[time-nuts] PTS synthesizers

[Jim Lux]

On 2/8/12 4:47 PM, EB4APL wrote:
> Jim,
>
> I already have the info on the remote interface, taken from the PTS 160
> doc and other sources, I was asking if he was talking about some
> specific gadget.
>
> I also was using at those years some remotely controlled PTS's , did you
> know the JPL MK IV receiver exciter? I think it was also a 040 but I'm
> not sure, because these changed the phase smoothly but I think that
> there is an option with a DDS to allow such thing.
> Unfortunatelly those exciters are now dismantled and I think the doc was
> dumped, anyway I'll have to make a phone call.
>
>

Could be.  We have tons and tons of 3325Bs and 3325As floating around, 
though. I haven't seen any PTS recently, however, a quick check of the 
asset database shows a fair number of them "owned" by Rabi Wang and 
William Diener. The latter has most of them.. Models PTS040SANIX-7, 
PTS250 and X10SAN10 for the most part.
Both of those guys are in the Frequency and Timing Advanced Instrument 
Development Group.



A couple years ago, we cleaned out some storage closets FULL of those 
gold plated brick shaped modules that made up the Mark III (at least 
that's what I was told).