I can never figure out how to post here... This may not work. From what I remember, the "Atomic' wall clocks and watches only listen for WWVB a couple of times a day to conserve battery life - usually at night when propagation would be best. I don't know if the 60kHz signal is even available on a pin...
Jerry S. Burt I. Weiner biwa at att.net Mon Jun 17 13:56:17 EDT 2013 Previous message: [time-nuts] raspberry pi, adafruit gps & ntp Next message: [time-nuts] WWVB remodulator for the Spectracom 8170... Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Chris, I think Paul really came up with an elegant answer. As you well know, the problem with the new format and phase locked receivers is that WWVB's phase is now being shifted for the new encoding scheme. It's this phase shifting that's messing up the phase locked receivers like the Spectracom 8170. Part of Paul's circuit generates a new 60 kHz signal that's not phase shifted. The receiver portion of his circuit decodes the dips that WWVB still transmits, and outputs the data which is used to turn on and off a "switch" that drops the new 60 kHz signal by approximately 14 dB in sync with the WWVB dips. I'm going to build this circuit, but I'm planning on using the receive module out of one of the many "Atomic Clocks" that I have around. I guess you could ask, Why don't I just put the Atomic clock on the wall in my shoppe and forget about the 8170? An honest answer to that is, that's no fun. In a sense you could say that Paul's circuit does get the WWVB signal to the receiver - it's just a new phase stable version of the signal signal. This way I don't have to mess with the insides of the 8170. Burt, K6OQK _______________________________________________ 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.