[time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[UNIVERSAL-SOLDERR Canada]

I want to say some things about the ES100 development kits we offer in our
Universal-Solder online store.

 

First of all, please keep in mind that the entire development was done to
fix reception issues with the older AM standard. When the WWV stations were
installed, there wasn't a remarkable amount of "electro smog" those days,
and the reception was probably more related to the length of your loopstick.
Today we have a completely different situation, and standard "atomic clocks"
pick up noise from so many devices like your phone charger, your flat
screen, or even your 120V LED light bulbs, but are because of a lack on
digital processing and filtering hardly capable of finding the amplitude
shift in the noise floor. And this is, where BPSK comes to play, and what it
was developed for: For a new generation of "atomic clocks" with substantial
better reception in difficult or noisy environment, and within buildings. 

 

This said, WWVB BPSK is not meant to be more precisely than the AM standard,
and in my opinion it can't even be, since there is digital signal processing
and data transmission protocols involved. But who cares, when the second
hand on a wall clock is 50ms behind? I actually hope the time error, caused
by the function of the microcontroller and data communication, is better
predictable, and time-nuts will figure out how to predict it.

 

Some of you heard about the other chip, the ES200, since it was reviewed
somewhere a while ago. But there is actually no plan I would know about, to
have these chips manufactured.

 

Finally, I want you to understand, that WWVB BPSK and the ES100 chip is
still a low volume product, but with a multi-million development effort. And
what we sell is a development kit, not a Chinese mass product. The price
will most likely drop over the time, but a special deal with La Crosse, to
make an affordable wall clock happen, can't by no means be the reference
price for such a development kit. In the price of 68.50 CAD (roughly 52 USD)
is also shipping included, which is not less than a minimum of 10 CAD to
destinations in the US, where most of the kits go. But this is part of our
shipping policy, to offer free shipping when the order value is over 30
bucks, and is not limited to the ES100 kits.

 

The said above is my personal opinion, and neither influenced by, nor
concerted with EverSet Technologies. 

 

Volker Forster

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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message , Club-Intern
et Clemgill writes:

>- One bit only is coded per second in each minute =>  59 bits available 
>because...
>- 59th second is silent (no phase modulation)

I belive this is wrong.

The timecode (substantially the same as DCF77) occupies only one
bit (the first) in each second, but more bits are encoded each
second after the first one, I belive for some kind of "telecontrol"
scheme.

See 4th plot from the top for (old) evidence:

http://phk.freebsd.dk/loran-c/CW/


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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Club-Internet Clemgill]

Hi, 
The Allouis phase modulation is as follows : 
- sawtooth phase shift of the 162kHz carrier with 40rad/sec slope => +/- 1 rad 
shift => +/- 6,36Hz carrier frequency shift 
- sequence of full sawtooth periods of length 100msec => frequency 10Hz
- one full period sawtooth codes a « 0 » bit
- two full periods sawtooth code a « 1 » bit
- One bit only is coded per second in each minute =>  59 bits available 
because...
- 59th second is silent (no phase modulation)

Gilles. 

> Le 5 déc. 2018 à 16:27, Poul-Henning Kamp  a écrit :
> 
> 
> In message , Magnus 
> D
> anielson writes:
> 
>> Looking at it using a Kiwi receiver just north of Stockholm, it comes in
>> nice and clean with 100 Hz sidebands from what looks like a PM whose 4th
>> sideband is nearly suppressed, so is 8th, 12/13, 21... so slightly more
>> that 4th and multiples.
> 
> It looks like both 162 and 198 has gotten more modulation after
> Loran-C disappeared, and I wonder if submarines are involved ?
> 
>> The Loran-C/Chayka plug-in does not calculate position, so already there
>> would be some fun little mini-project to attempt.
> 
> If only there were some Loran-C stations left :-)
> 
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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Graham / KE9H]

I also ordered one of the EverSet Dev Boards.
Pricey for a one IC "glop-top" package, but I would like to see how it
performs.
But, I could not duplicate quantity one for the price, either.
I also note that they sold out about mid day yesterday, so Tom's
announcement cleaned them out.

As far as the claimed 20 (ish) dB gain of the BPSK modulation scheme, if
you read the papers, it is a system gain, not just a gain from BPSK
modulation, involving error correcting coding and extended correlation
across six minute sequences.

--- Graham


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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Bob kb8tq]

Hi

The “good sound card” in this case is indeed not quite as easy to find
as one might think. Most people playing with audio rarely are concerned 
once you get past 20KHz or so. Finding a card that stays quiet past 
40 KHz can be tough. Even on a 192 KHz card, one can find anti-alias 
filters cutting in way before the hoped for ~90 KHz passband is reached. 

Bob


> On Dec 5, 2018, at 1:49 PM, Alex Pummer  wrote:
> 
> There is a problem with most pre-amplifiers and also particularly with 
> anything up font of the sampling; to get  good data the amplitude of the 
> sampled signal has to have relative high levels, comparable to microphone 
> output level -- up to 50mV -- if one wanted to use the sound cart input. 
> Additionally to that the sound card has it's internal amplifier before the A 
> to D converter. Unfortunately the "vicinity" of the 60kHz is not a quite 
> area, but it is full with noise of house hold and industrial origin. I spent 
> substantial time to investigate that noises and I found many unsuspected 
> sources. I may own household I have on tooth cleaning jet for every day use, 
> which was replaced recently wit a new one since the previous one was more 
> than fifteen years old and started to show old age problems. The new unit 
> looking from the outside was very similar to the old one except that the old 
> had one AC motor the new one has a DC motor with a switching mode power 
> supply, which is with the motor's commutator generating RF noise up to the TV 
> bands disturbing the reception and of course generating enough interference 
> to overload any sound card with pre -amplifier. I am very curious how did 
> they get that device -- the water jet-- trough the FCC test  or did not ever 
> border to do it? But that water jet  is not alone, just look your own 
> computer's including it's power supply. You no not need any very 
> sophisticated instrument just some old spectrum analyzer, which is running on 
> it's own without any computer connection, and you will what is out there, 
> sweep so between 35kHz to 100kHz use one coils as antenna with a diameter of 
> 2' to 3' and at least thirty turns. With that set up you will be able to see 
> WWVB to. If you turn the coil's axis perpendicular to the direction from your 
> position to Forth Collins in Colorado, you will see the --AM also-- modulated 
> WWVB at 60kHz. These illegal carriers with very large amplitude are able to 
> overload the input of the sound card's -- or any other --A to D converter. 
> The old WWVB receivers for the at the time just AM modulated signal used to 
> use crystal filter for good reason, which is not usable any more since the 
> frequency spreading of the phase modulation will not fit into the crystal 
> filter's band width, and the settling time of the filter's output will cause 
> one additional AM modulation.   By using some selection and very linear 
> amplification I was able to get did I get a 120mVp_p signal from WWVB and 
> compared it's phase stability  to the phase of one other 60kHz signal derived 
> from a GPS receiver with one u-blox board. If there is interest  I could 
> describe how did I do it.
> 
> 73
> 
> KJ6UHN
> 
> Alex
> 
> On 12/4/2018 8:09 PM, David G. McGaw wrote:
>> Actually, an RTL-SDR can because there is direct access to the ADC
>> available by soldering to internal pads:
>> www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-direct-sampling-mode/  That will give you 8-bit,
>> 14.4Msps.
>> 
>> But as has also been said, a good sound card sampling 24 bits at 192kHz
>> can be used.
>> 
>> David N1HAC
>> 
>> 
>> On 12/4/18 6:54 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>> 
>>> In message <2e7cf0ff-4094-2750-4874-96dfe2efe...@earthlink.net>, jimlux 
>>> writes:
>>> 
 I'm going to bet that the 8 bit RTL-SDR isn't going to work on 60kHz.
>>> I don't know about the RTL-SDR, but 8 bits will get you quite far with
>>> slow moving time signals like WWVB because you can average for minutes
>>> if you want - provided you feed the ADC a good stable clock.
>>> 
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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Alex Pummer]

There is a problem with most pre-amplifiers and also particularly with 
anything up font of the sampling; to get  good data the amplitude of the 
sampled signal has to have relative high levels, comparable to 
microphone output level -- up to 50mV -- if one wanted to use the sound 
cart input. Additionally to that the sound card has it's internal 
amplifier before the A to D converter. Unfortunately the "vicinity" of 
the 60kHz is not a quite area, but it is full with noise of house hold 
and industrial origin. I spent substantial time to investigate that 
noises and I found many unsuspected sources. I may own household I have 
on tooth cleaning jet for every day use, which was replaced recently wit 
a new one since the previous one was more than fifteen years old and 
started to show old age problems. The new unit looking from the outside 
was very similar to the old one except that the old had one AC motor the 
new one has a DC motor with a switching mode power supply, which is with 
the motor's commutator generating RF noise up to the TV bands disturbing 
the reception and of course generating enough interference to overload 
any sound card with pre -amplifier. I am very curious how did they get 
that device -- the water jet-- trough the FCC test  or did not ever 
border to do it? But that water jet  is not alone, just look your own 
computer's including it's power supply. You no not need any very 
sophisticated instrument just some old spectrum analyzer, which is 
running on it's own without any computer connection, and you will what 
is out there, sweep so between 35kHz to 100kHz use one coils as antenna 
with a diameter of 2' to 3' and at least thirty turns. With that set up 
you will be able to see WWVB to. If you turn the coil's axis 
perpendicular to the direction from your position to Forth Collins in 
Colorado, you will see the --AM also-- modulated WWVB at 60kHz. These 
illegal carriers with very large amplitude are able to overload the 
input of the sound card's -- or any other --A to D converter. The old 
WWVB receivers for the at the time just AM modulated signal used to use 
crystal filter for good reason, which is not usable any more since the 
frequency spreading of the phase modulation will not fit into the 
crystal filter's band width, and the settling time of the filter's 
output will cause one additional AM modulation.   By using some 
selection and very linear amplification I was able to get did I get a 
120mVp_p signal from WWVB and compared it's phase stability  to the 
phase of one other 60kHz signal derived from a GPS receiver with one 
u-blox board. If there is interest  I could describe how did I do it.


73

KJ6UHN

Alex

On 12/4/2018 8:09 PM, David G. McGaw wrote:

Actually, an RTL-SDR can because there is direct access to the ADC
available by soldering to internal pads:
www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-direct-sampling-mode/  That will give you 8-bit,
14.4Msps.

But as has also been said, a good sound card sampling 24 bits at 192kHz
can be used.

David N1HAC


On 12/4/18 6:54 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:


In message <2e7cf0ff-4094-2750-4874-96dfe2efe...@earthlink.net>, jimlux writes:


I'm going to bet that the 8 bit RTL-SDR isn't going to work on 60kHz.

I don't know about the RTL-SDR, but 8 bits will get you quite far with
slow moving time signals like WWVB because you can average for minutes
if you want - provided you feed the ADC a good stable clock.


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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Magnus Danielson]

Hi,

On 12/5/18 5:41 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> In message <4cf174e2-47fa-1013-b617-c66fc188f...@rubidium.dyndns.org>, Magnus 
> D
> anielson writes:
> 
 The Loran-C/Chayka plug-in does not calculate position, so already there
 would be some fun little mini-project to attempt.
>>>
>>> If only there were some Loran-C stations left :-)
>>
>> I could see the GRI 8000 Chayka constellation thought.
> 
> I have never been able to calculate a plausible position from that
> here in Denmark, I'd be very interested to see your calculations if
> you succeed.
> 

Oh, yes, I just remembered that there is a suitable receiver which I
could borrow next week.

