[time-nuts] The "NAKED" 5065A optical unit

[Attila Kinali]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 09:36:49 -0700
Mark Goldberg <marklgoldberg at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't know anything about these devices, but for TCXOs, the power supply
> noise significantly affects the phase noise of the output. An LM317 is not
> well specified for noise and I expect is is orders of magnitude worse than
> something like an LT3042 low noise regulator.

It's >30dB for broadband noise, according to Gerhard Hoffmann's measurement:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/137684711@N07/24070698809/in/album-72157662535945536/

				Attila Kinali

-- 
It is upon moral qualities that a society is ultimately founded. All 
the prosperity and technological sophistication in the world is of no 
use without that foundation.
                 -- Miss Matheson, The Diamond Age, Neil Stephenson