Wow.... you really missed my point and by having someone
listening/monitoring it is not broadcasting. Especially if it is in reality
for the most part... telemetry.
Maybe I wasn't clear or maybe my message could have been misunderstood. For
that, I am truly sorry. I was thinking along the lines of what John stated,
"a beacon network that works like LORAN...".
* I'll shut up now and go back to just reading the posts for another month
or so..."
73 Brice KA8MAV
----- Original Message -----
From: "jimlux" <jim...@earthlink.net>
To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement"
<time-nuts@febo.com>
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 11:39 PM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] 60 KHz Receiver
Heathkid wrote:
Doesn't someone on here with a Ham license have a Cs standard and "could"
put up a 1pps signal? Simply transmit your callsign within the 1pps
(there has to be a way) and we have a non-Govt. time standard "if
needed". A simple 1pps PSK-31 (or other digital mode) signal would
probably work and be completely legal. Let's do this on our own and not
rely on Govt. or GPS... Several throughout the world acting together (I'm
not a programmer so someone could step up and figure out the logistics
for a receiver) and we would have an alternative to GPS (IF/when it stops
working).
a) broadcasts aren't legal for US hams
b) ionospheric uncertainty in the skywave path makes this no better than
WWV
c) Whats wrong with GPS and/or WWV and/or CHU or whatever?
d) A cheap Rb would give you a local reference that is much better than
what you could do with receiving something via skywave.
If you want something that isn't run by governments,and is a technical
challenge, how about pulsars? I'd guess (not having looked into it at
all) that is would be cheaper to set up a station to receive pulsars than
to run a Cs standard.
While I fully sympathize with the "stand alone" approach (that's one of
the appeals of HF comms in general.. you aren't depending on anyone else's
infrastructure), I don't know that setting up a time standards station
fits in with that..
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