[time-nuts] HP Z3801A Sale

Eric Lemmon wb6fly at verizon.net
Sat Mar 31 15:21:33 UTC 2012


Hal,

The beauty of the header strips is that the Z3801A can easily and quickly be
converted back to RS-422 in the future, without having to partially
dismantle the unit and do more soldering- again.

73, Eric Lemmon WB6FLY


-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of Hal Murray
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 11:12 PM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] HP Z3801A Sale


> There really is nothing much to this "modification."  The Z3801A is
already
> designed to easily work on either interface, but most units are configured
> for RS-422 as the default.  It takes perhaps a half-hour to remove some
> zero-ohm SMD resistors and solder in a few header strips.  The simple
procedure
> is described and illustrated here: <www.ad6a.com/Z3801A.html> 

You don't need the header strip.   There are empty slots waiting for some of

the 0-ohm jumpers you have to remove.

I think they are the three to the right of the circle in figure-13 of the 
above URL.  You can work out which is which by following the traces or using

an ohm-meter.

Here is another URL in case you want a second opinion:
  http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/Z3801AReceiverModifications


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