FA-2 arrived intact. I let it warm up for an hour and checked it's internal ref. against GPSDO. No adjustments to it yet. Want to connect ext. ref. and do some statistics measuring a couple of OCXOs I have - 10 MHz and 100 MHz. So far so good.
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Please can people stop costing me money
Kosmic did it to me so I'm passing the favor along.
I am severely tempted too.
Your new FA-2 is just one click away ...
I've got my eye on something else right now but I'm not going to say what it is in case it doesn't pan out.
hey med
wow! a freq counter with 12 digits of resolution. it would be wrong to dive into that swamp without an upgrade to your house standard.
had a spare lpro-101 rubidium with plenty of life left in the physics package lamp......but have not seen it since we moved 4 years ago.
will have a look in some unopened boxes down the basement.
oh....you would have to make a power supply (seems like 24 V at a couple of amps? and you can't just whack it in next to a transformer because they can be sensitive to stray magnetic fields). oh.....and it has a base plate on one side that you gotta heat sink. (maybe mine is running at about 20V because someone said the lamp would last longer that way?)
aaaaand next you will need a gps freq standard to make sure the rubidium standard is doing its job. hope you have a spot for an outdoor antenna.
do you really want to go down the 12 digit rabbit hole? lady heather can be a real bitch. (not making that up....some comedian named the gps discipline software "lady heather")