[time-nuts] HP5090A Off Air Standard Receiver

GandalfG8 at aol.com GandalfG8 at aol.com
Mon Jun 19 07:51:32 EDT 2017


Ummmmm...
 
I'm sure this response was well intended, so thank you for that and for the 
 advice, but I do feel that Attila's earlier  reply explained my reasoning 
remarkably well.
 
Under consideration is the taking of a very nice example of  an older and 
now unusable off air frequency reference, a little bit of  interesting 
history perhaps, and putting it back on the air without any  form of internal 
modification.
 
So what's the point?
 
Well that's it, other than the satisfaction of doing it there really  is no 
point, other than perhaps, to quote one of my wife's favourite sayings,  
"just because":-)
 
Time code receivers are not really my thing, each to their own I  guess, 
but a no doubt somewhat unhealthy obsession with  reasonably precise frequency 
generation does mean that finding a more modern  frequency source to drive 
it may not be too much of a problem:-)
 
Nigel, GM8PZR
 
 
 
On 06/18/2017 04:17 PM, GandalfG8--- via time-nuts wrote:> I have a  
5090B which I'm hoping to get up and running when it finally
> reaches  the top of the to do list and my view is that it would be much 
better  to
>   leave the original electronics undisturbed and to drive  it with a  200 
KHz
> signal divided down from a from a GPSDO or a  rubidium  module, although
> having one of the latter already running  at 800KHz  does leave me a bit
> biased:-)
 
What in the world would the point of that be!?  It appears to be a  
long-obsolete product, so have you searched for more modern time code  
receivers from timing instrumentation (Meinberg, Brandywine, et al.) and  
surplus vendors?  It'll probably be pretty expensive, for it's probably  
much less popular than WWVB and DCF77.  Have you tried the  latter?  It 
might be receivable from Britain, and I've seen some  surplus DCF77 
receivers (e.g., an old ISA  card).
-Ruslan


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