WWV is not a very good option. The signal fades a lot and has HF noise issues unless you have a really good location within ground wave. Carrier tracking is likely hard, which means you have to deal with the 1 PPS pips.
I've used a digital averaging scope, triggered by the 1 PPS from my local standard to trigger the scope display and watched the pips "walk" and adjusted things, but it's a PITA. You might want to think about WWVB at 60 KHz. You can probably pick up a fairly good GPS and oscillator for roughly the same price. FWIW, -John ============= > I'm new to this list. Before I ask a lot of questions maybe someone > can point me at some reading material. > > I've decided I want a decent frequency reference for normal ham radio > stuff like calibrating test equipment, testing oscillators for > stability and so on. > I figure at first I'll start with something simple. I'll build > something around a TXCO chip and I'll build a single purpose WWV > receiver. Later I'll > buy a GPS receiver that has the 1PPS feature and get a better local > double oven osc from HP. > > First question is a source of parts. Where to get the TXCO?, Is > there a preferred design for WWV receiver, What low cost GPSes should > I look at? > > Pointers to reading material would be great. > > > Thanks. > > Chris Albertson > Redondo Beach, California > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
