I'm actually working(slowly) on something like this. A good sixe antennal will go up inside a 20 foot tall pole in the back fence. This will receive the 60KHz signal from WWWV Ft. Collins, Co. There are several antenna types but I've found a 4" loopstick works here. Them the signal is converted to a binary time code and put on a RS442 serial cable. rs442 is good for at least 1,000 feet.
But if all you want is an accurate clock, any cell phone is pretty good, iPhones and iPads stay on-time most people now have one of there with them full time. You see very few peole with wrist watches anymore and no one under 30. My purpose for getting WWWV is to compare it with GPS time and I hope maybe learn something about the atmosphere. Any different in the two times must be because of the path delay. On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 5:09 AM, mag3 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, new to this group. If an FAQ exists, please point me there and > I'll read up. > > Anyway, things where I live have changed such that I no longer receive > the radio broadcast time signals from Ft. Collins, Co. etc. etc. My "Atomic" > wall clocks, even my watches no longer pick it up. My watch does pick up > the signal when I'm staying elsewhere in the country. I have no issues with > NTP protocol for my SOHO at home. That works well. MY PDC picks up the > NTP signal, and then re-broadcasts it to the other machines via Windows > Time Service. > > What I'm looking for (and asking the NG), if they exist, are one or both of > the following: > > 1) A small, low power "transmitter" device that attaches to your > SOHO, > receives the NTP signal, and then re-broadcasts it in "radio > broadcast" > format for all your other atomic clock devices in the house > that receive > via that signal? > > 2) Failing the above (and I'd imagine how the US Authorities > might have issues > with it), then perhaps a set of wall clocks (digital or > analog) with either USB > or RJ-45 NIC ports that can synchronize directly via NTP > signals... I mean > "Cheap" ones, not "Industry Grade" devices in the $1000+ etc. > range. > > > Pie in the sky, perhaps, but there's no harm in asking... :-) > > Thanks much. > > ____________________________________________ > Regards, > > Arnold > > _______________________________________________ > questions mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
