There are places, like a lot thick with 100' pine trees, that satellites are pretty much unusable. A tower is out of the question due to zoning.
Best, -John ================= > Well I miss loran c and certainly will miss the LF stations though they > are > cranky to get good readings from. > However the reality is that numbers of governments are sending up > satellites > so there are alternate timing platforms. It was one thing when only GPS > existed. > And from this group every ones using GPS references pretty much. > So it is evolution. > Unfortunate. > Regards > Paul > WB8TSL > > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 6:16 PM, J. Forster <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Every time I hear of another time/frequency service being shut down by >> shortsighted governments, putting more and more eggs into fewer and >> fewer >> baskets. >> >> I wonder how long it will be before the only remaining basket of will >> suffer a catastrophic fall. >> >> :( >> >> -John >> >> ================ >> >> >> >> >> > On 12/10/11 17:33, Azelio Boriani wrote: >> >> Yes, they (the Swiss federal authorities) say it costs too much. >> > >> > Considering that GPS receivers are plentiful and provides similar or >> > better performance it comes as no surprice. >> > >> > Maybe th RF oriented nuts shall capture the last cycles out of these >> > transmitters as they finally shuts down. A bit like capturing leap >> > seconds. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Magnus >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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. >> > >> > >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > _______________________________________________ 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.