The antenna and receiver that we setup sits in a remote location away
from our "mountain", so it's alone in the woods. As QRM-free as you can
get it in this neighborhood. I could see the GRI 8000 network, so it
should be possible to do something.

Cheers,
Magnus

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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <4cf174e2-47fa-1013-b617-c66fc188f...@rubidium.dyndns.org>, Magnus D
anielson writes:

>>> The Loran-C/Chayka plug-in does not calculate position, so already there
>>> would be some fun little mini-project to attempt.
>> 
>> If only there were some Loran-C stations left :-)
>
>I could see the GRI 8000 Chayka constellation thought.

I have never been able to calculate a plausible position from that
here in Denmark, I'd be very interested to see your calculations if
you succeed.

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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Magnus Danielson]

Hi,

On 12/5/18 4:27 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> In message , Magnus 
> D
> anielson writes:
> 
>> Looking at it using a Kiwi receiver just north of Stockholm, it comes in
>> nice and clean with 100 Hz sidebands from what looks like a PM whose 4th
>> sideband is nearly suppressed, so is 8th, 12/13, 21... so slightly more
>> that 4th and multiples.
> 
> It looks like both 162 and 198 has gotten more modulation after
> Loran-C disappeared, and I wonder if submarines are involved ?

Maybe, or there is other relevant reasons.

>> The Loran-C/Chayka plug-in does not calculate position, so already there
>> would be some fun little mini-project to attempt.
> 
> If only there were some Loran-C stations left :-)

I could see the GRI 8000 Chayka constellation thought.

Cheers,
Magnus

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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message , Magnus D
anielson writes:

>Looking at it using a Kiwi receiver just north of Stockholm, it comes in
>nice and clean with 100 Hz sidebands from what looks like a PM whose 4th
>sideband is nearly suppressed, so is 8th, 12/13, 21... so slightly more
>that 4th and multiples.

It looks like both 162 and 198 has gotten more modulation after
Loran-C disappeared, and I wonder if submarines are involved ?

>The Loran-C/Chayka plug-in does not calculate position, so already there
>would be some fun little mini-project to attempt.

If only there were some Loran-C stations left :-)

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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20181205150943.d18ce043dfd44d2731220...@kinali.ch>, Attila Kinali w
rites:

>On Tue, 04 Dec 2018 22:56:54 +
>"Poul-Henning Kamp"  wrote:
>
>> And the BPSK does improve timing.
>> 
>> If you have access to, and tracks the carrier, you can nail the
>> timing all the way down to 1/your_sample_rate.
>
>Yes, but the same is true for pure AM modulation.

No, it is not, because the AM modulation is subject to
the very narrow bandwidth of the transmission antenna which
smears the flank out over several carrier cycles.

The BPSK phase reversal is not smeared out the same way.

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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Magnus Danielson]

Hi,

On 12/5/18 3:47 PM, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 06:29:01 -0800
> "Richard (Rick) Karlquist"  wrote:
> 
>> Interesting:  isn't 162 kHz within the European
>> Long Wave Broadcast Band?  Wouldn't there be a
>> problem with QRM from these megawatt stations?
>> Excuse the naive questions; we don't have longwave
>> in the states, so no experience here.
> 
> Indeed it is. Allouis is a former LW band radio station,
> which the French used as time signal station as well[1].
> But that also means that it is a much stronger transmitter
> than e.g. DCF77 (2MW vs 50kW if wikipedia is correct)

I think I recall that they where running Allouis at half power, but then
1 MW is not all bad.

Looking at it using a Kiwi receiver just north of Stockholm, it comes in
nice and clean with 100 Hz sidebands from what looks like a PM whose 4th
sideband is nearly suppressed, so is 8th, 12/13, 21... so slightly more
that 4th and multiples.

The fun part is that I coould very quickly check this sitting with my
laptop at work, remote sensing and SDR at it's finest.

It would be fun to develop some extensions for KiwiSDR.

The Loran-C/Chayka plug-in does not calculate position, so already there
would be some fun little mini-project to attempt.

Cheers,
Magnus

>   Attila Kinali
> 
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allouis_longwave_transmitter
> 

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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Attila Kinali]

On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 06:29:01 -0800
"Richard (Rick) Karlquist"  wrote:

> Interesting:  isn't 162 kHz within the European
> Long Wave Broadcast Band?  Wouldn't there be a
> problem with QRM from these megawatt stations?
> Excuse the naive questions; we don't have longwave
> in the states, so no experience here.

Indeed it is. Allouis is a former LW band radio station,
which the French used as time signal station as well[1].
But that also means that it is a much stronger transmitter
than e.g. DCF77 (2MW vs 50kW if wikipedia is correct)

Attila Kinali

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allouis_longwave_transmitter

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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[jimlux]

On 12/5/18 6:29 AM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote:

On 12/4/2018 6:29 PM, Gilles Clement wrote:

Hi,
In France the carrier frequency is 162khz (Allouis)
Phase modulated over one minute.
Gilles.



Interesting:  isn't 162 kHz within the European
Long Wave Broadcast Band?  Wouldn't there be a
problem with QRM from these megawatt stations?
Excuse the naive questions; we don't have longwave
in the states, so no experience here.



Indeed. I was just tuning around with some of the Kiwi SDRs suggested by 
phk.  Front end selectivity or plenty of dynamic range in the ADC would 
be important.


I suppose, though, that the integration time is quite long, so from a 
"recovering the bits" standpoint, the detection bandwidth can be quite 
narrow, and your desired signal might be buried in the grass of the raw 
samples.



I also tried to see some 60kHz in the US.. no joy yet.. but I'll load up 
the client and see if I can capture some bits.




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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Bob kb8tq]

Hi

There have been several posts in this thread documenting some pretty
amazing performance for the chip. The wall clock I have here (with
what I assume is the same chip) does *way* better than anything I’ve
had before. 

Bob

> On Dec 5, 2018, at 8:56 AM, Attila Kinali  wrote:
> 
> Hi Bob,
> 
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 16:43:57 -0500
> Bob kb8tq  wrote:
> 
>> The one thing the Everest chips do indeed do is demonstrate that initial 
>> signal 
>> acquisition can be done under really awful conditions. Getting the same info 
>> off 
>> of WWVB with AM only …. not so much ….At least not so much with a receiver 
>> chip that is out on the market. 
> 
> I have not seen any measurement/demonstration of this property yet.
> And my back of the envelope calculations showed that BPSK modulation
> shouldn't give any substantial gain. Do you have any references where
> I could read up on this aquisition gain?
> 
>   Attila Kinali
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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Richard (Rick) Karlquist]

On 12/4/2018 6:29 PM, Gilles Clement wrote:

Hi,
In France the carrier frequency is 162khz (Allouis)
Phase modulated over one minute.
Gilles.



Interesting:  isn't 162 kHz within the European
Long Wave Broadcast Band?  Wouldn't there be a
problem with QRM from these megawatt stations?
Excuse the naive questions; we don't have longwave
in the states, so no experience here.

Rick

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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Attila Kinali]

Hey Poul-Henning!

On Tue, 04 Dec 2018 22:56:54 +
"Poul-Henning Kamp"  wrote:

> And the BPSK does improve timing.
> 
> If you have access to, and tracks the carrier, you can nail the
> timing all the way down to 1/your_sample_rate.

Yes, but the same is true for pure AM modulation. If you sample
and track the carrier digitally, then you get quite a bit of
processing gain due to the long integration time. My point is that
the WWVB BPSK modulation does not give (much of) an advantage
over the AM modulation because the amount of known information
is so low That is, unless I miss something and there is actually
an advantage that can be exploited.

Attila Kinali
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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Attila Kinali]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 14:44:38 -0800
jimlux  wrote:

> 17 passive components and 4 active components. plus the loopstick and 
> tuning cap. I think you'd need pretty substantial volumes to get the 
> "assembled and delivered" price below $20.

Oh. Sorry, I misunderstood. My design was never intended for mass-production,
but for a one-off board to experiment with DCF77. For that, a couple
transistors and passives are cheaper than getting some kind of chip.
While for mass production, even at "low" volumes of 1000/y, I'd immediatly
go for a small chip to do the frontend.


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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Attila Kinali]

Hi Bob,

On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 16:43:57 -0500
Bob kb8tq  wrote:

> The one thing the Everest chips do indeed do is demonstrate that initial 
> signal 
> acquisition can be done under really awful conditions. Getting the same info 
> off 
> of WWVB with AM only …. not so much ….At least not so much with a receiver 
> chip that is out on the market. 

I have not seen any measurement/demonstration of this property yet.
And my back of the envelope calculations showed that BPSK modulation
shouldn't give any substantial gain. Do you have any references where
I could read up on this aquisition gain?

Attila Kinali

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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Attila Kinali]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 21:42:41 +
Gregory Maxwell  wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 9:22 PM Attila Kinali  wrote:
> > known bits in the BPSK signal are the first 12 bits of each minute.
> 
> This seems transparently incorrect to me.  If your receiver has access
> to only a tiny chunk of signal and no idea of anything else then yes,
> but that isn't a realistic restriction.  Given that we know the signal
> is a clock all the bits are almost perfectly predictable.  Unless I'm
> confused about something about the signal.

Yes. True. Once you aquired the signal you can guess quite a few bits
of the next minute. But this gives at best 60 bits per minute of
information for the BPSK correlator. Compare this to 512 bits per _second_
of DCF77. Ie DCF77 has 500 times more information to work with and
to pull the signal out of the noise than WWVB. 

Or to put it differently: you could say the same for the AM signal.
Once you know what bits will be transmitted, you can do a matched filter
and get an increase in signal quality. Of course, AM is not as easy to
use this technique on and the gain is less, but at these low rates,
it's basically identical. 

As I explained in one of the mails I linked to, the reason why BPSK
helps with getting signal out of the noise is the pseudo-random signal
modulated ontop of it, that gives _a_lot_ of additional information
to the signal and de-correlates it from the usual jammers (single frequency
narrow band and wide-band noise-like jammers)[1]. The WWVB does not do
that. The additional spreading of the spectrum of the signal is minimal
and in the order of the spreading due to the AM modulation.

Attila Kinali


[1] This is not tied to BPSK as modulation, but works with
any modulation. The key point here is making the spectrum wide
and predictable. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_spectrum
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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[David Van Horn]

For other reasons and other bands (650m), I am very interested in narrow band 
SDR, but I have not found a platform to get started on. 


-Original Message-
From: time-nuts  On Behalf Of Poul-Henning 
Kamp
Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2018 1:31 PM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement 
; Bob kb8tq 
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board



>We’ve been chatting about how drop dead simple it is to spend a couple 
>minutes and come up with a SDR for the new modulation for …. ummm ….. 
>errr …. how many years now? :) So far not a lot has turned up.

All I can say is that people dont know what they're missing ;-)


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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[ew via time-nuts]

It just took me four days for three year old  LACross clock in Florida to sync 
up after battery change                     Bert Kehren
In a message dated 12/4/2018 4:22:17 PM Eastern Standard Time, att...@kinali.ch 
writes:

Moin,

On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 18:11:30 -0800
"Tom Van Baak"  wrote:

> At long last, a complete WWVB 60 kHz BPSK dev board is available:
> 
> https://universal-solder.ca/product/everset-es100-cob-wwvb-60khz-bpsk-receiver-kit-with-2-antennas/
> 
> Note it includes the antenna(s). Also has links to documentation.


