[time-nuts] statistical distribution of initial frequency error in tcxos

[jimlux]

On 3/13/19 2:28 PM, wb6bnq wrote:
> Hi Jim,
> 
> If you have a mother-ship and presuming that it is going to be within 
> "RF" range of all little ones, how about sending a "PILOT" tone that 
> comes from the mother-ship to phase lock all the little ones internal 
> oscillators ???

That's basically the idea. But you need multiple source locations at 
multiple frequencies to solve for position, velocity, and local clock 
offset.

The process is very much like GPS (or Transit) but, of course, there is 
no GPS in deep space.