Gawlee Chester.Ain't we gettin a little grouchy in our old age?
I thunk we wuz supposed to be amators. Can't we even goof around
wid our rigs and talk about drift and stuff no more...huh?
Whats wrong with playin engineer? I used to do that when I was a kid.
Yea, I had a whole bunch of little choo choo trains.
Keep Smile'n
N4LQ Steve
Chester Alderman wrote:
>
> I think your an amateur trying to do an engineers job! Before you make
> any decisions about what is doing what to what, how do you know your
> counter does not drift? How do you know the accurace of your freq.
> counter? You checked it against WWV? Heck, if your going to do
> engineering work, take your counter to a qualified calibration shop
> and get it certified, not only for freq accuracy, but for it's own
> stability. Then and ONLY then can you draw conclusions about
> 'something' drifting. And before you go way off base and spend your
> $50 bucks because you want to play engineer, check the specs on your
> Omni 6. The Omni 6 is not a frequency standard, it is a AMATEUR radio
> piece of equipment. If you want a frequency standard, HP sell's them
> for only about $125,000.
>
> At 03:34 PM 8/14/97 -0700, you wrote:
> >I took some data from my master oscillator. I waited 3 minutes for
> >the oven to settle down before taking measurements. I set the
> >trimmer cap to a reference frequency of 10.00001 and went from
> >there. I used the Startek frequency counter with 10 Hz resolution.
> >
> >Began at 20:30 and measured 10.00001
> > 20:40 10.00002
> > 20:50 10.00003
> > 21:20 10.00004
> > 21:58 10.00005
> > 22:22 10.00006
> >
> >There are some points where I observed flutter where the freq counter
>
> >was transitioning, so these times are not really exact, and only give
>
> >10 Hz resolution. However, there is a definite trend :-). Would
> >you all say that this is not acceptable for the Ten Tec OMNI VI
> >master oscillator crystal oven? Should I go out and fork over the
> >$50 for a new one?
> >
> >I will check on my BFO next for good measure, it has been suggested
> >that problems can reside there also. I will check the trimmers in
> >different modes for alignment, and watch some of them to see if they
> >move much.
> >
> >Thanks for all the comments and suggestions.
> >
> >Clark
> >WA3JPG
> >
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> Chester Alderman
> W4BQF -- Tom
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