Using Synthesizer #2 for the Phase Lock Loop 26 Mar 97 The FEORGA program can now send a frequency to the second HP synthesizer. This is done via "Frontend #2". This can be loaded with the rest frequency, etc via the FESET and LINE commands in OBST if one specifies /RECEIVER_L 2 instead of the default 1. Once this is done, the backend(s) selected with the AOS command will be "connected" to frontend #2 via the OBSINP command(s) CBEn 2. (SHOW RECEIVER_L to see which frontend will be chosen. The Current value for this adverb, not the Default is the one used.) To verify the settings in Frontend #2, one can go into OBSINP and type SHOW FE2. In principle, one can connect more than one frontend at a time. This would be done by the OBSINP command CBEn 1 for the nth backend and CBEm 2 for the mth backend. In that case, FEORGA will send frequencies to both synthesizers. But since there is currently only one 100 MHz reference oscillator, one would have to disable the steering of this frequency by setting the steering range to zero with OBSINP commands RPL1 0 and RPL2 0. (Normally, these are set to 10 MHz.) The OBST macros, however, do not now support this using two frontends, so one would have to do the OBSINP commands CBE and RPL manually. (OBSINP will also allow connecting a backend to both frontends via CBEn 12 and this would also cause FEORGA to send both frequencies. However, the scan header would then be wrong in CLASS, as the backend's would not have the correct rest frequencies assigned.)