As this is becoming a topic again, and the EverSet people still
claim that the BPSK modulation of WWVB makes it more resilient
to jamming and easier to receive, I would like to restate
what I've written some years ago [1,2]:

BPSK by itself does not improve timing. At most it improves reception
by having a constant power envelope. But in case of WWVB, where
the AM modulation is still kept, this is not the case. The phase
changes do not help reception at all. In order to help reception,
one needs to send a _known_ bit string in order for a corrolator
in the receiver to pick the signal out of the noise. The only
known bits in the BPSK signal are the first 12 bits of each minute.
Compare this to DCF77 which encodes 512 bits every _second_.
Ie while DCF77 gets something like 10-20dB  easier to pick out
of noise, but when using BPSK, WWVB gets... uhmm..  zero improvement.

All the BPSK modulation of WWVB does is
1) Make the signal unusable for any carrier phase tracking receiver
2) Add a second type of bit stream onto the signal for additional
  information to be encoded
3) Generate a revenue stream for companies who sell new WWVB receivers.

For more information, read [2]

            Attila Kinali

[1] https://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2013-July/060456.html
[2] https://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2013-July/060471.html


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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[John Moran, Scawby Design]

Good morning

I agree that 1deg is overkill but I was simply extrapolating one extra decade 
from BOB kb8tq's "backing off a bit" comment where he got down to 10deg. :-)

10MHz is an obvious sample rate - sorry, that fell into a blind spot here!

I think I will get distracted over Christmas sketching out some designs ...

Thanks - John

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Sent: 4 December, 2018 11:03 PM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement 
; John Moran, Scawby Design 
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board


In message 
mailto:am0pr03mb4129fbd0922805fc14b8cefde4...@am0pr03mb4129.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com>>,
 "John Moran, Scawby Design"
 writes:

>However, fast A-Ds are not particularly cheap and you would need circa
>50MHz sample rate to resolve 1deg of the carrier, and TVB has already
>stated that there are no time benefits to BPSK, so this is all just an
>interesting technical exercise, isn't it?

I admit it would be interesting to do the allan variance on it, but measuring 
the carrier to 1 degree in every single cycle is way overkill.

1 MHz sampling rate is fine, but go for 5 or 10 MHz so you can drive the ADC 
directly from your house-standard.

And BPSK *does* improve the timing, because you can very precisely measure when 
the change of phase happens, and it since it happens at a carrier zero-crossing 
you can filter it down to +/- sample.

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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

Try this:

https://sdr.hu/

Pick a european receiver, most of them have antennas that
will do VLF, otherwise pick another.

Enter 162 KHz

Press the two arrows pointing towards each other, twice

Pick extension "iq_display"

Change from "density" to "points"

Click on "160"

See live phase modulation

Change frequency to 198 kHz

Change frequency to 77.5 kHz

...

Then, if you want to really play:

https://github.com/hcab14/kiwiclient

allows you to capture and save the raw IQ data.

If necessary read:

https://www.dspguide.com/

Now, stop talking and start coding :-)

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[time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[gandalfg8--- via time-nuts]

I feel guilty now:-)
Obviously MSF is strong up here but I was able to receive it from Rugby when I 
first moved north using a directional LF antenna and was under the impression 
coverage was still ok throughout the UK, although it seems I was wrong on that.

The French station is TDF transmitted from Allouis on 162KHz.It previously also 
carried an AM broadcast station, although that was shut down some time ago 
which simplifies things a bit, and it comes in here at a similar level to MSF 
as it's much higher power to start with.

Don't rule out Droitwich on 198KHz though, that's rubidium rather than caesium 
controlled but still very useful as an off air reference.There's a bit of a 
traceability issue up here due to the use of local repeaters but I still keep a 
Halcyon PFS1 as a backup and for the built in DDS.
Nigel GM8PZR

Hi Nigel

I moved from Warwickshire to west Sussex  south of the downs 20 years ago
and all was OK But since it moved I have not bean able to use the 60 Khz
reference  I am thinking of setting up a reference to use the one in France
I think it is 192 Khz 
And then I can do a frequency difference between the 2 
Also Looking for a rabid 

Best regards Paul 
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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message 
,
 "John Moran, Scawby Design"
 writes:

>I think I will get distracted over Christmas sketching out some designs ...

Grab som I+Q samples from a kiwisdr somewhere and start playing with
signals instead.

If you like it, start making hardware.

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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[jimlux]

On 12/4/18 8:09 PM, David G. McGaw wrote:

Actually, an RTL-SDR can because there is direct access to the ADC
available by soldering to internal pads:
www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-direct-sampling-mode/  That will give you 8-bit,
14.4Msps.



I'm not sure a 8bit ADC gives enough dynamic range, even after 
downconversion.

The RTL-SDR is a pretty noisy receiver, too.



But as has also been said, a good sound card sampling 24 bits at 192kHz
can be used.

David N1HAC


On 12/4/18 6:54 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:


In message <2e7cf0ff-4094-2750-4874-96dfe2efe...@earthlink.net>, jimlux writes:


I'm going to bet that the 8 bit RTL-SDR isn't going to work on 60kHz.

I don't know about the RTL-SDR, but 8 bits will get you quite far with
slow moving time signals like WWVB because you can average for minutes
if you want - provided you feed the ADC a good stable clock.






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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[David G. McGaw]

Maybe the link came through the list OK?


On 12/4/18 11:16 PM, David G. McGaw wrote:
> Sorry about that garbled link.  Blame Dartmouth's over-zealous IT. Just
> look for "rtl-sdr direct sampling mode" at rtl-sdr dot com.
>
>
> On 12/4/18 11:09 PM, David G. McGaw wrote:
>> Actually, an RTL-SDR can because there is direct access to the ADC
>> available by soldering to internal pads:
>> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=www.rtl-sdr.com%2Frtl-sdr-direct-sampling-mode%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cdavid.g.mcgaw%40dartmouth.edu%7C60246767b871406285c808d65a68a8a7%7C995b093648d640e5a31ebf689ec9446f%7C0%7C0%7C636795802882698879&sdata=qu9IZ7jrigjcDqD%2B1d9daSfIHttr3Nn%2Fh0L5mg%2FTsbg%3D&reserved=0
>>   That will give you 8-bit,
>> 14.4Msps.
>>
>> But as has also been said, a good sound card sampling 24 bits at 192kHz
>> can be used.
>>
>> David N1HAC
>>
>>
>> On 12/4/18 6:54 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>> 
>>> In message <2e7cf0ff-4094-2750-4874-96dfe2efe...@earthlink.net>, jimlux 
>>> writes:
>>>
 I'm going to bet that the 8 bit RTL-SDR isn't going to work on 60kHz.
>>> I don't know about the RTL-SDR, but 8 bits will get you quite far with
>>> slow moving time signals like WWVB because you can average for minutes
>>> if you want - provided you feed the ADC a good stable clock.
>>>
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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[David G. McGaw]

Sorry about that garbled link.  Blame Dartmouth's over-zealous IT. Just 
look for "rtl-sdr direct sampling mode" at rtl-sdr dot com.


On 12/4/18 11:09 PM, David G. McGaw wrote:
> Actually, an RTL-SDR can because there is direct access to the ADC
> available by soldering to internal pads:
> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=www.rtl-sdr.com%2Frtl-sdr-direct-sampling-mode%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cdavid.g.mcgaw%40dartmouth.edu%7C26d18a151e124b336e5008d65a679402%7C995b093648d640e5a31ebf689ec9446f%7C0%7C0%7C636795798255645762&sdata=k7qbMd66xKxoL28CemtFlw5cbhLHMgU01NZlOnfY7Lw%3D&reserved=0
>   That will give you 8-bit,
> 14.4Msps.
>
> But as has also been said, a good sound card sampling 24 bits at 192kHz
> can be used.
>
> David N1HAC
>
>
> On 12/4/18 6:54 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> 
>> In message <2e7cf0ff-4094-2750-4874-96dfe2efe...@earthlink.net>, jimlux 
>> writes:
>>
>>> I'm going to bet that the 8 bit RTL-SDR isn't going to work on 60kHz.
>> I don't know about the RTL-SDR, but 8 bits will get you quite far with
>> slow moving time signals like WWVB because you can average for minutes
>> if you want - provided you feed the ADC a good stable clock.
>>
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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[David G. McGaw]

Any of the RSPs from SDRPlay will cover it and they are great units, 
starting at $109 US.  I am literally using an RSP1A right now.

David N1AHC


On 12/4/18 9:08 PM, W7SLS wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Great discussion on this and other topics here.
>
> Just looked up the specs for the SDRPlay RSP2:
>   1 kHz to 2 GHz.
> Should be fine for 60 kHz.
>
> Now to look closer at previous posts for 60 kHz antennas, how to get raw data 
> out of the RSP2 (other than pretty pictures), and see where it fits on the 
> project list.
>
> Regards,
> Scott W7SLS
>
>
>> On Dec 4, 2018, at 4:04 PM, Iain Young  wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 04/12/18 23:08, jimlux wrote:
>>> On 12/4/18 2:52 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
 
 In message <20181204224816.bfef2926d942b52db8061...@kinali.ch>, Attila 
 Kinali writes:

> On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 13:12:48 -0800
> jimlux  wrote:
>
>> I maintain that it's the lack of a cheap RF front end that is the sticky 
>> point.
 Then you have misunderstood how little you actually need.
>>> I should clarify - "cheap *off-the-shelf* catalog RF front end"
>>> In my old codger-ness with limited free time, I'm just not wild about 
>>> wiring up circuits from scratch.  And, I like to see other people duplicate 
>>> what I've done, so I've tended to move towards "I can buy that widget for 
>>> $20-100" kinds of things.
>>> Hence my 4 channel RTL-SDR+beagle phased array.
>>> I'm going to bet that the 8 bit RTL-SDR isn't going to work on 60kHz.
>> Probably not - Even the Funcube dongle down that low doesn't pick up
>> MSF from here in the UK, and at 66kHz I get BBC Radio 4 (198/3=66..)
>>
>> However, my main SDR PC has a 192kHz soundcard. Feed that with my
>> LF active antenna, and MSF, DCF, amongst others come booming in.
>>
>> Don't discount an active antenna plus a soundcard or ADC that will
>> sample 192kHz
>>
>>
>> Iain
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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[David G. McGaw]

Actually, an RTL-SDR can because there is direct access to the ADC 
available by soldering to internal pads: 
www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-direct-sampling-mode/  That will give you 8-bit, 
14.4Msps.

But as has also been said, a good sound card sampling 24 bits at 192kHz 
can be used.

David N1HAC


On 12/4/18 6:54 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> In message <2e7cf0ff-4094-2750-4874-96dfe2efe...@earthlink.net>, jimlux 
> writes:
>
>> I'm going to bet that the 8 bit RTL-SDR isn't going to work on 60kHz.
> I don't know about the RTL-SDR, but 8 bits will get you quite far with
> slow moving time signals like WWVB because you can average for minutes
> if you want - provided you feed the ADC a good stable clock.
>

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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[W7SLS]

Hello,

Great discussion on this and other topics here.

Just looked up the specs for the SDRPlay RSP2:
1 kHz to 2 GHz.
Should be fine for 60 kHz.

Now to look closer at previous posts for 60 kHz antennas, how to get raw data 
out of the RSP2 (other than pretty pictures), and see where it fits on the 
project list.

