[time-nuts] Good clean-up oscillators

[Richard (Rick) Karlquist]

On 1/23/2019 7:59 PM, jimlux wrote:

> My idea was to get an OCXO without the oven (or with the oven disabled) 
> - the idea was that an OCXO will have high Q for good phase noise, and I 
> can deal with the frequency shift due to frequency and aging in the long 
> term in other ways
> 
> As it happens, it's hard to do in practice (it makes your unit more 
> "custom") because OCXO mfrs don't conveniently bring out oven and 
> oscillator power separately.
> 
> So it's probably not available as a standard item, but you could 
> probably get an SC cut crystal and put it in your own circuit.
> 

The 10811 brings out oven and oscillator power separately.  However,
if you don't power up the oven, the crystal will be way off frequency
so your idea is a non-starter.

Rick