[time-nuts] FE-30 OCXO

Rex rexa at sonic.net
Sat Dec 5 03:15:46 UTC 2009


Joseph Gray wrote:
> I find it curious that I don't find any info or
> history on this type of OCXO, being it is made by FEI. You'd think
> their web site would have some history.
>   

I don't have any direct knowledge or access, but in my opinion...

I think a large portion of FEI's business has always been government or 
other private contracts. Your experience of finding little useful 
information on an FEI product matches mine. I have a 5 MHz source made 
for the US Navy. I had zero luck attempting to get any information or 
response directly from FEI. Eventually I was able to find some links 
that gave me a military specification number that seemed related and 
found declassified specification documents that gave me most of what I 
was looking for.

I also have an FEI rubidium source from the communications industry 
(cell phone site equipment). The FEI pages document these with 
specifications, but it seems they made many flavors with many custom 
options. In my case, the rubidium I obtained had many differences from 
the common forms that were documented online.

So unless you can, in some way, stumble on what this OCXO was used for, 
and you get lucky, your difficulty in finding information seems quite 
normal to me.

 


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