[time-nuts] FE-30 OCXO

[Lux, Jim (337C)]

On 12/4/09 7:31 PM, "Bob Camp" <lists at cq.nu> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> A little more background on FEI.
> 
> For quite a while they were a major supplier to the high end of the military
> and space end of the oscillator business. A lot of their work was on
> classified projects. They branched out into the atomic clock business and also
> into the sub system business.
> 
> Nothing they did was ever going to sell on the cheap. Eventually this got them
> in hot water with the US government. The settlement of the case effectively
> barred them from competing on DOD projects. As a result they turned more to
> the telecom and commercial end of the business.


FEI is also a supplier of oscillators for deep space transponders and space
instruments.  I think that the Seawinds instrument on QuikScat used a FEI
28MHz STALO (even though launched in 1999, it was a modified version of GFO
( Geosat Follow On), which I believe was an 80s design)