Regards,
Scott W7SLS


> On Dec 4, 2018, at 4:04 PM, Iain Young  wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 04/12/18 23:08, jimlux wrote:
>> On 12/4/18 2:52 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>> 
>>> In message <20181204224816.bfef2926d942b52db8061...@kinali.ch>, Attila 
>>> Kinali writes:
>>> 
 On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 13:12:48 -0800
 jimlux  wrote:
 
> I maintain that it's the lack of a cheap RF front end that is the sticky 
> point.
>>> 
>>> Then you have misunderstood how little you actually need.
>> I should clarify - "cheap *off-the-shelf* catalog RF front end"
>> In my old codger-ness with limited free time, I'm just not wild about wiring 
>> up circuits from scratch.  And, I like to see other people duplicate what 
>> I've done, so I've tended to move towards "I can buy that widget for 
>> $20-100" kinds of things.
>> Hence my 4 channel RTL-SDR+beagle phased array.
>> I'm going to bet that the 8 bit RTL-SDR isn't going to work on 60kHz. 
> 
> Probably not - Even the Funcube dongle down that low doesn't pick up
> MSF from here in the UK, and at 66kHz I get BBC Radio 4 (198/3=66..)
> 
> However, my main SDR PC has a 192kHz soundcard. Feed that with my
> LF active antenna, and MSF, DCF, amongst others come booming in.
> 
> Don't discount an active antenna plus a soundcard or ADC that will
> sample 192kHz
> 
> 
> Iain
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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Gilles Clement]

Hi,
In France the carrier frequency is 162khz (Allouis)
Phase modulated over one minute.
Gilles.

Envoyé de mon iPad

> Le 5 déc. 2018 à 00:57, Paul Bicknell  a écrit :
> 
> Hi Nigel 
> 
> I moved from Warwickshire to west Sussex  south of the downs 20 years ago
> and all was OK But since it moved I have not bean able to use the 60 Khz
> reference  I am thinking of setting up a reference to use the one in France
> I think it is 192 Khz 
> And then I can do a frequency difference between the 2 
> Also Looking for a rabid 
> 
> Best regards Paul 
> 
> -Original Message-
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> gandalfg8--- via time-nuts
> Sent: 04 December 2018 12:12
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> Cc: gandal...@aol.com
> Subject: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> It was shifted over 11 years ago, very obligingly timed to follow my move
> from the South East to Scotland:-),
> 
> so I suspect any resulting propogational changes would have been well
> documented by now.
> 
> Nigel GM8PZR
> 
> Hi thank you Bob for the mail 
> 
> Do you realise the 60 Khz Transmitter in the UK was moved from Rugby in the
> centre of England north by more than 200 miles 
> Paul 
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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Paul Bicknell]

Hi Nigel 

I moved from Warwickshire to west Sussex  south of the downs 20 years ago
and all was OK But since it moved I have not bean able to use the 60 Khz
reference  I am thinking of setting up a reference to use the one in France
I think it is 192 Khz 
And then I can do a frequency difference between the 2 
Also Looking for a rabid 

Best regards Paul 

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gandalfg8--- via time-nuts
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Subject: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

Hi Paul,

It was shifted over 11 years ago, very obligingly timed to follow my move
from the South East to Scotland:-),

so I suspect any resulting propogational changes would have been well
documented by now.

Nigel GM8PZR

Hi thank you Bob for the mail 

Do you realise the 60 Khz Transmitter in the UK was moved from Rugby in the
centre of England north by more than 200 miles 
Paul 
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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Iain Young]

On 04/12/18 23:08, jimlux wrote:

On 12/4/18 2:52 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:


In message <20181204224816.bfef2926d942b52db8061...@kinali.ch>, Attila 
Kinali writes:



On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 13:12:48 -0800
jimlux  wrote:

I maintain that it's the lack of a cheap RF front end that is the 
sticky point.


Then you have misunderstood how little you actually need.


I should clarify - "cheap *off-the-shelf* catalog RF front end"

In my old codger-ness with limited free time, I'm just not wild about 
wiring up circuits from scratch.  And, I like to see other people 
duplicate what I've done, so I've tended to move towards "I can buy that 
widget for $20-100" kinds of things.


Hence my 4 channel RTL-SDR+beagle phased array.

I'm going to bet that the 8 bit RTL-SDR isn't going to work on 60kHz. 


Probably not - Even the Funcube dongle down that low doesn't pick up
MSF from here in the UK, and at 66kHz I get BBC Radio 4 (198/3=66..)

However, my main SDR PC has a 192kHz soundcard. Feed that with my
LF active antenna, and MSF, DCF, amongst others come booming in.

Don't discount an active antenna plus a soundcard or ADC that will
sample 192kHz


Iain

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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <2e7cf0ff-4094-2750-4874-96dfe2efe...@earthlink.net>, jimlux writes:

>I'm going to bet that the 8 bit RTL-SDR isn't going to work on 60kHz.

I don't know about the RTL-SDR, but 8 bits will get you quite far with
slow moving time signals like WWVB because you can average for minutes
if you want - provided you feed the ADC a good stable clock.

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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[jimlux]

On 12/4/18 2:52 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:


In message <20181204224816.bfef2926d942b52db8061...@kinali.ch>, Attila Kinali 
writes:


On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 13:12:48 -0800
jimlux  wrote:


I maintain that it's the lack of a cheap RF front end that is the sticky point.


Then you have misunderstood how little you actually need.


I should clarify - "cheap *off-the-shelf* catalog RF front end"

In my old codger-ness with limited free time, I'm just not wild about 
wiring up circuits from scratch.  And, I like to see other people 
duplicate what I've done, so I've tended to move towards "I can buy that 
widget for $20-100" kinds of things.


Hence my 4 channel RTL-SDR+beagle phased array.

I'm going to bet that the 8 bit RTL-SDR isn't going to work on 60kHz.


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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[jimlux]

On 12/4/18 2:28 PM, John Moran, Scawby Design wrote:

I'm a little puzzled as to why people keep calling 60kHz - 'RF'. Many Hi-Fi 
audio amplifiers go higher than that.

As for an 'RF' front end, there are dozens of off-the-shelf op-amps that can 
amplify the signal from a tuned ferrite rod aerial sufficiently to then feed 
into a decent A-D and then a micro.


yes, and someone has to pick one of them and put it on a board, with a 
voltage regulator and other parts.


It's not complex, but it's also not something you can buy off the shelf, 
plug into your RPi and start coding up the filter.





Analog Devices have A-Ds that digitize the carrier of 12GHz RF signals so I 
think we should be able to manage 60kHz ... the problem then being to process 
the resulting data stream.


I don't think the ADC is the challenge - a decent tuned front end with 
some gain so that the signal is around a volt, and you can feed the 
onchip ADC of most microcontrollers and you'll be all set.


If you had a wide open front end, with AM broadcast, all manner of RFI, 
and so forth, you'd probably need more bits.  But a few kHz sample rate 
would probably work, if your sample and hold was good - if it isn't then 
maybe a couple hundred kHz sample rate.


Easy to do with most microcontrollers on an off the shelf board.





However, fast A-Ds are not particularly cheap and you would need circa 50MHz 
sample rate to resolve 1deg of the carrier, and TVB has already stated that 
there are no time benefits to BPSK, so this is all just an interesting 
technical exercise, isn't it?


Your sample rate doesn't have to be anywhere near the resolution - what 
you do is fit a sine wave to the samples you have and you can easily get 
sub-sample accuracy.  The important thing is the SNR.   Higher sample 
rates do help, because they basically give you that Sqrt(N) improvement 
in SNR over a single sample.



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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message 
,
 "John Moran, Scawby Design"
 writes:

>However, fast A-Ds are not particularly cheap and you would need
>circa 50MHz sample rate to resolve 1deg of the carrier, and TVB has
>already stated that there are no time benefits to BPSK, so this is
>all just an interesting technical exercise, isn't it?

I admit it would be interesting to do the allan variance on it,
but measuring the carrier to 1 degree in every single cycle is
way overkill.

1 MHz sampling rate is fine, but go for 5 or 10 MHz so you can
drive the ADC directly from your house-standard.

And BPSK *does* improve the timing, because you can very precisely
measure when the change of phase happens, and it since it happens
at a carrier zero-crossing you can filter it down to +/- sample.

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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20181204222100.293dc3259cf1d8683daec...@kinali.ch>, Attila Kinali 
writes:

>BPSK by itself does not improve timing. At most it improves reception
>by having a constant power envelope. But in case of WWVB, where
>the AM modulation is still kept, this is not the case. The phase
>changes do not help reception at all. In order to help reception,
>one needs to send a _known_ bit string in order for a corrolator
>in the receiver to pick the signal out of the noise. 

They do that in the "long" sequence, read their spec.

The fact that it is one out of 100-some known sequences does not
significantly change that situation.

And the BPSK does improve timing.

If you have access to, and tracks the carrier, you can nail the
timing all the way down to 1/your_sample_rate.

Been there, done that with DCF77 no big deal.

Even the weird phase-modulation of RDF and BBC on 198kHz can be
nailed down very precisely that way.

But the crucial thing is:  You need to digitize the carrier.

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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20181204224816.bfef2926d942b52db8061...@kinali.ch>, Attila Kinali 
writes:

>On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 13:12:48 -0800
>jimlux  wrote:
>
>> I maintain that it's the lack of a cheap RF front end that is the sticky 
>> point.

Then you have misunderstood how little you actually need.

This is the "front-end" I ran most of my VLF experiments with:

http://phk.freebsd.dk/loran-c/Antenna/

A single AD797 and via 10m of coax directly into an ADC.

Modern capacitor-based ADCs work fine with even very small signals,
many can be run with sub-volt VREF and still be perfectly happy.

There really isn't anything to it...

The only reason I'm not active in VLF any more is that I have to
choose between VLF reception or my robotic lawn-mowers, and with
5000m² of lawn, that is not even a close call.

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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[John Moran, Scawby Design]

I'm a little puzzled as to why people keep calling 60kHz - 'RF'. Many Hi-Fi 
audio amplifiers go higher than that.

As for an 'RF' front end, there are dozens of off-the-shelf op-amps that can 
amplify the signal from a tuned ferrite rod aerial sufficiently to then feed 
into a decent A-D and then a micro.

Analog Devices have A-Ds that digitize the carrier of 12GHz RF signals so I 
think we should be able to manage 60kHz ... the problem then being to process 
the resulting data stream.

However, fast A-Ds are not particularly cheap and you would need circa 50MHz 
sample rate to resolve 1deg of the carrier, and TVB has already stated that 
there are no time benefits to BPSK, so this is all just an interesting 
technical exercise, isn't it?

John Moran
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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[jimlux]

On 12/4/18 1:48 PM, Attila Kinali wrote:

On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 13:12:48 -0800
jimlux  wrote:


I maintain that it's the lack of a cheap RF front end that is the sticky
point.


Doing a 2-3 stage transistor based amplifier should give the signal
enough gain to be sampled with the ADC of a uC. I have such a design
sitting around, that I did a couple of years back for DCF77, but never
got around to actually built it (see attachment).

It is meant to be run from 4V, so that one can use an unstable/noisy
5V source with an 4V LDO and should give ~70dB of total gain. I used
BC547 in the simulation, but any NPN with decent h_fe and f_t should
do (eg 2N, 2N3904,...). The 2N5484 is a bit harder to replace,
as I selected it for its low V_th and narrow specified V_th range.

