[time-nuts] FTS 1050A What to do??

[paul swed]

so send a pix of the widget curious to see what it looks like.

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 12:26 PM, paul swed <paulswedb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Paul,
> That is nice oscillator and as you noted semi-useless.
> So with that in mind you could multiply by 6 and get to 36 Mhz.
> Use that as a clock for a DDS to divide to something usable at 5 MC granted
> some jitter but might be quite good.
>
> Ok now that's really not exciting but then again. You were just scratching
> your head and said something like the following fun project.
> Suppose you divide that by 100. Hmmm anything familiar? And its only 3hz
> off at that point. Seems like you might have quite a useful widget after
> all.
> Its just math.
>
> Regards
> Paul
> WB8TSL
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Paul A. Cianciolo <paulc at snet.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello Folks,
>>
>> In my collection of stuff, I found an FTS 1050a in good condition.
>> It has been sitting for 5 years, and I decided to fire it up last night.
>> It works.
>> Opened it up and took a look inside.  The main reference is a large box
>> which I assumed was filled with foam insulation.
>> Everything is screw together, so I decided to take a look inside.
>> A bunch of control electronics, all the normal foam, with the cylinder
>> mounted in the middle of the foam.
>> The cylinder slides out, and Lo and Behold..... The oscillator sits inside
>> a
>> little thermos bottle.
>> A Dewar, I guess its called.  I should point out that I am new to this
>> area
>> of electronics and had never seen one of these before.
>> There is a rubber blanket all around the oscillator so it fits snugly into
>> the Dewar.
>> I reassembled it all, with breaking anything and fired it back up again.
>> All is fine.
>>
>> So what the heck am I droning on about??
>>
>> Well here is the deal; this is a special version of the 1050A made for
>> cable
>> television companies.
>> The output is 6.0003  Mhz  that fed a comb generator creating harmonics
>> that
>> were the local oscillator reference for each ascending cable TV channel.
>> So as nice as this thing is and I would like to use it..... What do you do
>> with a 6.0003 Mhz  frequency Standard.
>> Its not going to tune to 5. 00000 Mhz and its doubtful that the oven can
>> be
>> modified without great expense.
>> Dividing the 6.0003 Mhz doesn't seem feasible.
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> It very nice to look at maybe I will put it in the rack for aesthetics
>> alone?
>> Bummed
>>
>>
>> Paul A. Cianciolo
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