[time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 165, Issue 48

[AC0XU (Jim)]

Gary-

Interesting. The TICC is spec'ed to have a 10e-10 AD floor at 1 sec. Your measurement is slightly better than the spec. How can we know whether you are measuring the test source  (JL GPSTLXO) or the stability of the TICC itself?

Jim



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>I went ahead and bought the TAPR-TICC, it is a very impressive
>instrument.  For this setup it is combined with a Jackson Labs
>GPSTLXO as the 10MHz reference.  The JL is a GPS disciplined temperature
>compensated crystal oscillator.
>
>The first setup uses the TAPR-TICC in Period mode, outputting the PPS
>period individually for channel A and channel B.
>
>Channel A is the PPS of a plain u-blox NEO-M8N.  Channel B is the
>PPS of the JL GPSTLXO.
>
>Simple to get the cycle times from the USB serial port.
>
>Then I grabbed a copy of the easy to use Python Allantools.
>    https://github.com/aewallin/allantools
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>A little coding later and there are nice plots.  They were compared to
>the output of tvb's adev.c program.  Results are similar.
>
>Results are attached.  gps.png is the plain NEO-M8N.  GPSTLXO is the
>JL part.
>
>gps.png looks as expected.  GPSTLXO.png shows the quality of the JL part,
>but does have some odd divots in the plot.  Maybe artifacts of using the
>PPS derived from the reference 10MHz?  Or an artifact of the 10e6 divider?
>
>There are adev's of Rb standards here: http://www.ke5fx.com/rb.htm
>
>My guess is that the oadev at 1s would be about 50x better with
>a Rubidium?  But similar at 10k seconds?
>
>Comments?
>
>RGDS
>GARY
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