Re: [time-nuts] Timing Distribution in Mountainous Terrain

2010-09-09 Thread John Anderson
Hmmm...I design such timing systems for Moto data radios, and 30nS sync is going to be very hard to achieve in reality.  Over a few hundred miles you're going to have OTA time of flight issues, temperature dependencies, etc.  Over the years this has been tried, usually with dismal success in the

Re: [time-nuts] Alternate frequency sources - second opinions

2009-11-29 Thread John Anderson
Regarding the thread about NTP as a backup timing source: We've done quite a lot of customizing of NTP code here in our lab, and researching ways to make it better than typically 20mS on a good day (reliably) over the cloud.  One of the main problems is that core assumption that the outbound pa