[time-nuts] Agilent 53148A, thunderbolt and my 10 Ghz LO

[John Miles]

Well, sure, it's more accurate than the undisciplined OCXO in the counter,
that's the idea behind the Thunderbolt. :)

-- john, KE5FX

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> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 12:07 PM
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> Subject: [time-nuts] Agilent 53148A, thunderbolt and my 10 Ghz LO
>
>
> I'm borrowing a power meter and frequency county from work, an
> Agilent 53148A. While it's slow at work I wanted to make some
> measurements and align my ham radio stuff.
>
> It's last calibration was in May 08. I let it warm up for several
> hours, and it has the oven option.
>
> My 10 Ghz LO is 10,224 Mhz and it was 70 hz off. Not a big deal
> for my application.
>
> I found the manual and figured out how to choose an external
> reference on the 53148. I just wanted to ask the group if the
> Thunderbolt would be more accurate than the internal reference? I
> want to think it is but my link to the thunderbolt spec sheet is
> no longer valid.
>
> This weekend I'll measure it again using the tBolt as a reference.
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