[time-nuts] Re: Looking For An Antenna

[Tom Van Baak]

Hi Chris,

Sorry, a 468 MHz GOES antenna won't help. That satellite timing service 
ended 15+ years ago, another victim to the global success of GPS. So 
antenna or not, the receiver has no signal to lock on to. That's why the 
receivers are so cheap these days. There may be old postings in the time 
nuts archives about all this. There are legacy web pages too. If nothing 
else, here is a nice read [1]:

"The GOES Time Code Service, 1974–2004: A Retrospective"
https://tf.nist.gov/general/pdf/2013.pdf

What many people have done is convert the cute 1U Kinemetrics boxes into 
DIY clocks. The ones with Sperry 7-segment Panaplex gas plasma displays 
have a very nice look and are worth something. An Arduino or equivalent 
could probably be used to hack the main board and get the display to 
work. Kinemetrics manuals are available for free on several test 
equipment manual archive sites.

/tvb

[1] Alternate locations:

https://tf.nist.gov/general/pdf/2013.pdf

https://www.nist.gov/publications/goes-time-code-service-1974-2004-retrospective

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27308105/


On 1/31/2022 6:32 PM, NoName via time-nuts wrote:
> I'm new to the group.  I'm looking for an antenna for a Kinemetrics
> 468-DC.  I only paid a few bucks for the unit and all the surplus
> companies want 800-900USD for an antenna.
>
> Does anyone have a source for a reasonably priced antenna, or, has
> anyone built one that they would care to share the details on.
>
> I appreciate anything I can learn,
>
> Chris
>