So I posted in the other thread, but forgot to post here that I obtained one of the BG7TBL 2015-07-17 "Trimble" units. This is basically a board NOT designed by BG7TBL, grafted onto a board of his design that provides connectivity to front-panel LEDs, DB9 RS-232 connector, power and RF connectors. My unit is all sealed up in an aluminum box, although I am a bit concerned about it overheating and may pull it out (the box doesn't feel hot at all, so maybe OK). It came with a puck antenna and power supply. Notably the antenna is labelled 3.3V, but the "documentation" that came with this unit clearly says it uses 5V antennas.
If the antenna is placed outside (my "lab" is apparently a GPS dead zone - only the most sensitive of GPS chips will lock up indoors there), it locks up within just a few minutes. The box puts out a very nice and clean sine wave. I don't have the ability to measure phase noise on it, so can't comment about how clean it is. If I hook it up to my scope, and trigger on the signal from the Lucent, I can see a very consistent and repeatable drift in phase between the two references of about 27ns. I need a third unit of some type to see what is responsible for this phase drift.
I will have to fashion an adapter cable to hook up RS-232 and see what can be done with that. The software that came with the unit will not run on my machine; it just errors out looking for some ancient VB6 OCX component (MSCOMM32.OCX).
Pros- Reasonably priced
- Nice 10MHz sine wave output
- Quick GPS lock-up
Cons- No usable software
- Effectively no documentation