When the transition to digital only happened, I happened to ask a ham friend who was chief engineer at the local Fox station what they were doing with all their gear. He said probably taking it to a hamfest. I said if you chuck your rubidium or cesium standard let me know. He started laughing and said we don’t have anything that precision, you’d be lucky for it to be a TCXO.
Chris KD4PBJ > On Mar 31, 2018, at 9:46 AM, jimlux <jim...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > On 3/30/18 10:43 PM, Hal Murray wrote: >>> As noted earlier, color burst references were a big deal a long time ago. >> Thanks. I was fishing for something modern, maybe a bit clock out of the >> digital receiver. >> I'm assuming that the digital stream is locked to the carrier. That may not >> be correct. > Maybe locked, but probably not in a 'integer number of cycles per symbol' > sense, more in the "derived from the same master 10 MHz reference" sense. > > All stations use the same data rates, but have different carrier frequencies, > and the carrier frequencies are the same ones we've always had, which don't > necessarily have nice ratios between them. > > _______________________________________________ > 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.