The comments are right on. The 8170 depended on the AM signal and a stable
carrier phase. This is pretty much the same for all of the old spectracoms.
That said you have to use an external box to fix the carrier. I built
several different approaches and shared them on Time-nuts. If the archives
Hi
An antenna is pretty much an antenna so it will still work on the “new” WWVB
signal. The receiver
portion of the setup will indeed have issues with the new signal. The rest of
the setup would still
work with an alternate approach to the receiver.
Bob
> On Sep 8, 2019, at 10:55 AM, bill
As I recall, as-is these units don't work with the new WWVB signal format.
however, some enterprising person on this list has a mod for these units
that a search of the archives will discover.
-Eric
On Sun, Sep 8, 2019 at 10:03 AM bill K7WXW wrote:
> I have a stack of Spectracom 8170 WWVB
I have a stack of Spectracom 8170 WWVB synchronized clock boxes, along
with the matching antenna and preamp and an RS232 distribution box. I
found a little documentation for the antenna and preamp but little else.
Wondering if anyone here has any ideas how I might re-purpose them.
They have
