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Mon Apr 27 04:27:16 UTC 2009
> Sound card drift over this four hour period is about 250 micro Hertz.
> The temp in the shack was going up during the measurement period.
> Unfortunately I did not track the exact temp rise, but was about
> around 4 to 6 degrees F.
250 micro Hz relative to 1000 Hz is 1/4 ppm.
My memory is that junk PC crystals are ballpark of 1 ppm/degree. (That's
probably per degree C rather than F, but that's only a factor of 2.)
So 1/4 ppm for 4 degrees is better than I would have guessed.
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