Hi, I certainly agree with you Bill E. I worked for this company from 1990 till 2015 designing analog phase lock loops and digital frequency locked loops using an OCXO, among other things. A major problem was that too big steps were taken in system design without any understanding for production difficulties or for reasonable customer requirements and needs. There was never any forum for the critical discussions. Just two examples, expecting a physically very small OCXO oscillator to be spot on in five minutes is ridiculous. The customer does not need to be up and running in five minutes, instead 20 to 25 minutes is good enough and you can settle with an older well proven design. Another problem never understood by production is that a complex OCXO design does not survive automatic soldering even though you might get that impression reading the specification. And when the next project begins the newly acquired costly experience is lost and has to be reinvented.
G?ran
G?ran Krusell