[time-nuts] VLF Phase-tracking receivers.

[paul swed]

Ken
All of the phase tracking receivers no longer work due to the new bpsk wwvb
modulation.
Certainly if you need accuracy any of the GPSDOs out there are better then
the old wwvb receivers.

I have a 599 and will hope that the project I have been working on for far
to long will allow it to track again.
As to the 1310s etc. Never heard of them. Something to search for on the
internet.
Regards
Paul
WB8TSL


On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 5:55 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>
wrote:

> Hello, I'm new here, but would like to get some advice, if possible.
>
> I have been going through my inventory here of items which were given to
> me in an estate some time ago.
>
> Amongst many other things, I find three Tracor or Textran 599 receivers.
> One 599-CS with its manual, a 599 (no suffix) and one labeled R-1086/URR,
> which is very obviously another 599. I have no manual for either of the
> last
> two.
>
> I also have an RMS Engineering of Atlanta, GA Model 1312 receiver, but the
> manuals (2) I have are for an RMS Engineering model 1310/1311.
>
> So my questions:
>
> 1) Are the Tracor/Textran 599s worth anything other than parts? and
>
> 2) Is there a manual available somewhere for the RMS Engineering Model
> 1312?
>
> 3) Is the 1312 worth anything to anyone these days?
>
> From the manuals I have on the 599 models, I am quite impressed with their
> specifications.
>
> I would think about using one or the other of them except that I no longer
> have an extremely accurate 100 KHz signal source.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken Gordon W7EKB
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