Re: [time-nuts] WWVB PSK demodulation; simple carrier regeneration?

2012-11-20 Thread paul swed
Dave A couple of comments numbers of folks on Time-nuts have suggested the same types of approaches. Though outside of an armchair discussion not much happens. So I believe that what you say is reasonable. Jut remember lots of the country has poor reception so that really makes life hard. It was ab

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB PSK demodulation; simple carrier regeneration?

2012-11-20 Thread David Armstrong
Hi, I am have thinking / tinkering / planning a wwvb receiver for longer than I am willing to admit!! It seems to me that one could take a ferrite loop, JFET buffer, ADC and a small microprocessor to get down to baseband - say 20 Hz complex sampling rate - and then output on a serial port

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB PSK demodulation; simple carrier regeneration?

2012-11-20 Thread paul swed
Great thread. Bob in the d-psk-r thats exactly what I am doing is flipping a switch on the incoming signal. That normalizes it. However in its current approach it is random as either 0 or 180 out always. No attempt has been made to determine 0. But it does run the phase tracking rcvrs fine. That sa

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB PSK demodulation; simple carrier regeneration?

2012-11-20 Thread Bob Camp
Hi I believe the "lowest cost" approach is to take the RF and run it through an simple switch. The switch either has a 0 degree or a 180 degree phase shift. Drive the control of the switch with a computer generated track of the known modulation format. Let the computer get time via NTP and just

[time-nuts] WWVB PSK demodulation; simple carrier regeneration?

2012-11-19 Thread Peter Monta
Here are a few demodulated frames of WWVB's new BPSK bits: 0011101101000 01101 0(0)001100111(0)011011011(0)1010110 00 0 000 00 0 0011101101000 00100 0(1)001100111(1)011011011(1)1010111 00 0 000 00 0 0011101101000 01000 0(0)001100111(0)011011011(0)1011000 00 0 000 00 0 The fields are d