[time-nuts] Optical time sync

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Fri May 2 04:37:33 UTC 2008


> Now these are quite impressive but what really caught my eye was one
> with a Garmin hockey puck GPS antenna on top of it, I thought 'what's
> this?'  I inquired of the sales rep lady at the booth and she informed
> me that beacons for wind farms are required to have sychronized beacon
> lights.

Neat hack.  Thanks.

I assume a GPS on top of a windmill has a great view of the sky.  How much 
trouble do they get from multi-path off the blades?  Are they metal or 
fiberglass?


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