[time-nuts] is there a cheap and simple way to measure OCXOs?

[Attila Kinali]

On Wed, 30 May 2012 15:11:03 +0200
Attila Kinali <attila at kinali.ch> wrote:

 
> I recently bought some Oscilloquartz 8663 from ebay and am now wondering
> how to check whether they are working correctly or whether they are
> out of specs.
> 
> Unfortunately, although i have a reasonable park of measurement instruments,
> none of them are in the precision range that i'd need to characterize
> the 8663's.


thanks everyone for the answers! I did dig a little bit trough the avilable
devices (ie those that do not cost me an arm and a leg to buy) and came
to the conclusion that i have to reformulate my requirements.

I think, the most important thing for me at the moment is to verify that
i do not have any defect devices. Defect in the sense of something other
than "does not output any signal" (these are trivial to detect). 

And here i'm stuck again. What are likely defects of an OCXO? And how would
i detect them?


			Attila Kinali
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