One of the great things which the telecom bust did was to make the equipment
you designed at HP available to us experimenters -- I use my HP3586C
Receiver's ovenized oscillator to drive my HP5334 frequency counter and
HP3336B Synthesizer. I never dreamed I could have afforded this type of
equipment until EBay made it possible.

"Rick Karlquist N6RK" wrote in message
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Some the guys around here use them on 10 GHz SSB.
You really need that kind of stability for that mode.
A TCXO is 100X worse. Another popular use is as
a "flywheel" with GPS, to get a very accurate frequency
source. Search on "HP Z3801" for info.

(I worked at the HP division that made these for 19 years.)

Rick N6RK


"hamaddict" wrote in message
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What possible use does a HP 10811-6011 Crystal Oscillator have in a
homebrew project. I came across one of these but don'y really know
what to do with it. I hate to toss it out.