On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Neville Michie <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > How far could you get passing time around from amateur station to station > with a two way handshake system that establishes the instantaneous delay > on the two way path and assumes a delay of half that value? A time relay. > The stations would need their own short term clocks so they could keep > their own time between contacts, and somewhere you would need heros > with primary standards to synch the whole system. > You would not be able to find a good position, because you would not know > the > propagation mode.
A lot of work has been put into NTP which does a fine job of this and considers a lot of subtleties. In practice it has precision limits. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
