[time-nuts] A couple of Tbolt questions

John Miles jmiles at pop.net
Thu Jul 23 15:39:53 UTC 2009


>
> >I opened the mute Tbolt up to check the solder connections on
> the DB9 and I
> >see it has version 2.2 firmware. How big a deal is it that it
> doesn't have
> >3.0? Also, it has the Trimble 37265 OCXO. I understand that
> there were good
> >and not so good OCXOs used in these. Is this one of the good ones?
> >_______________________________________________
>
> The Oscillator is the same as I have in the TAPR version.
> Underneath I found
> a label 'Phase Noise'. I guess this will be found on all OCXO of
> this version,
> perhaps indicating a lower phase noise then normal. So that OCXO
> should be fine!

Now that's interesting.  Maybe that's why these units are so much cleaner
than the old one I had.  Has anyone else removed the OCXO from a
TAPR-purchased unit and noticed one of those labels?

-- john, KE5FX





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