All that is needed for this to work is a tuned antenna, ie a ferrite
rod with a capcitor on it that is approximately tuned to 60/77.5kHz.

Attila Kinali




17 passive components and 4 active components. plus the loopstick and 
tuning cap. I think you'd need pretty substantial volumes to get the 
"assembled and delivered" price below $20.


I usually use the rule of thumb that the BOM cost has to be 1/5th to 
1/10th the retail price.  So $2.
You might get there.. the MMBF5484 is 12 cents in qty 100. I assume you 
can find a NPN for less than 10 cents - The LDO might be the most 
expensive part.






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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Bob kb8tq]

Hi

Given the large “fade” of WWVB over a 24 hour period (it’s not always ground 
wave ….) most decent receivers in the past have run a front end with AGC on it. 
Indeed 24 bit ADC’s ( > 16 bit ENOB)  are out there for not a massive amount of 
money.  

It is a bit unclear just how much fade you need to compensate for until you get 
past the “that’s enough” point. There are a number of nasty points in the 
country 
you would need to check out. Since you also are trying to deal with an enormous 
amount of “crud” at the same time, there may not be an exact answer. 

Bob

> On Dec 4, 2018, at 4:48 PM, Attila Kinali  wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 13:12:48 -0800
> jimlux  wrote:
> 
>> I maintain that it's the lack of a cheap RF front end that is the sticky 
>> point.
> 
> Doing a 2-3 stage transistor based amplifier should give the signal
> enough gain to be sampled with the ADC of a uC. I have such a design
> sitting around, that I did a couple of years back for DCF77, but never
> got around to actually built it (see attachment). 
> 
> It is meant to be run from 4V, so that one can use an unstable/noisy
> 5V source with an 4V LDO and should give ~70dB of total gain. I used
> BC547 in the simulation, but any NPN with decent h_fe and f_t should
> do (eg 2N, 2N3904,...). The 2N5484 is a bit harder to replace,
> as I selected it for its low V_th and narrow specified V_th range.
> 
> All that is needed for this to work is a tuned antenna, ie a ferrite
> rod with a capcitor on it that is approximately tuned to 60/77.5kHz.
> 
>   Attila Kinali
> 
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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Attila Kinali]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 13:12:48 -0800
jimlux  wrote:

> I maintain that it's the lack of a cheap RF front end that is the sticky 
> point.

Doing a 2-3 stage transistor based amplifier should give the signal
enough gain to be sampled with the ADC of a uC. I have such a design
sitting around, that I did a couple of years back for DCF77, but never
got around to actually built it (see attachment). 

It is meant to be run from 4V, so that one can use an unstable/noisy
5V source with an 4V LDO and should give ~70dB of total gain. I used
BC547 in the simulation, but any NPN with decent h_fe and f_t should
do (eg 2N, 2N3904,...). The 2N5484 is a bit harder to replace,
as I selected it for its low V_th and narrow specified V_th range.

All that is needed for this to work is a tuned antenna, ie a ferrite
rod with a capcitor on it that is approximately tuned to 60/77.5kHz.

Attila Kinali

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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Bob kb8tq]

Hi

Again to re-go over what has been said in the past:

Unless they start filling the “extra” bits on the WWVB signal with something 
(are they doing this ) the whole modulation pattern is predictable. Once
you know what time it is “now” what happens from then on can all be calculated. 
I believe TVB has already done this part of it.

A “proper” receiver might take the AM and PM modulation signals and generate 
an “expected” signal from them once the time now is known. Correlating against 
that signal would seem to be the way to get this done. 

The one thing the Everest chips do indeed do is demonstrate that initial signal 
acquisition can be done under really awful conditions. Getting the same info 
off 
of WWVB with AM only …. not so much ….At least not so much with a receiver 
chip that is out on the market. 

Bob

> On Dec 4, 2018, at 4:21 PM, Attila Kinali  wrote:
> 
> Moin,
> 
> On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 18:11:30 -0800
> "Tom Van Baak"  wrote:
> 
>> At long last, a complete WWVB 60 kHz BPSK dev board is available:
>> 
>> https://universal-solder.ca/product/everset-es100-cob-wwvb-60khz-bpsk-receiver-kit-with-2-antennas/
>> 
>> Note it includes the antenna(s). Also has links to documentation.
> 
> 
> As this is becoming a topic again, and the EverSet people still
> claim that the BPSK modulation of WWVB makes it more resilient
> to jamming and easier to receive, I would like to restate
> what I've written some years ago [1,2]:
> 
> BPSK by itself does not improve timing. At most it improves reception
> by having a constant power envelope. But in case of WWVB, where
> the AM modulation is still kept, this is not the case. The phase
> changes do not help reception at all. In order to help reception,
> one needs to send a _known_ bit string in order for a corrolator
> in the receiver to pick the signal out of the noise. The only
> known bits in the BPSK signal are the first 12 bits of each minute.
> Compare this to DCF77 which encodes 512 bits every _second_.
> Ie while DCF77 gets something like 10-20dB  easier to pick out
> of noise, but when using BPSK, WWVB gets... uhmm..  zero improvement.
> 
> All the BPSK modulation of WWVB does is
> 1) Make the signal unusable for any carrier phase tracking receiver
> 2) Add a second type of bit stream onto the signal for additional
>   information to be encoded
> 3) Generate a revenue stream for companies who sell new WWVB receivers.
> 
> For more information, read [2]
> 
>   Attila Kinali
> 
> [1] https://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2013-July/060456.html
> [2] https://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2013-July/060471.html
> 
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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 9:22 PM Attila Kinali  wrote:
> known bits in the BPSK signal are the first 12 bits of each minute.

This seems transparently incorrect to me.  If your receiver has access
to only a tiny chunk of signal and no idea of anything else then yes,
but that isn't a realistic restriction.  Given that we know the signal
is a clock all the bits are almost perfectly predictable.  Unless I'm
confused about something about the signal.

The result is that you have some additional delay in learning the
carrier phase-- since an optimal decoder will make use of both past
and future signal to predict the bitstream, but that isn't really any
challenge against the PLL time constants that would be used.

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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message , Bob kb8tq writes:


>If you want to get a “Time Nuts” grade solution, microseconds are indeed the 
>units to worry about.

One of the reasons why I play with VLF is to have a sanity-check on GPS, and 
depending on your application
even +/- 100msec can be sufficient there.

But for anything more than that, you *have* to get hold of the carrier and not 
just the modulation.


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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Bob kb8tq]

Hi

So, backing off a bit:

Assuming you are going to compare two data points a bit over 24 hours apart 
(100,000 seconds):

Accuracy of reading pairResult pp   Result 
sci

100 ms  1 ppm   1x10^-6
10 ms   100 ppb 1x10^-7
1 ms10 ppb  1x10^-8
100 us  1 ppb   1x10^-9
10 us   100 ppt 1x10^-10
1 us10 ppt  
1x10^-11

At 100 ms, you need to go for a *lot* of days before you get out of the “that’s 
interesting ….. yawn …”
category. Since it’s a pair you are concerned about, each might have a 50 ms 
error to get you to the
100 ms total. It’s still plenty good enough for a typical wall clock. 

At one day you don’t cross into “as good as a free running Rb” territory until 
you get below 100 us. 
That’s also the point you hit roughly the typical GPS module’s performance at 1 
second. 
If you want to get a “Time Nuts” grade solution, microseconds are indeed the 
units to worry about.

Assuming you hit can 100 us per pair, and want to get into the 1 to 10 ppt 
range, you are out around 
100 days for each “run”. That seems like a long time to wait. 

Since one period is 16.667 us, hitting well below 100 us implies keeping track 
of which cycle is which. Getting
to 10 us is just above a 180 degree phase error and 1 us is still above 10 
degrees. 

I’d say that for a practical “Time Nut" device … you need the equivalent of 
cycle tracking at the very least. 

Indeed, as mentioned by … somebody …. this all can be done and … ummm …. has 
been done for similar
signals by …errr …somebody :)

Bob

> On Dec 4, 2018, at 3:08 PM, David G. McGaw  
> wrote:
> 
> That is the specified jitter.  They have also said in communications that it 
> has about 50mS resolution.  That is as close as they are willing to say a 
> system can be synchronized with it.  Perhaps someone will discover a clever 
> way to enhance that.
> 
> BTW, I have been told it has also been successfully tested for lock in 
> Brazil.  Is there anyone in Australia want to give it a try?  Perth is almost 
> directly opposite Fort Collins.  :-)
> 
> David N1HAC
> 
> 
> On 12/4/18 2:00 PM, Hal Murray wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> As was said, IRQ delay is +/-100 mS from the second edge, hardly what a
> Time-Nut is looking for.
> 
> 
> 
> There is no problem with a delay as long as it is constant.  If I know what it
> is, then I can correct for it.
> 
> The problem is the noise/jitter on the delay.  I'm sure somebody will have
> data soon.
> 
> 
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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Attila Kinali]

Moin,

On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 18:11:30 -0800
"Tom Van Baak"  wrote:

> At long last, a complete WWVB 60 kHz BPSK dev board is available:
> 
> https://universal-solder.ca/product/everset-es100-cob-wwvb-60khz-bpsk-receiver-kit-with-2-antennas/
> 
> Note it includes the antenna(s). Also has links to documentation.


As this is becoming a topic again, and the EverSet people still
claim that the BPSK modulation of WWVB makes it more resilient
to jamming and easier to receive, I would like to restate
what I've written some years ago [1,2]:

BPSK by itself does not improve timing. At most it improves reception
by having a constant power envelope. But in case of WWVB, where
the AM modulation is still kept, this is not the case. The phase
changes do not help reception at all. In order to help reception,
one needs to send a _known_ bit string in order for a corrolator
in the receiver to pick the signal out of the noise. The only
known bits in the BPSK signal are the first 12 bits of each minute.
Compare this to DCF77 which encodes 512 bits every _second_.
Ie while DCF77 gets something like 10-20dB  easier to pick out
of noise, but when using BPSK, WWVB gets... uhmm..  zero improvement.

All the BPSK modulation of WWVB does is
1) Make the signal unusable for any carrier phase tracking receiver
2) Add a second type of bit stream onto the signal for additional
   information to be encoded
3) Generate a revenue stream for companies who sell new WWVB receivers.

For more information, read [2]

Attila Kinali

[1] https://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2013-July/060456.html
[2] https://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2013-July/060471.html


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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[jimlux]

On 12/4/18 12:21 PM, Bob kb8tq wrote:

Hi

We’ve been chatting about how drop dead simple it is to spend a couple minutes 
and come
up with a SDR for the new modulation for …. ummm ….. errr …. how many years 
now? :)
So far not a lot has turned up.


if someone will digitize the signal at some reasonable data rate and bit 
depth and send me some minutes of data, I'll see if I can code up a 
simple decoder that would run on a low end processor.


It's just BPSK at 1 bit/second, after all.

I maintain that it's the lack of a cheap RF front end that is the sticky 
point.





Bob


On Dec 4, 2018, at 3:14 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp  wrote:


In message <63462681-f5d7-0282-ef5b-82e8332d0...@dartmouth.edu>, "David G. 
McGaw" writes:


BTW, I have been told it has also been successfully tested for lock in Brazil.  
Is there anyone in Australia want to give it a try?  Perth is almost directly 
opposite Fort Collins.  :-)


Write a WWVB extension to KiwiSDR so you can try it all over the world ?


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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

>We’ve been chatting about how drop dead simple it is to spend a couple minutes 
>and come
>up with a SDR for the new modulation for …. ummm ….. errr …. how many years 
>now? :)
>So far not a lot has turned up.

