[time-nuts] On some pitfalls of the dual mixer timedifferencemethod of h...

[Tom Van Baak]

> Interesting as the techniques employed may be, the resultant performance 
> is still inadequate for characterising state of the art oscillators.
> The instrument phase noise floor is higher than that specified for 
> current low noise (but not necessarily low drift) crystal oscillators.

Well, true, but perhaps one definition of "state of the art"
is simply when the high-end test tools that you can buy
off the shelf are inadequate compared to the newest
technology you are building in the lab...

/tvb