[time-nuts] cheap 5V OCXO in 14DIP has about 1E-9 drift per day

[Greg Broburg]

Size and power look good so far.

Starting point for me is to run the little oscillators for a week and 
see how they muster up.

If that looks good then maybe a few parts from DigiKey to build the filters

Greg


On 4/7/2011 1:55 PM, Charles P. Steinmetz wrote:
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>> I wonder if "conjugate regenerative divider" qualifies as an
>> inexpensive converter
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> As we used to say in racing, "Speed costs money.  How fast do you want 
> to go?"
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> CRDs are not particularly expensive, especially when you consider the 
> performance and what it would take to achieve that performance with 
> other solutions -- assuming you need/want that performance (and what 
> kind of time nut would you be if you didn't?).
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> However, I'm not convinced that a cheap (or even free) 26 MHz 
> oscillator plus a downconverter will be less expensive for a given 
> level of performance than just buying a decent 10 MHz OCXO in the 
> first place -- I've bought quite a few very nice ones on-line in the 
> $20-50 range.  Mark Sims has suggested some as well (check the list 
> archives).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Charles
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