[time-nuts] Austron 2200A

[paul swed]

Absolutely have it working. Absolutely a considerable project. In a
nutshell I found another gps unit that was older and had lots of points to
access. Not a fully integrated IC. Then up converted its 35 Mhz IF with a
40 Mhz signal. All had to be driven from the austron 10 Mhz reference
signal. OK so all of that was done.
Next step is that since it has the multiple rollover issues you have figure
out the date to tell it. Quite an effort.
But its a very good unit for checking offsets. Though a pain to get there.
Regards
Paul

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Jason Ball <jason at ball.net> wrote:

> While I may be counting chickens, I'm likely to take delivery of an Austron
> 2200A in the next week.  Somewhat predictably the antenna isn't included
> and I've seen the extensive thread from this mailing list circa 2007 where
> the thread seemed to peter out at the end.  Worst case I could probably
> pillage the (working) rubidium oscillator that's inside it, ideally it
> would be nice to get the unit working as is.
>
> Did people end up getting their Austron's up and running ?
>
> At the moment I'm looking at options to make a down converter to deliver
> the 75.3Mhz required for the Austron and to power a timing antenna with 5v
> LNA that I have sitting on the shelf.   There are some 23cm amateur kits
> that would be adapted for the mixer unless there is a 'simpler' solution
> I've missed.
>
> Any suggestions ?
>
> Cheers
>
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