[time-nuts] Oscillator frequency?

Azelio Boriani azelio.boriani at screen.it
Wed Oct 3 15:15:28 UTC 2012


Yes, it would be interesting to run such a GPS receiver: maybe there are
numbers of points to follow the signal processing.

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 3:12 PM, paul swed <paulswedb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Boy have to say no clue and not a very useful frequency. Would it make a
> nice bookend?
> Paper weight. Glue a watch to it and you have at least time. ;-)
> Regards
> Paul
> WB8TSL
>
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 9:07 AM, ken johnson <bats059 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi, I have a tcxo that I recovered from a very old, suitcase-sized gps
> > receiver some years ago. The oscillator is marked "ERC
> > Eros-750-MA110", with an output frequency of 5.119155MHz. I have tried
> > to think of a use for for it but failed. I played with the numbers but
> > could not find anything useful, so I thought I would try the
> > collective wisdom of the list to see if anyone could come up with a
> > use for such an oddball frequency.
> >
> > As an aside, it was fascinating to see a gps in discrete components,
> > lots of mixers (I recovered no less than 10, MCL ASK1 mixers and there
> > are still several left on the boards) on something like 7 or 8 , 200mm
> > square, gold-plated plug-in boards on a very nice card frame with
> > many, many interconnecting small-diameter coaxes with gold-plated
> > connectors.
> >
> > Pity I wasn't interested in time-nuttery at the time, it probably
> > worked before I reduced it to component parts!
> >
> > Thanks, Ken
> > www.vk7krj.com
> >
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