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[TenTec] Orion TCXO Warm Up Drift

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Subject: [TenTec] Orion TCXO Warm Up Drift
From: al_lorona@agilent.com (al_lorona@agilent.com)
Date: Wed Jun 18 13:28:12 2003
Now it's my turn to say, "Huh?" You mean the Ten Tec spec includes what happens 
in the first hour after power on? That would be highly irregular. 

Nobody that I know who buys a piece of test equipment starts counting 
oscillator frequencies and such until the unit under test is warmed up.

Al  W6LX

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Erbaugh [mailto:mark@microenh.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 18 June 2003 9:35 AM
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion TCXO Warm Up Drift
> 
> 
> I had a typo in my original post. I meant to say +/- 3 ppm 
> and I thought
> that was being generous.  1 ppm sound more likely for a TOL 
> rig such as the
> Orion. With +/- 1 ppm, the excursion should be less than 20 
> Hz (+/- 1 * 10)
> at 10 MHz so the 35 Hz drift is way too high.
> 
> 73,
> Mark
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <nq5t@attbi.com>
> To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 11:35 AM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion TCXO Warm Up Drift
> 
> 
> > The spec is +/- 1 ppm at "room temperature" and +/- 3ppm "over
> temperature",
> > which I presume means over the defined operating range of 0-50 degC.
> >
> > As far as "excursion" is concerned, the range would be 2 
> ppm at "room
> temp" and
> > 6 ppm from 0-50 degC (if my interpretation of what "over 
> temperature"
> means is
> > correct).
> >
> > Grant/NQ5T
> >
> > > > It looks like your Orion may be out of spec.  TT 
> published specs on
> > > Orion's
> > > > temperature stability is +/- 10 ppm, At 10 MHz, that is 
> 30 Hz.  Your
> Orion
> > > > had an excursion of 989.0 - 953.7 or 35.3 Hz. One would 
> hope that the
> +/-
> > > 10
> > > > ppm is 'worst case' but your measurements are even worse.
> > > >
> > > > 73,
> > > > Mark
> > > >
> > > >
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