All I can say is that people dont know what they're missing ;-)


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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Bob kb8tq]

Hi

We’ve been chatting about how drop dead simple it is to spend a couple minutes 
and come
up with a SDR for the new modulation for …. ummm ….. errr …. how many years 
now? :)
So far not a lot has turned up.

Bob

> On Dec 4, 2018, at 3:14 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp  wrote:
> 
> 
> In message <63462681-f5d7-0282-ef5b-82e8332d0...@dartmouth.edu>, "David G. 
> McGaw" writes:
> 
>> BTW, I have been told it has also been successfully tested for lock in 
>> Brazil.  Is there anyone in Australia want to give it a try?  Perth is 
>> almost directly opposite Fort Collins.  :-)
> 
> Write a WWVB extension to KiwiSDR so you can try it all over the world ?
> 
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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <63462681-f5d7-0282-ef5b-82e8332d0...@dartmouth.edu>, "David G. 
McGaw" writes:

>BTW, I have been told it has also been successfully tested for lock in Brazil. 
> Is there anyone in Australia want to give it a try?  Perth is almost directly 
>opposite Fort Collins.  :-)

Write a WWVB extension to KiwiSDR so you can try it all over the world ?


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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[David G. McGaw]

That is the specified jitter.  They have also said in communications that it 
has about 50mS resolution.  That is as close as they are willing to say a 
system can be synchronized with it.  Perhaps someone will discover a clever way 
to enhance that.

BTW, I have been told it has also been successfully tested for lock in Brazil.  
Is there anyone in Australia want to give it a try?  Perth is almost directly 
opposite Fort Collins.  :-)

David N1HAC


On 12/4/18 2:00 PM, Hal Murray wrote:




As was said, IRQ delay is +/-100 mS from the second edge, hardly what a
Time-Nut is looking for.



There is no problem with a delay as long as it is constant.  If I know what it
is, then I can correct for it.

The problem is the noise/jitter on the delay.  I'm sure somebody will have
data soon.




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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Hal Murray]

> As was said, IRQ delay is +/-100 mS from the second edge, hardly what a
> Time-Nut is looking for. 

There is no problem with a delay as long as it is constant.  If I know what it 
is, then I can correct for it.

The problem is the noise/jitter on the delay.  I'm sure somebody will have 
data soon.


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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <6718818b-5243-8ad1-ddbd-6115fcdb6...@earthlink.net>, jimlux writes:

>On 12/4/18 9:00 AM, Tim Shoppa wrote:
>> Because of the Q of WWVB's transmit antenna (at least 300 by my back of the
>> envelope estimates), I don't think we could ever claim a WWVB PPS edge
>> sharper than 5 milliseconds and that might be optimistic.
>
>Sure you can.. you do a matched filter to the waveform, so you're not 
>just looking at a single zero crossing or cycle.  Getting fraction of a 
>degree phase accuracy from a strong signal is entirely possible.

See also:  Loran-C ?

And with the new phase modulation, you can do get down in low
microseconds at tau=1, but the atmosphere will ruin longer taus.

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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message 
, Adrian Godwin writes:

>How would an SDR based on a raspberry pi zero, a suitable ADC and a tuned
>rx circuit compare ?

You can do a LOT more fun stuff that way, and it isn't even hard.

If you clock a 1MSPS ADC from an OCXO you can discipline it to whatever
VLF signal you prefer (or an ensemble of them)

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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[David G. McGaw]

As was said, IRQ delay is +/-100 mS from the second edge, hardly what a 
Time-Nut is looking for.

David


On 12/4/18 1:07 PM, Hal Murray wrote:
>> The one thing I wish is that there were access to the synchronized  analog
>> signal and/or a 1PPS.  Even a top of the minute would be useful.   It only
>> has the I2C digital interface.
> It also has an IRQ signal.
>
> The data sheet said it's 100 ms after the second, but I didn't see any
> accuracy info but I didn't look carefully.
>
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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Hal Murray]

> The one thing I wish is that there were access to the synchronized  analog
> signal and/or a 1PPS.  Even a top of the minute would be useful.   It only
> has the I2C digital interface. 

It also has an IRQ signal.

The data sheet said it's 100 ms after the second, but I didn't see any 
accuracy info but I didn't look carefully.


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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[jimlux]

On 12/4/18 9:00 AM, Tim Shoppa wrote:

Because of the Q of WWVB's transmit antenna (at least 300 by my back of the
envelope estimates), I don't think we could ever claim a WWVB PPS edge
sharper than 5 milliseconds and that might be optimistic.



Sure you can.. you do a matched filter to the waveform, so you're not 
just looking at a single zero crossing or cycle.  Getting fraction of a 
degree phase accuracy from a strong signal is entirely possible.


A Q of 300 implies a bandwidth of 200Hz, which would, if a single 
section, be a delay of a few milliseconds.  But that delay should be 
constant. What might be the limit on precision is whether the delay 
through the antenna and the ultimate radiated phase changes with, say, 
temperature or soil properties.





Tim N3QE

On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 11:49 AM Bob kb8tq  wrote:


Hi

The I2C clock rate is going to matter a bit in terms of what you can
achieve.
Since the device is targeted at low power, the max practical baud rate may
not be very high. I2C can have a lot of wait in it ... There are a lot of
registers
dumped after each “reception attempt”.

There also is the basic question of how the IRQ flag relates to the time
the
chip “sees”. If it’s actually WWVB time sync’d then that’s a useful thing.

None of this is likely to be an issue in a wall clock. If they can run at
a “tens of ms”
sort of level that’s more than good enough. We really want to get to
microseconds
don’t we :)

Bob


On Dec 4, 2018, at 11:25 AM, Majdi S. Abbas  wrote:

$69 CAD is roughly $50 USD.

Expensive for what it is but easier to work with than gutting a working

clock and no more expensive.


I ordered one.  Curious to see what sort of precision we can get from an

i2c interface.


If nothing else I suppose I can toss a six digit i2c 7 segment module at

it and roll my own WWVB desk clock.


—msa


On Dec 4, 2018, at 07:50, paul swed  wrote:

I assume thats exactly the case. I also thought it was pretty high.
The actual clocks are about $50 or less I believe. So the board seems a

bit

off.
Regards
Paul
WB8TSL




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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[jimlux]

On 12/4/18 8:59 AM, Adrian Godwin wrote:

I understand why a low-volume shipment of what started as a board costing a
few pennies costs $50, but does that simply mean that low-cost parts aren't
the right answer for this sort of application ?

How would an SDR based on a raspberry pi zero, a suitable ADC and a tuned
rx circuit compare ?




"suitable ADC" and "tuned Rx circuit" would greatly interact.. the more 
narrow band your Rx, the fewer bits you'd need in your ADC - The Teensy 
($20 arduino clone) can sample at well over 100ksps with a 16 bit (13-14 
ENOB) differential input, and I'll bet you could make a simple PSK 
demodulator in software, either on the Teensy or on the host PC  (which 
could be a RPi or Beagle) connected via USB.



https://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy32.html

They also sell a higher performance audio interface that might be useful:
https://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy3_audio.html
Although it's 44.1 kHz sample rate - but might actually support other rates.


So the real question is where can you find an inexpensive 60kHz front 
end amplifier.


The computer (whether arduino, teensy, beagle, or Rpi) isn't the 
limiting thing, it's the RF to digital interface. -


Find a $20 60kHz narrow band receiver/ADC , and the rest is straightforward.




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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[John Ackermann. N8UR]

I ordered one, too.  It looks like there's an IRQ line that goes low +/- 100 ms 
of the second mark.  It will be interesting to see how stable that is in real 
life.

On Dec 4, 2018, 11:27 AM, at 11:27 AM, "Majdi S. Abbas"  wrote:
>$69 CAD is roughly $50 USD.
>
>Expensive for what it is but easier to work with than gutting a working
>clock and no more expensive.
>
>I ordered one.  Curious to see what sort of precision we can get from
>an i2c interface.
>
>If nothing else I suppose I can toss a six digit i2c 7 segment module
>at it and roll my own WWVB desk clock.
>
>—msa
>
>> On Dec 4, 2018, at 07:50, paul swed  wrote:
>> 
>> I assume thats exactly the case. I also thought it was pretty high.
>> The actual clocks are about $50 or less I believe. So the board seems
>a bit
>> off.
>> Regards
>> Paul
>> WB8TSL
>> 
>>> On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 12:03 AM Eric Garner 
>wrote:
>>> 
>>> This seems relatively expensive for a little wirebonded board of
>this type.
>>> It seems like the sort of thing that you would normally find on
>aliexpress
>>> or ebay for a few dollars.
>>> 
>>> It it because the es100 is otherwise unobtanium?
>>> 
>>> Eric
>>> 
 On Mon, Dec 3, 2018, 6:12 PM Tom Van Baak wrote:
 
 At long last, a complete WWVB 60 kHz BPSK dev board is available:
 
 
 
>>>
>https://universal-solder.ca/product/everset-es100-cob-wwvb-60khz-bpsk-receiver-kit-with-2-antennas/
 
 Note it includes the antenna(s). Also has links to documentation.
 
 It would be very nice if a bunch of time nuts around the country
>played
 with these and reported results.
 
 Prior to this, the only device that you could buy which used the
>enhanced
 WWVB format was the La Crosse 404-1235UA-SS UltrAtomic clock. It
>was not
 developer friendly, so a dev board with the Everset ES100 chip is
>good
>>> news.
 
 The maker / hacker / Arduino crowd may enjoy a fresh source of
>accurate
 time; something independent of GPS or NTP. Some technical postings
>about
 reception quality, acquisition speed, and timing precision would be
>most
 welcome.
 
 /tvb
 
 
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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Tim Shoppa]

Because of the Q of WWVB's transmit antenna (at least 300 by my back of the
envelope estimates), I don't think we could ever claim a WWVB PPS edge
sharper than 5 milliseconds and that might be optimistic.

Tim N3QE

On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 11:49 AM Bob kb8tq  wrote:

> Hi
>
> The I2C clock rate is going to matter a bit in terms of what you can
> achieve.
> Since the device is targeted at low power, the max practical baud rate may
> not be very high. I2C can have a lot of wait in it ... There are a lot of
> registers
> dumped after each “reception attempt”.
>
> There also is the basic question of how the IRQ flag relates to the time
> the
> chip “sees”. If it’s actually WWVB time sync’d then that’s a useful thing.
>
> None of this is likely to be an issue in a wall clock. If they can run at
> a “tens of ms”
> sort of level that’s more than good enough. We really want to get to
> microseconds
> don’t we :)
>
> Bob
>
> > On Dec 4, 2018, at 11:25 AM, Majdi S. Abbas  wrote:
> >
> > $69 CAD is roughly $50 USD.
> >
> > Expensive for what it is but easier to work with than gutting a working
> clock and no more expensive.
> >
> > I ordered one.  Curious to see what sort of precision we can get from an
> i2c interface.
> >
> > If nothing else I suppose I can toss a six digit i2c 7 segment module at
> it and roll my own WWVB desk clock.
> >
> > —msa
> >
> >> On Dec 4, 2018, at 07:50, paul swed  wrote:
> >>
> >> I assume thats exactly the case. I also thought it was pretty high.
> >> The actual clocks are about $50 or less I believe. So the board seems a
> bit
> >> off.
> >> Regards
> >> Paul
> >> WB8TSL
> >>
>
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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Adrian Godwin]

I understand why a low-volume shipment of what started as a board costing a
few pennies costs $50, but does that simply mean that low-cost parts aren't
the right answer for this sort of application ?

