At least on the Atlantic coast, the WWVB signal levels jump all over the place, certainly 40 dB and maybe more. If a receiver cannot deal w/ that w/o losing lock, it's nearly useless.
OTOH, LORAN was always a whopping signal. -John ================ > Chuck thats easy. Because I could make it work. :-) > That said there was a post on time-nuts about LORAN C receiver in > software. > I responded and have had the great pleasure of communicating with Matthias > over the last two weeks. I have learned a lot already and he in return has > a tested LORAN C receiver. > So with some luck just maybe I can become smart enough to do a better > design in software on a $15 micro. You still need the RF frontend section > that I released quite a while ago to time-nuts. > Regards > Paul > WB8TSL > > > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Chuck Harris <cfhar...@erols.com> wrote: > >> At 60KHz, it shouldn't be out of range of most >> general purpose CPU's, and even the most pathetic DSP. >> >> Why bother with a hardware solution when software can >> do it more easily? >> >> -Chuck Harris >> >> >> Florian Teply wrote: >> >>> Well, if someone comes up with a circuit, I could check how much chip >>> area that would consume in a 250nm SiGe BiCMOS... Shouldn't be out of >>> range for a serious time nut ;-) >>> >>> Florian >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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. >> > _______________________________________________ > 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.