[time-nuts] WWVB Now a Monopoly

[J. Forster]

You go after everything. Soup to nuts, including the contract agreements.

IMO, this is potentially very, very big money, because Xtendwave may also
have patent protection, and henceforth control all the precise digital
clock market. This is tens of millions of units, at least.

-John

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> Hi
>
> I still think the original idea about a FOA filing is a *very* good one.
> Don't go after the receiver. Go after all the details about the transmit
> format.
>
> Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
> Behalf Of Tom Miller
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 12:55 PM
> To: jfor at quikus.com; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] WWVB Now a Monopoly
>
> Class action suit anyone?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quikus.com>
> To: <time-nuts at febo.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 12:46 PM
> Subject: [time-nuts] WWVB Now a Monopoly
>
>
> I just received this in reply to a query ablot the availability of
> receiver designs for the new WWVB format:
>
> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
> Subject: Re: WWVB Protocol Notification
> From:    "John Lowe" <lowe at boulder.nist.gov>
> Date:    Wed, September 26, 2012 9:13 am
> To:      "jfor at quikus.com" <jfor at quikus.com>
>          "Lowe, John P" <john.lowe at nist.gov>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> No sir, the government does not have a receiver design.  The design has
> been created by Xtendwave under an SBIR grant.  Their design is
> proprietary.
>
> Sorry,
>
> John
>
>
> ================
>
> To me this reads...   If you want to use the publicly financed WWVB
> service, you MUST buy the Xtendwave hardware.
>
> This is an outrage, IMO.
>
> YMMV
>
> -John
>
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