[time-nuts] E1938A PN measurments

[Richard (Rick) Karlquist]

On 9/30/2012 2:20 PM, Magnus Danielson wrote:

>
> With two such offset 10811s you could use DMTD methods or for that
> matter cross-correlation phase noise measures to more directly measure
> the units. That way you would have avoided the "golden unit" issue,
> since the phase noise of those would average out if treated well.
>
> Didn't you consider steps like that?

I didn't "own" this system.  Production engineering was very
conservative and didn't want to change anything.

Rick