> John I am with Bob on this. Its to keep the gear ticking and an alternate > to GPS (Sort of).
I agree with that objective, but, I have seen peoplwe take BC-611 radios and put cheap CB into the box. That interests me not in the slightest. > But there is a huge difference between this and LORAN C. > Here there is an opportunity to evolve as compared to LORAN that was > simply killed. I agree the LORAN-C shutdown was idiotic, but NIST is essentially obsoleting all phase tracking receivers by going to BPSK. IMO, it is essentially like the change from LORAN-A to LORAN-C, except that it will happen at some defined date/time rather than over the years. > Further maybe even obtain better performance. But thats far from my > concern right now. I simply want to get the systems back online to watch > propagation behaviors as I have for years. I don't see how. The time transmitted will have the same propagation issues as the 60 kHz, so will be subject to diurnal variations plus ionospheric randomness. > Maybe in the future there will be a $7 chip set that magically does whats > been written by nist/John Lowe. Or like someone suggested we get the dtv > tuner coupon. :-) Not likely. Could well be just an EPROM, but you need all the other stuff to support it... antenna, cables, power supply. A $7 will not be the end of it. YMMV, -John ================ > But it does truly seem possible to succeed on this. Maybe its our skills > that are insufficient to pull this off. But I haven't given up at all. > Just delayed with family... > Can't wait to heat the soldering iron up late next week. > > Regards > Paul _______________________________________________ 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.
