[time-nuts] PTS synthesizers
EB4APL
eb4apl at cembreros.jazztel.es
Thu Feb 9 02:04:20 UTC 2012
You are right, the golden bricks were from the Mark III, we were
supposed to wear white cotton gloves to handle them.
This was a wonderful receiver, the one who put the man in the Moon and
tracked Pioneer X from Jupiter and beyond. I heard that Viterbi himself
was in the design team, probably leading the PLL stuff.
Good old days, even we were younger.
Regards,
Ignacio
On 09/02/2012 2:39, Jim Lux wrote:
> On 2/8/12 4:47 PM, EB4APL wrote:
>> Jim,
>>
>> I already have the info on the remote interface, taken from the PTS 160
>> doc and other sources, I was asking if he was talking about some
>> specific gadget.
>>
>> I also was using at those years some remotely controlled PTS's , did you
>> know the JPL MK IV receiver exciter? I think it was also a 040 but I'm
>> not sure, because these changed the phase smoothly but I think that
>> there is an option with a DDS to allow such thing.
>> Unfortunatelly those exciters are now dismantled and I think the doc was
>> dumped, anyway I'll have to make a phone call.
>>
>>
>
> Could be. We have tons and tons of 3325Bs and 3325As floating around,
> though. I haven't seen any PTS recently, however, a quick check of the
> asset database shows a fair number of them "owned" by Rabi Wang and
> William Diener. The latter has most of them.. Models PTS040SANIX-7,
> PTS250 and X10SAN10 for the most part.
> Both of those guys are in the Frequency and Timing Advanced Instrument
> Development Group.
>
>
>
> A couple years ago, we cleaned out some storage closets FULL of those
> gold plated brick shaped modules that made up the Mark III (at least
> that's what I was told).
>
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