Re: clock calibrator
"The world's largest phase detector" :) Cheers Tom -- Prof. Thomas H. Lee Allen Ctr., Rm. 205 350 Jane Stanford Way Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-4070 http://www-smirc.stanford.edu
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Tom Lee
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Re: clock calibrator
Another way I have heard about to align two 10 MHz oscillators it to use a VNA. Perform a 2-port calibration of the VNA, which must be fed from a GPSDO or similar. Set the VNA to measure S21, and feed
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Dr. David Kirkby, Kirkby Microwave Ltd
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Re: clock calibrator
Exactly right, Dan, and very well written, if I may say. An XOR is popular because it acts very much like an overdriven Gilbert-type/Jones cell. Both make excellent quadrature phase detectors. The
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Tom Lee
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Re: clock calibrator
Here is my take on XOR versus Inverter as a mixer. The XOR, with two digital inputs (for example divided down from RF signals) will act as a phase detector. The output will be zero when two, 50% duty,
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[email protected]
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Re: clock calibrator
Yes, indeed. Although, as Leo said, an XOR is a classical mixer, pretty much anything that's not strictly linear and time-invariant will perform mixing of some kind. And "some kind" is often good
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Tom Lee
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Re: clock calibrator
I'm no expert on the theory, but "intuitively" I think both XOR and AND works. I can say for certain that AND works... Pete
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saipan59 (Pete)
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Re: Simple Voltage and Current reference for meter testing.
If you can find a HP3245A - they can be had for about $1000 if you are lucky - you can can use it as a source for DC volts, DC current, AC volts and AC current (up to 1MHz). The main drawback is it's
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Keith Sabine <keith@...>
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Re: Simple Voltage and Current reference for meter testing.
I have personally never made anything like this - instead just comparing values to a 6.5 digit multimeter. But recently I bought a cheap(ish) 20,000 count Chinese multimeter, and wanted to check it.
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Dr. David Kirkby, Kirkby Microwave Ltd
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Re: clock calibrator
For at-a-glance monitoring of frequency/phase differences between my Rubidium, DOCXOs and GPSDOs at 10 MHz and 100 MHz I use AD8302 log amp/phase comparator chips to drive edge-reading centre-zero
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Neil Smith G4DBN
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New Member
Hello all As a check that it is really me, I always send E-Mails in this format. I am a new member, and have been a civilian Telecoms repair mech in the 50's and 60's and after that an Instrument mech
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Robert Beck
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Re: clock calibrator
Isn't classic mixer an XOR gate followed by an LPF? Leo
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Leo Bodnar
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Re: clock calibrator
Programmable. The 4 buttons on the front panel talk to the MCU, which allows setting the GPSDO freq. As I recall, it is settable from something like 1 KHz to 30 MHz. The little "square wave" on the
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saipan59 (Pete)
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Re: clock calibrator
Is the output of the GPSDO just 10 MHz like mine, or is it programmable? I recently wanted to adjust a 10 MHz OXCO? in a 40 GHz frequency counter. The approach I took was to set my highest frequency
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Dr. David Kirkby, Kirkby Microwave Ltd
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Simple Voltage and Current reference for meter testing.
Sometimes simple is all you need. Based on a cheaply available AD584 module with some mod's to capacitor values and the addition of an Opamp to counteract? the shunt voltage (burden) of the meter
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paulebookman
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Re: Welcome to [email protected]
Thank you. I have updated that welcome message. Unfortunately several hundred members have received the wrong message; I'll have to see if there's anything else that needs adjusting.
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Dr. David Kirkby, Kirkby Microwave Ltd
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Re: Welcome to [email protected]
Yes. It was the new member welcome message. You need to adjust it, and any other files of this nature left over from the old group. -- EJP
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EJP
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Re: Welcome to [email protected]
Yes, Monday PM. -- John Griessen -- building lab gear for biologists Albuquerque NM blog.kitmatic.com
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John Griessen <john@...>
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Re: Welcome to [email protected]
I got notified this morning on the old names. I was going to mentioned this tonight after I got back to the lab and a computer Though I do agree the 100 member limit from groups.io seems a bit dumb.
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Eric
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Re: Welcome to [email protected]
I got the technical-radio-UK one as a welcome, looking at my groups indicates the correct group. Haven't gotten about UK style radios (no longer a ham....) Harvey
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Harvey White
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Re: Welcome to [email protected]
I see the group up in 1999 as [email protected] ( [email protected] ) but never used it. I decided to repurpose it, so renamed it. Did you get an announcement under the old name
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Dr. David Kirkby, Kirkby Microwave Ltd
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