[time-nuts] Rubidium stability

Jose Camara camaraq1 at quantacorp.com
Fri Jul 22 23:39:14 UTC 2011


Perrier:

	Can you clarify your results? What do you mean by 200 to 800ps above or below 10MHz?  Is that how much they gained or lost in a one second period (meaning 2 to 8E-10 error)? Or was it error in period measurement (hopefully not, 8E-3 error).

Jose 

-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On Behalf Of Perry Sandeen
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 3:49 PM
To: time-nuts at febo.com
Subject: [time-nuts] Rubidium stability


List,
Someone asked about surplus rubidium stability.

Here are my results.

I had five Lucent Rubidium’s.  Three were from RDR in centennial, CO and two were from the Huntsville hamfest.

Before measuring stability, I ran them for a week on the bench.

Using A Lucent GPS and a HP 5370B counter I found all of mine between 200 to 800 pico-seconds above or below 10 Mhz.

BTW one can still get the Lucent units (Rubidium and GPS) for $79 and shipping from RDR. I’m not knocking any other supplier but I feel that the Lucent units  have more space for hacking so one could discipline the rubidium first and then apply it to the crystal Osc for better phase noise if needed.

One pays their money and makes their choices.

Regards,

Perrier


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