[time-nuts] FTS 1050A What to do??

[paul swed]

Paul,
That is nice oscillator and as you noted semi-useless.
So with that in mind you could multiply by 6 and get to 36 Mhz.
Use that as a clock for a DDS to divide to something usable at 5 MC granted
some jitter but might be quite good.

Ok now that's really not exciting but then again. You were just scratching
your head and said something like the following fun project.
Suppose you divide that by 100. Hmmm anything familiar? And its only 3hz off
at that point. Seems like you might have quite a useful widget after all.
Its just math.

Regards
Paul
WB8TSL


On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Paul A. Cianciolo <paulc at snet.net> wrote:

> Hello Folks,
>
> In my collection of stuff, I found an FTS 1050a in good condition.
> It has been sitting for 5 years, and I decided to fire it up last night.
> It works.
> Opened it up and took a look inside.  The main reference is a large box
> which I assumed was filled with foam insulation.
> Everything is screw together, so I decided to take a look inside.
> A bunch of control electronics, all the normal foam, with the cylinder
> mounted in the middle of the foam.
> The cylinder slides out, and Lo and Behold..... The oscillator sits inside
> a
> little thermos bottle.
> A Dewar, I guess its called.  I should point out that I am new to this area
> of electronics and had never seen one of these before.
> There is a rubber blanket all around the oscillator so it fits snugly into
> the Dewar.
> I reassembled it all, with breaking anything and fired it back up again.
> All is fine.
>
> So what the heck am I droning on about??
>
> Well here is the deal; this is a special version of the 1050A made for
> cable
> television companies.
> The output is 6.0003  Mhz  that fed a comb generator creating harmonics
> that
> were the local oscillator reference for each ascending cable TV channel.
> So as nice as this thing is and I would like to use it..... What do you do
> with a 6.0003 Mhz  frequency Standard.
> Its not going to tune to 5. 00000 Mhz and its doubtful that the oven can be
> modified without great expense.
> Dividing the 6.0003 Mhz doesn't seem feasible.
> Any suggestions?
>
> It very nice to look at maybe I will put it in the rack for aesthetics
> alone?
> Bummed
>
>
> Paul A. Cianciolo
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