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Thanks, that makes sense, curious how they seem to get away with a VCTCXO in this case (or at least I couldn't seem to find mention of rubidium clocks in addition).



Different qualities: Quartz crystals are better than Rb when looking at short periods. Long-term stability is normally provided by GPS. Rubidium beats crystals when it comes to stability over hours - it is added as a fallback for when GPS fails. If you don't have a requirement that your system can work lets say 24 or 48 hours without GPS sync, you can skip the Rb.




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