[time-nuts] FEI 5680A

[Jean-Christophe Deschamps]

Dear group,

I'm a newbie here, so please bear with me.

I'm about to buy a FEI 5680A Rubidium frequency standard off 
ebay.  From what I've gathered, these units were used in the telco 
industry for about 10 years, but are still useable for my needs.  I 
wish to have a reasonably good frequency standard for calibrating test 
equipment (scope calibrators, function generators, etc), say every 6 
months or once a year.  For such use I really don't need extreme 
stability/accuracy.  Only hope is that the physics part isn't 
completely dead.

These units typically only produce a 1pps signal, but have the capacity 
to produce the classical 10 MHz sine wave.

I've found a number of documents explaining how to have the 10 MHz 
produced by these versions.  Two of them give consistent informations 
and seem to be sufficiently documented to be of real value.

Drop me a mail at jcd at q-e-d.org if you feel posting the files could 
help someone.  I don't know how to post files so that readers of this 
list can access them. Anyway, I'll postpone distributing the files at 
large until I check by myself their contents is useful.

Feedback welcome!

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