How would an SDR based on a raspberry pi zero, a suitable ADC and a tuned
rx circuit compare ?



On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 4:54 PM David G. McGaw 
wrote:

> It does a very good job of pulling the signal out of the noise.  It
> works in NH, traditionally a fringe region, in all but the most shielded
> of rooms.  I also had occasion to test it for Everset in Kangerlussuaq,
> Greenland.  I found it had no trouble acquiring at any time of the day.
> If the ES100 does not do well enough for you, there is supposedly an
> ES200 available that uses a longer sequence for even more sensitivity.
>
> The one thing I wish is that there were access to the synchronized
> analog signal and/or a 1PPS.  Even a top of the minute would be useful.
> It only has the I2C digital interface.
>
> 73,
>
> David N1HAC
>
>
> On 12/4/18 11:35 AM, Tim Shoppa wrote:
> > Thanks for the heads up Tom! I ordered one and if it comes before the end
> > of the year I may have some time over the holidays to do acquisition test
> > from Maryland and maybe some cross-comparison with GPS PPS.
> >
> > Here in Maryland I have somewhat unreliable reception on commercial
> > non-BPSK WWVB clocks at my house. My Casio Waveceptor watch is 99%+
> > reliable when I'm asleep on the 2nd floor but much less likely to work in
> > the basement. I can reliably hear the amplitude-keyed WWVB carrier on a
> LF
> > receiver with a homebrew loop (about 3 foot by 3 foot) in the evenings
> but
> > it takes some imagination to think I can hear it during the daytime.
> >
> > Tim N3QE
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 9:12 PM Tom Van Baak  wrote:
> >
> >> At long last, a complete WWVB 60 kHz BPSK dev board is available:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> https://universal-solder.ca/product/everset-es100-cob-wwvb-60khz-bpsk-receiver-kit-with-2-antennas/
> >>
> >> Note it includes the antenna(s). Also has links to documentation.
> >>
> >> It would be very nice if a bunch of time nuts around the country played
> >> with these and reported results.
> >>
> >> Prior to this, the only device that you could buy which used the
> enhanced
> >> WWVB format was the La Crosse 404-1235UA-SS UltrAtomic clock. It was not
> >> developer friendly, so a dev board with the Everset ES100 chip is good
> news.
> >>
> >> The maker / hacker / Arduino crowd may enjoy a fresh source of accurate
> >> time; something independent of GPS or NTP. Some technical postings about
> >> reception quality, acquisition speed, and timing precision would be most
> >> welcome.
> >>
> >> /tvb
> >>
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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[David G. McGaw]

It does a very good job of pulling the signal out of the noise.  It 
works in NH, traditionally a fringe region, in all but the most shielded 
of rooms.  I also had occasion to test it for Everset in Kangerlussuaq, 
Greenland.  I found it had no trouble acquiring at any time of the day.  
If the ES100 does not do well enough for you, there is supposedly an 
ES200 available that uses a longer sequence for even more sensitivity.

The one thing I wish is that there were access to the synchronized 
analog signal and/or a 1PPS.  Even a top of the minute would be useful.  
It only has the I2C digital interface.

73,

David N1HAC


On 12/4/18 11:35 AM, Tim Shoppa wrote:
> Thanks for the heads up Tom! I ordered one and if it comes before the end
> of the year I may have some time over the holidays to do acquisition test
> from Maryland and maybe some cross-comparison with GPS PPS.
>
> Here in Maryland I have somewhat unreliable reception on commercial
> non-BPSK WWVB clocks at my house. My Casio Waveceptor watch is 99%+
> reliable when I'm asleep on the 2nd floor but much less likely to work in
> the basement. I can reliably hear the amplitude-keyed WWVB carrier on a LF
> receiver with a homebrew loop (about 3 foot by 3 foot) in the evenings but
> it takes some imagination to think I can hear it during the daytime.
>
> Tim N3QE
>
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 9:12 PM Tom Van Baak  wrote:
>
>> At long last, a complete WWVB 60 kHz BPSK dev board is available:
>>
>>
>> https://universal-solder.ca/product/everset-es100-cob-wwvb-60khz-bpsk-receiver-kit-with-2-antennas/
>>
>> Note it includes the antenna(s). Also has links to documentation.
>>
>> It would be very nice if a bunch of time nuts around the country played
>> with these and reported results.
>>
>> Prior to this, the only device that you could buy which used the enhanced
>> WWVB format was the La Crosse 404-1235UA-SS UltrAtomic clock. It was not
>> developer friendly, so a dev board with the Everset ES100 chip is good news.
>>
>> The maker / hacker / Arduino crowd may enjoy a fresh source of accurate
>> time; something independent of GPS or NTP. Some technical postings about
>> reception quality, acquisition speed, and timing precision would be most
>> welcome.
>>
>> /tvb
>>
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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Bob kb8tq]

Hi

The I2C clock rate is going to matter a bit in terms of what you can achieve. 
Since the device is targeted at low power, the max practical baud rate may
not be very high. I2C can have a lot of wait in it ... There are a lot of 
registers 
dumped after each “reception attempt”. 

There also is the basic question of how the IRQ flag relates to the time the 
chip “sees”. If it’s actually WWVB time sync’d then that’s a useful thing. 

None of this is likely to be an issue in a wall clock. If they can run at a 
“tens of ms”
sort of level that’s more than good enough. We really want to get to 
microseconds 
don’t we :) 

Bob

> On Dec 4, 2018, at 11:25 AM, Majdi S. Abbas  wrote:
> 
> $69 CAD is roughly $50 USD.
> 
> Expensive for what it is but easier to work with than gutting a working clock 
> and no more expensive.
> 
> I ordered one.  Curious to see what sort of precision we can get from an i2c 
> interface.
> 
> If nothing else I suppose I can toss a six digit i2c 7 segment module at it 
> and roll my own WWVB desk clock.
> 
> —msa
> 
>> On Dec 4, 2018, at 07:50, paul swed  wrote:
>> 
>> I assume thats exactly the case. I also thought it was pretty high.
>> The actual clocks are about $50 or less I believe. So the board seems a bit
>> off.
>> Regards
>> Paul
>> WB8TSL
>> 


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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Tim Shoppa]

Thanks for the heads up Tom! I ordered one and if it comes before the end
of the year I may have some time over the holidays to do acquisition test
from Maryland and maybe some cross-comparison with GPS PPS.

Here in Maryland I have somewhat unreliable reception on commercial
non-BPSK WWVB clocks at my house. My Casio Waveceptor watch is 99%+
reliable when I'm asleep on the 2nd floor but much less likely to work in
the basement. I can reliably hear the amplitude-keyed WWVB carrier on a LF
receiver with a homebrew loop (about 3 foot by 3 foot) in the evenings but
it takes some imagination to think I can hear it during the daytime.

Tim N3QE

On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 9:12 PM Tom Van Baak  wrote:

> At long last, a complete WWVB 60 kHz BPSK dev board is available:
>
>
> https://universal-solder.ca/product/everset-es100-cob-wwvb-60khz-bpsk-receiver-kit-with-2-antennas/
>
> Note it includes the antenna(s). Also has links to documentation.
>
> It would be very nice if a bunch of time nuts around the country played
> with these and reported results.
>
> Prior to this, the only device that you could buy which used the enhanced
> WWVB format was the La Crosse 404-1235UA-SS UltrAtomic clock. It was not
> developer friendly, so a dev board with the Everset ES100 chip is good news.
>
> The maker / hacker / Arduino crowd may enjoy a fresh source of accurate
> time; something independent of GPS or NTP. Some technical postings about
> reception quality, acquisition speed, and timing precision would be most
> welcome.
>
> /tvb
>
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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[paul swed]

Majdi good for you. You will have fun. OK precision thats a slippery slope.
The documentation will indicate the sequence time and length and as I
recall the chip produces a result every 90 seconds using the long phase.
There is a short phase after you have acquired that is something like 30
seconds. But I recall it was tricky aligning to the second. That was the
BPSK edge. Anyhow it does work.
I hear they ship some arduino code with it. That would be fun to look at. I
used whats was called a SXB at the time. Worked fine.
Regards
Paul

On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 11:26 AM Majdi S. Abbas  wrote:

> $69 CAD is roughly $50 USD.
>
> Expensive for what it is but easier to work with than gutting a working
> clock and no more expensive.
>
> I ordered one.  Curious to see what sort of precision we can get from an
> i2c interface.
>
> If nothing else I suppose I can toss a six digit i2c 7 segment module at
> it and roll my own WWVB desk clock.
>
> —msa
>
> > On Dec 4, 2018, at 07:50, paul swed  wrote:
> >
> > I assume thats exactly the case. I also thought it was pretty high.
> > The actual clocks are about $50 or less I believe. So the board seems a
> bit
> > off.
> > Regards
> > Paul
> > WB8TSL
> >
> >> On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 12:03 AM Eric Garner  wrote:
> >>
> >> This seems relatively expensive for a little wirebonded board of this
> type.
> >> It seems like the sort of thing that you would normally find on
> aliexpress
> >> or ebay for a few dollars.
> >>
> >> It it because the es100 is otherwise unobtanium?
> >>
> >> Eric
> >>
> >>> On Mon, Dec 3, 2018, 6:12 PM Tom Van Baak  >>>
> >>> At long last, a complete WWVB 60 kHz BPSK dev board is available:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> https://universal-solder.ca/product/everset-es100-cob-wwvb-60khz-bpsk-receiver-kit-with-2-antennas/
> >>>
> >>> Note it includes the antenna(s). Also has links to documentation.
> >>>
> >>> It would be very nice if a bunch of time nuts around the country played
> >>> with these and reported results.
> >>>
> >>> Prior to this, the only device that you could buy which used the
> enhanced
> >>> WWVB format was the La Crosse 404-1235UA-SS UltrAtomic clock. It was
> not
> >>> developer friendly, so a dev board with the Everset ES100 chip is good
> >> news.
> >>>
> >>> The maker / hacker / Arduino crowd may enjoy a fresh source of accurate
> >>> time; something independent of GPS or NTP. Some technical postings
> about
> >>> reception quality, acquisition speed, and timing precision would be
> most
> >>> welcome.
> >>>
> >>> /tvb
> >>>
> >>>
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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Majdi S. Abbas]

$69 CAD is roughly $50 USD.

Expensive for what it is but easier to work with than gutting a working clock 
and no more expensive.

I ordered one.  Curious to see what sort of precision we can get from an i2c 
interface.

If nothing else I suppose I can toss a six digit i2c 7 segment module at it and 
roll my own WWVB desk clock.

