Is the Panther receiver clock synchronized to the RF & LO sources?
The Panther receiver, as an IF receiver, is not synchronized, nor is it required to be syncronized with an external reference clock. As long as the Ref IF is 20 MHz, the receiver works as advertised. The beam controller section, though not synchronized from an explicit reference signal, can be synchronous with external devices (and therefore those external device clocks). An example would be pulse mode. Measurements made in pulse mode are triggered off of the beam controler Input 4 (pulse edge), therefore the beam controller becomes synchronous to the reference oscillator of the pulse generating device. But still, the Panther internal clock is not synchronous to an external clock.
