Re: [time-nuts] WWVB phase modulation format?

2012-03-11 Thread John Seamons
On Mar 9, 2012, at 4:28 PM, Peter Monta wrote: Interesting that WWVB is running a phase-modulation test---thanks for the links. Is the signal format known? A quick search shows nothing specific, just we're testing. Could someone record a few minutes of the broadband signal so that those

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB phase modulation format?

2012-03-11 Thread John Seamons
On Mar 11, 2012, at 12:53 PM, John Seamons wrote: I took a look at this. Pictures and video here: http://jks.com I believe what they were doing is applying a simple 180 deg phase shift to the carrier (BPSK) during certain one second timecode intervals. Whether there was anything fancier

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB phase modulation format?

2012-03-11 Thread Peter Monta
I believe what they were doing is applying a simple 180 deg phase shift to the carrier (BPSK) during certain one second timecode intervals. I suppose this will help coherent receivers somewhat, but I was expecting something DCF77-like. A pity. Thanks for posting your data. You certainly

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB phase modulation format?

2012-03-11 Thread Peter Monta
... or I suppose we could ask. I did ask, using the contact email on the NIST page (John Lowe). I'll forward any replies to the list. Perhaps we could encourage a more ambitious DCF77-like scheme, if that's really not in the current plans for WWVB. Especially given the recent demise of

[time-nuts] WWVB phase modulation format?

2012-03-09 Thread Peter Monta
Interesting that WWVB is running a phase-modulation test---thanks for the links. Is the signal format known? A quick search shows nothing specific, just we're testing. Could someone record a few minutes of the broadband signal so that those of us without ready-to-hand LF receivers can have a