If you connect the Thunderbolt EFC voltage up to the oscillator, Lady Heather's oscillator autotune (&a) command does a good job of characterizing the EFC slope/gain (Hz/volt) characteristics of a 10 MHz oscillator. It will step the EFC voltage up and down a few millivolts around the 10 MHz point and calculate the oscillator EFC gain.
I love using a Thunderbolt/NTBW50AA for making frequency measurements this
way. I remove the OCXO, and insert the 10MHz from the DUT. Then disable
disciplining so the DAC voltage doesn't try to chase the open loop
oscillator
If you connect the Thunderbolt EFC voltage up to the oscillator, Lady Heather's oscillator autotune (&a) command does a good job of characterizing the EFC slope/gain (Hz/volt) characteristics of a 10 MHz oscillator. It will step the EFC voltage up and down a few millivolts around the 10 MHz point and calculate the oscillator EFC gain.
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> I love using a Thunderbolt/NTBW50AA for making frequency measurements this
way. I remove the OCXO, and insert the 10MHz from the DUT. Then disable
disciplining so the DAC voltage doesn't try to chase the open loop
oscillator