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Re: Quick and dirty GPSDO build by F2DC and me.
Erik, This looks very impressive. I¡¯ll order the qrplabs 25 MHz Tcxo and try your software when I¡¯m back from holiday!
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Sverre Holm
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#1687
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Re: Quick and dirty GPSDO build by F2DC and me.
Using the 10MHz output as external reference to a Siglent spectrum analyzer made it clear the frequency is stable enough to measure a 1GHz signal with 10Hz or better accuracy but the fractional spurs
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Erik Kaashoek
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#1686
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Re: Quick and dirty GPSDO build by F2DC and me.
A graph showing how the set frequency is corrected over time to keep the output at 10MHz The measurement was started 30 seconds after power on. After roughly 30 minutes the TCXO seems to become stable
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Erik Kaashoek
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#1685
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Re: Quick and dirty GPSDO build by F2DC and me.
Test seems to be OK. afreq is the frequency times 100 that is set to create the 10MHz GPS locked output. Stable enough to go to a 400 seconds period using a 1e+9 pulse count Delta's for the last 5 400
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Erik Kaashoek
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#1684
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Re: Quick and dirty GPSDO build by F2DC and me.
Github https://github.com/erikkaashoek/Arduino_SI5351_GPSDO -- HBTE Files section: /g/HBTE/files Erik, PD0EK
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Erik Kaashoek
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Re: Quick and dirty GPSDO build by F2DC and me.
Where in the files section? dave k2lyv
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David Birnbaum
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#1682
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Re: Quick and dirty GPSDO build by F2DC and me.
Sverre, thanks for the reference. After a lot of testing the culprit was indeed the Etherkit library. Using the very small routines from Marcus W3PM I made a version where the actual frequency after
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Erik Kaashoek
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#1681
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Re: Quick and dirty GPSDO build by F2DC and me.
One of the inspirations for the F2DC Gpsdo does not use the Etherkit library, as far as I recall. Maybe some ideas may be had from there? That is: G. Marcus W3PM,"An Arduino Controlled GPS Corrected
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Sverre Holm
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Re: Quick and dirty GPSDO build by F2DC and me.
While doing tests at 1GHz using the 5th harmonic of a 200MHz output of the Si5351 the used Etherkit SI5351 library appears to have a bug/limitation that limits the resolution of the frequency
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Erik Kaashoek
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#1679
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Re: Quick and dirty GPSDO build by F2DC and me.
Did some more experiments and decided the X-tal in the SI5351 is the limiting factor in stability so replaced it with a cheap 26MHz TCXO
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Erik Kaashoek
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Re: Honey, I Shrunk The Tester
Hello Dennis, not sure, if you are aware, that there is a very refined component tester using minimal hardware based also on the ATMEGA328. It is a design by Markus Frejek further developed by
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Joerg ex-DB2OO
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#1677
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File Notifications
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Dennis Zabawa <kg4rul@...> added folder */Honey I Shrunk The Component Tester - Build Description* --- The following files have been uploaded to the Files area of the [email protected] group. *
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#1676
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Re: Quick and dirty GPSDO build by F2DC and me.
To understand the impact of temperature fluctuations the simulation is extended to have? a perioding temperature change causing a 2 Hz temperature fluctuation over a 1.6 hour period. The feedback
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Erik Kaashoek
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Re: Quick and dirty GPSDO build by F2DC and me.
To better understand I did some simulations. Once the measurement time is above 10 seconds the 100ns PPS jitter is no longer relevant given the measurement time and measurement frequency. Drift is a
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Erik Kaashoek
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#1674
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Re: Quick and dirty GPSDO build by F2DC and me.
Very interesting discussion. The Lars Gpsdo is documented here: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/lars-diy-gpsdo-with-arduino-and-1ns-resolution-tic/ It is a phase-locked loop rather than a
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Sverre Holm
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#1673
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Re: Quick and dirty GPSDO build by F2DC and me.
My SI5351 never became stable enough to go beyond 400s (but I now understand this may be the PPS jitter) Yes. Minimum frequency compensation of the SI5351 is 0.01Hz -- HBTE Files section:
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Erik Kaashoek
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#1672
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Re: Quick and dirty GPSDO build by F2DC and me.
Alan, So once the 400S measurement period is reached and the variations are sufficiently low (say below 20) the control loop should change from jumping to a low pass filtered compensation in the hope
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Erik Kaashoek
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#1671
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Re: Quick and dirty GPSDO build by F2DC and me.
The jitter in the 1PPS signal depends on the GPS receiver, an older unit from 10 years back may have around 100nS jitter, a recent unit around 20-30nS. Receivers are of two kinds position finding ¨C
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Alan
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Honey, I Shrunk The Tester
SPARKFUN? ARDUINO COMPONENT TESTER RE-PACKAGED I recently came across an Arduino based, Component Tester project by SPARKFUN?. Arduino Component Tester ( https://www.sparkfun.com/news/3909 )
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Dennis Zabawa
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Re: Quick and dirty GPSDO build by F2DC and me.
Hi Erik A couple of questions: Is there a particular reason why you stopped at 400 s as the maximum measurement time? And second, is this how you compute the frequency error corresponding to a single
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Sverre Holm
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#1668
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