[time-nuts] HBG swiss time transmitter shutdown

[J. Forster]

There are places, like a lot thick with 100' pine trees, that satellites
are pretty much unusable. A tower is out of the question due to zoning.

Best,

-John

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> Well I miss loran c and certainly will miss the LF stations though they
> are
> cranky to get good readings from.
> However the reality is that numbers of governments are sending up
> satellites
> so there are alternate timing platforms. It was one thing when only GPS
> existed.
> And from this group every ones using GPS references pretty much.
> So it is evolution.
> Unfortunate.
> Regards
> Paul
> WB8TSL
>
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 6:16 PM, J. Forster <jfor at quikus.com> wrote:
>
>> Every time I hear of another time/frequency service being shut down by
>> shortsighted governments, putting more and more eggs into fewer and
>> fewer
>> baskets.
>>
>> I wonder how long it will be before the only remaining basket of will
>> suffer a catastrophic fall.
>>
>> :(
>>
>> -John
>>
>> ================
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > On 12/10/11 17:33, Azelio Boriani wrote:
>> >> Yes, they (the Swiss federal authorities) say it costs too much.
>> >
>> > Considering that GPS receivers are plentiful and provides similar or
>> > better performance it comes as no surprice.
>> >
>> > Maybe th RF oriented nuts shall capture the last cycles out of these
>> > transmitters as they finally shuts down. A bit like capturing leap
>> > seconds.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Magnus
>> >
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