[time-nuts] WWVB Antenna revisited/Spectracom 8182

[paul swed]

I'll add to the comments the spectracoms are phase tracking receivers and
do not work on the new BPSK  signal.
As mentioned over the years I and others have offered approaches to
correcting the carrier. My last approach that worked very well over great
distances was the cheatin d-psk-er. Works what can I say. But it was never
kit-ed or anything, nor did I want to get into that business. My hats off
to those who make that effort. But I released everything on time-nuts and
to other people who wanted to post it.
Essentially an arduino driven by gps for time and the tick that new how to
create the actual BPSK data stream and to undo what NIST did. It flipped it
back at the same time. The cheatin part was using GPS as the time source.
It also required a soldering iron...
Simple, dump, stupid. The best approach.

As others say the spectracoms certainly have a nice display but the new
WWVB clocks are pretty darn nice for $50-70 as I recall.

Regards
Paul
WB8TSL


On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 3:47 PM, Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:

>
> organlists at pacbell.net said:
> > One would think inexpensive products would be sacrificed verses the more
> > expensive equipment.
>
> There are many many the low cost units and only a few of the expensive
> ones.
>
> It would be interesting to see how many of the expensive WWVB boxes were
> still running when they made the switch in transmission format.  I expect
> most of the places that needed good time had already switched to GPS.
>
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