Re: [time-nuts] B-1B bomber time reference

2012-12-14 Thread Bob Camp
Hi Ummm…… e….. wasn't the ARC-164 the original HAVE QUICK radio? They certainly came out in both HAVE QUICK I and HAVE QUICK II versions. Yes, that was 30 years ago…. Bob On Dec 14, 2012, at 1:24 AM, Peter Bell bell.pe...@gmail.com wrote: One of the very first time related projects I

Re: [time-nuts] B-1B bomber time reference

2012-12-14 Thread Robert Atkinson
:24 Subject: Re: [time-nuts] B-1B bomber time reference One of the very first time related projects I was involved in was for synchronizing radios - this was when they were retrofitting HAVE QUICK to the AN/ARC-164 and wanted a cheap, portable source of TOD data - the GPS was a 2-Channel Magnavox

Re: [time-nuts] B-1B bomber time reference

2012-12-14 Thread Peter Bell
It was certainly one of the very first radios with it - but there was also a non HQ version (the most obvious sign was that the synthesizer slice just had Synth rather than Synth/ECCM on it. The RAF in the UK had a bunch of them and wanted to modify them to HQ spec for interoperability - the

Re: [time-nuts] B-1B bomber time reference

2012-12-14 Thread Bob Camp
Hi The ARC-164 most certainly existed long before HAVE QUICK came along. My only point was that HAVE QUICK didn't exist before the ARC-164 got it. Bob On Dec 14, 2012, at 9:46 AM, Peter Bell bell.pe...@gmail.com wrote: It was certainly one of the very first radios with it - but there was

Re: [time-nuts] B-1B bomber time reference

2012-12-14 Thread Peter Bell
Ah, OK - I didn't realize that it was actually the first HQ radio - all I knew was that it was the first one that I saw... On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Bob Camp li...@rtty.us wrote: Hi The ARC-164 most certainly existed long before HAVE QUICK came along. My only point was that HAVE

[time-nuts] B-1B bomber time reference

2012-12-13 Thread gary
If you are curious about how the B-1B bomber sets its time reference, go to www.fbo.gov and search for F1S0AF2321B001 in the box next to keyword. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to

Re: [time-nuts] B-1B bomber time reference

2012-12-13 Thread Peter Bell
It's quite amusing that they decided to redact the quantity and unit price from the sole source letter - but the other document says we are going to buy 14 of these - sort of makes you wonder why they bothered... On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:26 AM, gary li...@lazygranch.com wrote: If you are

Re: [time-nuts] B-1B bomber time reference

2012-12-13 Thread lists
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 10:57:16 To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurementtime-nuts@febo.com Reply-To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] B-1B bomber time reference It's quite amusing that they decided to redact

Re: [time-nuts] B-1B bomber time reference

2012-12-13 Thread Peter Bell
One of the very first time related projects I was involved in was for synchronizing radios - this was when they were retrofitting HAVE QUICK to the AN/ARC-164 and wanted a cheap, portable source of TOD data - the GPS was a 2-Channel Magnavox unit (C/A code only) and they also did the firmware