[time-nuts] FTS 1050A What to do??

[Bruce Griffiths]

Paul A. Cianciolo wrote:
> Hello Folks,
>
> In my collection of stuff, I found an FTS 1050a in good condition.
> It has been sitting for 5 years, and I decided to fire it up last night.
> It works.
> Opened it up and took a look inside.  The main reference is a large box
> which I assumed was filled with foam insulation.
> Everything is screw together, so I decided to take a look inside.
> A bunch of control electronics, all the normal foam, with the cylinder
> mounted in the middle of the foam.
> The cylinder slides out, and Lo and Behold..... The oscillator sits inside a
> little thermos bottle.
> A Dewar, I guess its called.  I should point out that I am new to this area
> of electronics and had never seen one of these before.
> There is a rubber blanket all around the oscillator so it fits snugly into
> the Dewar.
> I reassembled it all, with breaking anything and fired it back up again.
> All is fine.
>
> So what the heck am I droning on about??
>
> Well here is the deal; this is a special version of the 1050A made for cable
> television companies.
> The output is 6.0003  Mhz  that fed a comb generator creating harmonics that
> were the local oscillator reference for each ascending cable TV channel.
> So as nice as this thing is and I would like to use it..... What do you do
> with a 6.0003 Mhz  frequency Standard.
> Its not going to tune to 5. 00000 Mhz and its doubtful that the oven can be
> modified without great expense.
> Dividing the 6.0003 Mhz doesn't seem feasible.
> Any suggestions?
>
> It very nice to look at maybe I will put it in the rack for aesthetics
> alone?
> Bummed
>
>
> Paul A. Cianciolo
> W1VLF
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To produce a low phase noise 5MHz + 250Hz offset signal for either a 
DMTD or a DDMTD use a conjugate regenerative divide by 6 to produce both 
1MHz + 50Hz and 5MHz + 250Hz outputs,
A pair of mixers a pair of low gain amplifiers and a pair of low Q 
bandpass filters are all that's required.

Bruce