[time-nuts] Timing Distribution in Mountainous Terrain

Magnus Danielson magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Sat Sep 11 20:04:14 UTC 2010


On 09/11/2010 08:24 PM, Ralph Smith wrote:
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> On Sep 11, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Magnus Danielson wrote:
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>> On 09/11/2010 05:29 PM, jimlux wrote:
>>>>> If it's far enough in the future.. Hg ion traps have a lot of
>>>>> potential.. smaller, lower power, etc. than Cs
>>>>
>>>> Commercial availability is somewhat limited.
>>>
>>> that's for sure.. I think all the Hg ion traps are still laboratory
>>> curiosities.. but, 10 years from now?
>>
>> Sure, but that assumes his target deployment is 10 years ahead.
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> Much closer than 10 years. The idea is to use existing or soon to be deployed infrastructure from the US ADS-B installation to also perform multilateration.

I assumed within 1 or 2 years. This rules out waiting for 
commercialisation of new standards or new approaches on ADS-B receivers 
unless you control that process yourself.

>> Yes, yes... I understood perfectly what you where describing and no doubt such a hint would be most useful, but it may not be applicable to his problem. The question is really if he has complete boxes to build with or can alter their design. Additional delta-channels is best handled in a combined receiver, as being done in many other similar heading receivers... such as GPS receivers with angular orientation such as used in airplanes and on ships.
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> Multilateration can be performed with existing radios being deployed, deriving time synchronization from GPS. Future revision of radio specifications are possible, but are more likely to be incremental changes of existing design rather than more significant architectural changes.

As expected. The concept for ADS-B multilateration is already set down, 
so the available parameters is really providing a timing system, 
algorithms of multilaterations and possibly aiding to sort things out.

Cheers,
Magnus



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