[time-nuts] HP 117/10509a...

[J. Forster]

No residual carrier is required.

-John

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> On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 11:13:32PM -0400, Merchison Burke wrote:
>> Glad to know that it is not finalised as yet. When I read about this
>> wrinkle, I was about to put my units up for sale.
>
> 	Put them up for sale.  If you can find a buyer.
>
> 	I asked Mr. Lowe this week and was told there'd be no residual
> carrier or workaround for existing phase locking receivers, even time
> of day receivers.
>
> 	Debating what to do with mine, really, keep them as nice pieces
> of hardware (albeit in my own personal museum) -- they can go next to
> the LORAN and GOES receivers.  The pile is getting pretty big these
> days.  Anyone have an OMEGA receiver they want to part with?
>
> 	Sorry, but if you want something besides GPS, you're on your
> own.  The US government has made its priorities clear -- if it's not
> GPS, it's an 'obsolete waste.'
>
> 	Somehow, we lose out vs "12 million" WWVB clocks, despite the
> fact that not 3 years ago they were willing to obsolete all those
> clocks with an added 40 or 75 kHz station.  At least, as long as
> 'stimulus' funds were being waved around.
>
> 	Along the lines of developing a receiver:
>
> 	Since they haven't settled on the format, there's no additional
> documentation available [that was the second part of my question..]
>
> 	I'm torn on the subject anyway...part of me wants the challenge,
> and part of me thinks that if the format can be changed without a public
> comment period or a phase out timeframe, that it may not be worth the
> risk of developing one.
>
> 	As it stands I guess I'm back to WWV/WWVH as a backup.
> But I can have all the self setting wall-clocks I want -- provided I
> don't mind flipping them between PST and MST, since few allow you to
> disable DST.  :)
>
> 	--msa
>
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