In this rather longish video we get to the bottom of the glitching issues we had seen in the crystal oscillator of our Soyuz space clock. Which gets us on a detour to reverse engineering a Soviet TTL chip, look at a quartz crystal on the VNA, and fight general RF electronic mayhem. 00:00 Glitch investigation 04:39 Inside a vintage Russian TTL chip 08:16 Quartz crystals and oscillators 21:15 Debugging the glitchy oscillator 32:44 Success and conclusion Ken Shirriff article on reverse engineering the Sovie
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