[time-nuts] TV Signals as a frequency reference

[Bob kb8tq]

Hi

To a great extent it depends on who was running the tech side of things. If the guy
in charge dug into it, they may have had a pretty fancy timing setup. If it was a 
“don’t bother / don’t dig / not very broken” sort of thing, the setup may have been 
pretty crazy. 

Bob

> On Mar 31, 2018, at 7:12 AM, Dana Whitlow <k8yumdoober at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'e always been curious as to why TV stations did not lock at least
> their in-house equipment to the network feed as  a means to avoid
> spending money on frame syncs.  Remote coverage, on the other
> hand, would of course open a new can of worms.
> 
> But compared to the cost of building and powering a TV station and
> associated studios etc, a Rb or three cost a mere drop in the bucket
> to buy and maintain, so I'm baffled as to why stations in general did
> not at use them on a regular basis.
> 
> Dana
> 
> 
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 12:43 AM, Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>
> wrote:
> 
>>> As noted earlier, color burst references were a big deal a long time ago.
>> 
>> Thanks.  I was fishing for something modern, maybe a bit clock out of the
>> digital receiver.
>> 
>> I'm assuming that the digital stream is locked to the carrier.  That may
>> not
>> be correct.
>> 
>> 
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>> 
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