> On the positive side: there could be some very nice stuff on the surplus > market post-mortem.
An interesting feature of surplus timing gear is that while quartz, cesium, and rubidium clocks still count seconds when they are surplused, time transfer systems such as those based on Omega, Loran-C, GOES, WWV, CHU, WWVB, ACTS, NTP, GPS, GLONASS, and Galileo are only useful when the complex and expensive transmitting infrastructure behind them is still operational. Earlier forms of Loran are gone. Omega is gone. I watched the last bits as GOES died a few years ago and now all the GOES receivers in my collection are effectively silent. I suspect, over the decades, as budgets and technology changes, that the same will eventually occur to all timing systems that we know today. /tvb _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
