[time-nuts] Why a 10MHz sinewave output?

Bob Camp lists at rtty.us
Tue Feb 7 01:16:32 UTC 2012


Hi

When the customers started asking in the 1930's, generating a square wave at high frequency was not so easy….

Bob


On Feb 6, 2012, at 7:20 PM, Magnus Danielson wrote:

> On 02/07/2012 01:02 AM, Jim Lux wrote:
>> On 2/6/12 7:41 AM, paul swed wrote:
>>> Jim
>>> I want to be careful this is not my thread.
>>> the question came up.
>>> Why sine wave.
>>> Though I do appreciate your comments.
>>> Regards
>>> 
>> 
>> I think it boils down to "it's easier to get high precision when you
>> only have one frequency to worry about"
> 
> Oh... nothing really beats "it's what customers traditionally asks for"
> 
> Squarewave out provides high slew-rate which reduces the effect of additional noise.
> 
> Cheers,
> Magnus
> 
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