[time-nuts] is there a cheap and simple way to measure OCXOs?

[shalimr9 at gmail.com]

If you can offset one enough to have the output from the dbm in the audio band, you could use a sound card based spectrum analyzer to evaluate phase noise. Some sound cards may work down to 10 Hz, but their performance there is usually not specified. Bruce Griffiths has information on some high performance audio cards and maybe he can chime here.

Using the 3 corner hat method, you could identify the relative phase noise performance of three oscillators.

It will not help with longer term variations though.

Didier KO4BB

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From: Attila Kinali <attila at kinali.ch>
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On Wed, 30 May 2012 07:18:12 -0700
Jim Lux <jimlux at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Got a mixer around, so you can beat them against each other (or against 
> your 5680)?

Not yet. I'm currently thinking about geting an mixer from minicircuits
for the ZX05-1L[1] and a low pass filter BLP-1.9[2].

But what then? The frequency offset is low enough that it is still
problematic to measure with standard measurements instruments.
And the phase noise.. out of question.

			Attila Kinali



[1] http://217.34.103.131/pdfs/ZX05-1L+.pdf
[2] http://217.34.103.131/pdfs/BLP-1.9+.pdf
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