[time-nuts] GOES. to GPS converter antenna....is there really one?

[Tom Van Baak]

> Yes, there was a Truetime G2G product at one time. I've tested
> one and it works fine. I wonder if it was a customer-requested
> special, created for GOES receiver sites that didn't have a clear
> view to the east or west GOES satellite. It doesn't simulate the
> GOES RF signal per-se. Instead it modulates the return IF as if
> it were the GOES east timecode. The date& time comes from
> GPS time. Perhaps an old-timer from Truetime could tell us the
> motivation behind the G2G. I'm guessing not many were made.

Correction. For a photo see:

   http://www.leapsecond.com/museum/g2g/

/tvb