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is why it's going away.  From talking to my Navy buddy who was one of their
keepers of the time, they don't use LORAN for timing applications as he was
one of the guys that went around synchronizing the Cesium beams.  Is it
really that big of a deal if this system goes away?  I just don't see any
significant reason to keep it around as a backup for a very small minority
of people out there that would wish to continue to use it, especially for
our hobby.

That being said, is there such a thing as an NTP Disciplined Oscillator?
Although, GPS is probably more reliable than my Internet connection!

Thanks,
Bob

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Mark Spencer <mspencer12345 at yahoo.ca>wrote:

> Any thoughts on how complex a receiver would need to be to produce a 1 pps
> signal that was locked to the carrier frequency it was receiving ? Lot&#39;s
> of comercial transmitting equipment is designed to use an external frequency
> standard and if a transmitter at a high altitude site was locked to a cesium
> source it could serve a typical metroplitan area.   Locking an existing
> transmiiter to a cesium standard would not require any special signals or
> wave forms to be transmitted.  To be usefull the receiver would need to
> produce a standard 1 pps output.
>
> Stanley Reynolds wrote:
> > How about the Volunteer Association of GPS Backup for Timing, VAGBT ?
> > Propose of the group is to provide backup distribution of timing
> information for GPS users, via armature radio and cesium clocks. To develop
> many local transmit stations as possible and low cost receivers with both
> extended holdover and comparison to GPS to measure backup accuracy. Many low
> power transmitters would be required as the cost of continuous operation
> would be lower for each station, and the identification of less accurate
> stations possible if several in each location was avabile.
> > Stanley
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