Did you know that crystal oscillators are orientation dependent?

[oz1lqo@techhub.social]

Did you know that crystal oscillators are orientation dependent? Well they are

Albeit in the milliHz range for a 10MHz OCXO, the frequency change is completely measurable when you rotate the unit and change the crystals reference to earths gravity

#rfengineering #hamradio #testandmeasurement

[quantensalat@scicomm.xyz]

@oz1lqo Haha cool, I think this was completely swamped by temperature effects in my applications so far

[oz1lqo@techhub.social]

@Quantensalat might wery well be…

[relistan@mstdn.social]

@oz1lqo TIL!