[time-nuts] Loran in the US

[Bob Camp]

Hi

Should be *very* interesting to watch if they try to legislate something
like that...

Bob

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Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 5:10 PM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Loran in the US

In message <D20D95B53D5C40F5ACA05DF98FDB9F08 at vectron.com>, "Bob Camp"
writes:

>If they are backing up GPS for telcom, then CDMA timing is the most likely
>target. That gets them to 10 us max and < 1 us typical. Of course somebody
>would have to buy the gear to actually *use* it to do any good... (yes I
>could and have gone on and on about that topic). 

Well, they do actually regulate telecoms, so they may simply be told that
it will be a condition for their licenses.

That happened with respect to power backups for cellular towers
after Katrina showed the inadequacy of 3 hours lead-acid backup.

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