[time-nuts] [qs1r] Looking for good, cheap, external reference

[Lester Veenstra]

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Hi,

I'm interested in doing some ionospheric research, but I don't want to break
the bank with an $8,000 USD GPS disciplined Rubidium clock.

Anyone have some ideas on cheaper alternatives? The QS1R, and the Flex-3000,
both use a TCXO and they have pretty good long-term stability, but there is
a 1-2 Hz wander at 10 MHz imposed on the frequency over a duration of about
45 minutes to one hour. It looks like an exponential rise to one limit,
followed by an exponential decay to the opposite limit. 

For long term stability, it obviously requires a temperature stabilized
environment, but I have observed a slow diurnal variation in the TCXO mean
frequency of about 1-2 Hz at 10 MHz just sitting on my desk, exposed in the
morning to some brief sunlight.

For comparison, my old Icom 756ProIII looks astonishingly stable, but with a
fixed frequency offset of around 0.8 Hz (the best I could do by tweaking the
pot on the PLL). At most I see a very slow diurnal wander of around 0.5 Hz
at 10 MHz. Whatever Icom did, they did it very well.

- de N7AIG

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