On 09/28/2013 01:42 PM, Jim Lux wrote: > On 9/28/13 4:14 AM, Magnus Danielson wrote: >> On 09/26/2013 08:25 PM, Tom Knox wrote: >>> It seems you would need to think of the Pulsar as the clock behind >>> the GPS sat. You then have an algorithm to add the other need >>> information at the rec end. To make things easier add to the >>> constellation one master clock signal with corrections and other >>> needed info from earth. >> With enough of them, you can compare their beatings against your local >> clock and use that to count backwards in order to establish the TAI >> relationship of your clock in rate and phase, if only reference phase >> and frequency observations where made and listed. You would not get >> leap-seconds and UTC, because that needs the earth spin observations, >> but you can get a fair TAI if you work the numbers. >> > > Don't forget the Doppler and relativistic effects of the earth moving > around the solar system barycenter. But that's not much different > than you do for GPS (e.g. knowing satellite orbits, etc.) Naturally. You also needs to compensate for their decay-rate as you try to span longer periods.
You can use them for navigation and time, just like GPS. Even seen a presentation on that. Cheers, Magnus _______________________________________________ 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.
