[time-nuts] Bye-Bye Crystals

Magnus Danielson magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Sun Mar 12 18:35:19 EDT 2017


Hi Jim,

On 03/12/2017 10:39 PM, jimlux wrote:
> On 3/12/17 5:53 AM, Magnus Danielson wrote:
>
>> I don't like how higher Q is confused with higher frequency stability.
>> As most here should know, it is a bit of a mix-up of two different
>> stability aspects.
>>
>
> That is indeed a "time-nuts" vs "frequency-nuts" level distinction.

Well, Q does have it's influence on phase-noise and thus ADEV, but 
doesn't really say much about frequency in regard to temperature 
stability or drift.

Yeah, I'm a bit picky about details like that, and I think others should 
learn it right.

Cheers,
Magnus


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