a used FRS or FRK is 
> reasonable. I picked up a never-used FRS-N unit for $300 recently.
> There was a batch of them that sold with steadily decreasing prices 
> from $500 down to the $200 initial bid as the market (such as it is) 
> got saturated.
> 
> --
> 
> --David Forbes, Tucson, AZ
> http://www.cathodecorner.com/


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