[time-nuts] C-Max Receiver Experiment

[Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R]

In the late 70s I took a 6800 based micro I designed for
Sidereal and developed "CTU - Chuck's Terminal Unit",
a program that ran an autostart responder on 80 meters.

The computer ran 1000 non maskable interrupts per second.
This powered Baudot send, receive, and distortion measurements.
It also powered a software phase locked loop that synced to and
decoded the WWVB signal.

A loopstick with lots of turns and a trimmer fed into a FET gate
makes for a very selective antenna.  I also happened to have a
60 KHz crystal filter on hand.  There weren't many switching
power supplies back then and reception was passable.  Today I
have a Radio Shack clock that has great difficulty synching and
two Oregon Scientific weather consoles that can't sync at all.

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Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R     caf at omen.com   www.omen.com
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