—msa

> On Dec 4, 2018, at 07:50, paul swed  wrote:
> 
> I assume thats exactly the case. I also thought it was pretty high.
> The actual clocks are about $50 or less I believe. So the board seems a bit
> off.
> Regards
> Paul
> WB8TSL
> 
>> On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 12:03 AM Eric Garner  wrote:
>> 
>> This seems relatively expensive for a little wirebonded board of this type.
>> It seems like the sort of thing that you would normally find on aliexpress
>> or ebay for a few dollars.
>> 
>> It it because the es100 is otherwise unobtanium?
>> 
>> Eric
>> 
>>> On Mon, Dec 3, 2018, 6:12 PM Tom Van Baak >> 
>>> At long last, a complete WWVB 60 kHz BPSK dev board is available:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> https://universal-solder.ca/product/everset-es100-cob-wwvb-60khz-bpsk-receiver-kit-with-2-antennas/
>>> 
>>> Note it includes the antenna(s). Also has links to documentation.
>>> 
>>> It would be very nice if a bunch of time nuts around the country played
>>> with these and reported results.
>>> 
>>> Prior to this, the only device that you could buy which used the enhanced
>>> WWVB format was the La Crosse 404-1235UA-SS UltrAtomic clock. It was not
>>> developer friendly, so a dev board with the Everset ES100 chip is good
>> news.
>>> 
>>> The maker / hacker / Arduino crowd may enjoy a fresh source of accurate
>>> time; something independent of GPS or NTP. Some technical postings about
>>> reception quality, acquisition speed, and timing precision would be most
>>> welcome.
>>> 
>>> /tvb
>>> 
>>> 
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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[paul swed]

I assume thats exactly the case. I also thought it was pretty high.
The actual clocks are about $50 or less I believe. So the board seems a bit
off.
Regards
Paul
WB8TSL

On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 12:03 AM Eric Garner  wrote:

> This seems relatively expensive for a little wirebonded board of this type.
> It seems like the sort of thing that you would normally find on aliexpress
> or ebay for a few dollars.
>
> It it because the es100 is otherwise unobtanium?
>
> Eric
>
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2018, 6:12 PM Tom Van Baak 
> > At long last, a complete WWVB 60 kHz BPSK dev board is available:
> >
> >
> >
> https://universal-solder.ca/product/everset-es100-cob-wwvb-60khz-bpsk-receiver-kit-with-2-antennas/
> >
> > Note it includes the antenna(s). Also has links to documentation.
> >
> > It would be very nice if a bunch of time nuts around the country played
> > with these and reported results.
> >
> > Prior to this, the only device that you could buy which used the enhanced
> > WWVB format was the La Crosse 404-1235UA-SS UltrAtomic clock. It was not
> > developer friendly, so a dev board with the Everset ES100 chip is good
> news.
> >
> > The maker / hacker / Arduino crowd may enjoy a fresh source of accurate
> > time; something independent of GPS or NTP. Some technical postings about
> > reception quality, acquisition speed, and timing precision would be most
> > welcome.
> >
> > /tvb
> >
> >
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[time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[gandalfg8--- via time-nuts]

Hi Paul,



It was shifted over 11 years ago, very obligingly timed to follow my move from 
the South East to Scotland:-),

so I suspect any resulting propogational changes would have been well 
documented by now.



Nigel GM8PZR



Hi thank you Bob for the mail 

Do you realise the 60 Khz Transmitter in the UK was moved from Rugby in the
centre of England north by more than 200 miles 
Paul 
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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Eric Garner]

This seems relatively expensive for a little wirebonded board of this type.
It seems like the sort of thing that you would normally find on aliexpress
or ebay for a few dollars.

It it because the es100 is otherwise unobtanium?

Eric

On Mon, Dec 3, 2018, 6:12 PM Tom Van Baak  At long last, a complete WWVB 60 kHz BPSK dev board is available:
>
>
> https://universal-solder.ca/product/everset-es100-cob-wwvb-60khz-bpsk-receiver-kit-with-2-antennas/
>
> Note it includes the antenna(s). Also has links to documentation.
>
> It would be very nice if a bunch of time nuts around the country played
> with these and reported results.
>
> Prior to this, the only device that you could buy which used the enhanced
> WWVB format was the La Crosse 404-1235UA-SS UltrAtomic clock. It was not
> developer friendly, so a dev board with the Everset ES100 chip is good news.
>
> The maker / hacker / Arduino crowd may enjoy a fresh source of accurate
> time; something independent of GPS or NTP. Some technical postings about
> reception quality, acquisition speed, and timing precision would be most
> welcome.
>
> /tvb
>
>
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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[paul swed]

I am on the east coast and the everset chips work very well I have had a
unit for musty be 5 years and ran tests for them. So at least here in
Boston it does very fine.
Hope that helps.
Regards
Paul
WB8TSL

On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 10:33 PM Alex Pummer  wrote:

> that address is incorrect:  Website: www.EversetClocks.com
>
> Alex
>
> On 12/3/2018 6:20 PM, Paul Bicknell wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > There is a 60 Khz  frequency standard operating in the UK
> >
> > So do the two signals interfere with each other?
> > Paul
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@lists.febo.com] On Behalf Of
> Tom
> > Van Baak
> > Sent: 04 December 2018 02:12
> > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> > Subject: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board
> >
> > At long last, a complete WWVB 60 kHz BPSK dev board is available:
> >
> >
> https://universal-solder.ca/product/everset-es100-cob-wwvb-60khz-bpsk-receiv
> > er-kit-with-2-antennas/
> >
> > Note it includes the antenna(s). Also has links to documentation.
> >
> > It would be very nice if a bunch of time nuts around the country played
> with
> > these and reported results.
> >
> > Prior to this, the only device that you could buy which used the enhanced
> > WWVB format was the La Crosse 404-1235UA-SS UltrAtomic clock. It was not
> > developer friendly, so a dev board with the Everset ES100 chip is good
> news.
> >
> > The maker / hacker / Arduino crowd may enjoy a fresh source of accurate
> > time; something independent of GPS or NTP. Some technical postings about
> > reception quality, acquisition speed, and timing precision would be most
> > welcome.
> >
> > /tvb
> >
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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Alex Pummer]

that address is incorrect:  Website: www.EversetClocks.com

Alex

On 12/3/2018 6:20 PM, Paul Bicknell wrote:

Hi All

There is a 60 Khz  frequency standard operating in the UK

So do the two signals interfere with each other?
Paul

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From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@lists.febo.com] On Behalf Of Tom
Van Baak
Sent: 04 December 2018 02:12
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

At long last, a complete WWVB 60 kHz BPSK dev board is available:

https://universal-solder.ca/product/everset-es100-cob-wwvb-60khz-bpsk-receiv
er-kit-with-2-antennas/

Note it includes the antenna(s). Also has links to documentation.

It would be very nice if a bunch of time nuts around the country played with
these and reported results.

Prior to this, the only device that you could buy which used the enhanced
WWVB format was the La Crosse 404-1235UA-SS UltrAtomic clock. It was not
developer friendly, so a dev board with the Everset ES100 chip is good news.

The maker / hacker / Arduino crowd may enjoy a fresh source of accurate
time; something independent of GPS or NTP. Some technical postings about
reception quality, acquisition speed, and timing precision would be most
welcome.

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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Paul Bicknell]

Hi thank you Bob for the mail 

Do you realise the 60 Khz Transmitter in the UK was moved from Rugby in the
centre of England north by more than 200 miles 
Paul 

-Original Message-
From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@lists.febo.com] On Behalf Of Bob
kb8tq
Sent: 04 December 2018 02:38
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

Hi

The interference "front" turns out to be over the US rather than over the
UK. Power, 
distance, and propagation all get into the "why". The answer is that you get
crazy
fades and phase shifts as a result.

Bob

> On Dec 3, 2018, at 9:20 PM, Paul Bicknell  wrote:
> 
> Hi All 
> 
> There is a 60 Khz  frequency standard operating in the UK 
> 
> So do the two signals interfere with each other? 
> Paul
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@lists.febo.com] On Behalf Of Tom
> Van Baak
> Sent: 04 December 2018 02:12
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board
> 
> At long last, a complete WWVB 60 kHz BPSK dev board is available:
> 
>
https://universal-solder.ca/product/everset-es100-cob-wwvb-60khz-bpsk-receiv
> er-kit-with-2-antennas/
> 
> Note it includes the antenna(s). Also has links to documentation.
> 
> It would be very nice if a bunch of time nuts around the country played
with
> these and reported results.
> 
> Prior to this, the only device that you could buy which used the enhanced
> WWVB format was the La Crosse 404-1235UA-SS UltrAtomic clock. It was not
> developer friendly, so a dev board with the Everset ES100 chip is good
news.
> 
> The maker / hacker / Arduino crowd may enjoy a fresh source of accurate
> time; something independent of GPS or NTP. Some technical postings about
> reception quality, acquisition speed, and timing precision would be most
> welcome.
> 
> /tvb
> 
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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Bob kb8tq]

Hi

The interference “front” turns out to be over the US rather than over the UK. 
Power, 
distance, and propagation all get into the “why”. The answer is that you get 
crazy
fades and phase shifts as a result.

Bob

> On Dec 3, 2018, at 9:20 PM, Paul Bicknell  wrote:
> 
> Hi All 
> 
> There is a 60 Khz  frequency standard operating in the UK 
> 
> So do the two signals interfere with each other? 
> Paul
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@lists.febo.com] On Behalf Of Tom
> Van Baak
> Sent: 04 December 2018 02:12
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board
> 
> At long last, a complete WWVB 60 kHz BPSK dev board is available:
> 
> https://universal-solder.ca/product/everset-es100-cob-wwvb-60khz-bpsk-receiv
> er-kit-with-2-antennas/
> 
> Note it includes the antenna(s). Also has links to documentation.
> 
> It would be very nice if a bunch of time nuts around the country played with
> these and reported results.
> 
> Prior to this, the only device that you could buy which used the enhanced
> WWVB format was the La Crosse 404-1235UA-SS UltrAtomic clock. It was not
> developer friendly, so a dev board with the Everset ES100 chip is good news.
> 
> The maker / hacker / Arduino crowd may enjoy a fresh source of accurate
> time; something independent of GPS or NTP. Some technical postings about
> reception quality, acquisition speed, and timing precision would be most
> welcome.
> 
> /tvb
> 
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Re: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Paul Bicknell]

Hi All 

There is a 60 Khz  frequency standard operating in the UK 

So do the two signals interfere with each other? 
Paul

-Original Message-
From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@lists.febo.com] On Behalf Of Tom
Van Baak
Sent: 04 December 2018 02:12
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: [time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

At long last, a complete WWVB 60 kHz BPSK dev board is available:

https://universal-solder.ca/product/everset-es100-cob-wwvb-60khz-bpsk-receiv
er-kit-with-2-antennas/

Note it includes the antenna(s). Also has links to documentation.

It would be very nice if a bunch of time nuts around the country played with
these and reported results.

Prior to this, the only device that you could buy which used the enhanced
WWVB format was the La Crosse 404-1235UA-SS UltrAtomic clock. It was not
developer friendly, so a dev board with the Everset ES100 chip is good news.

The maker / hacker / Arduino crowd may enjoy a fresh source of accurate
time; something independent of GPS or NTP. Some technical postings about
reception quality, acquisition speed, and timing precision would be most
welcome.

/tvb


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[time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Tom Van Baak]

At long last, a complete WWVB 60 kHz BPSK dev board is available:

https://universal-solder.ca/product/everset-es100-cob-wwvb-60khz-bpsk-receiver-kit-with-2-antennas/

Note it includes the antenna(s). Also has links to documentation.

It would be very nice if a bunch of time nuts around the country played with 
these and reported results.

Prior to this, the only device that you could buy which used the enhanced WWVB 
format was the La Crosse 404-1235UA-SS UltrAtomic clock. It was not developer 
friendly, so a dev board with the Everset ES100 chip is good news.

The maker / hacker / Arduino crowd may enjoy a fresh source of accurate time; 
something independent of GPS or NTP. Some technical postings about reception 
quality, acquisition speed, and timing precision would be most welcome.

/tvb


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