[time-nuts] Neat little cesium box

[Attila Kinali]

On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:25:52 -0600
"Gregory Muir" <engineering at mt.net> wrote:

> Am looking at a small cesium standard for a proposed client project:
> 
> http://synreference.com/frequency-references/cesium-reference/item/37-portable-battery-powered-reference.html

The datasheet of this "neat" little thingy sound very much like
they put a CSAC into a black box. Heck, they even took the wording
from the CSAC description:

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[...]Two orders of magnitude better accuracy than oven-controlled crystal
oscillators (OCXOs) -- and up to four orders of magnitude better accuracy than
temperature-controlled oscillators (TCXOs). An outstanding reference for field
applications when an OCXO is not sufficient without the complications of
a GPS based reference.
---

versus

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At two orders of magnitude better accuracy than oven-controlled crystal
oscillators (OCXOs) — and up to four orders of magnitude better accuracy than
temperature-controlled oscillators (TCXOs) — the CSAC’s unmatched portability
opens the door to new classes of applications, such as [...]
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If i were you, i would take Tom up on his offer to review your clients
requirements. He knows the stuff around all this mess we have with
frequency standards :)

			Attila Kinali 

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