No residual carrier is required. -John
================ > On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 11:13:32PM -0400, Merchison Burke wrote: >> Glad to know that it is not finalised as yet. When I read about this >> wrinkle, I was about to put my units up for sale. > > Put them up for sale. If you can find a buyer. > > I asked Mr. Lowe this week and was told there'd be no residual > carrier or workaround for existing phase locking receivers, even time > of day receivers. > > Debating what to do with mine, really, keep them as nice pieces > of hardware (albeit in my own personal museum) -- they can go next to > the LORAN and GOES receivers. The pile is getting pretty big these > days. Anyone have an OMEGA receiver they want to part with? > > Sorry, but if you want something besides GPS, you're on your > own. The US government has made its priorities clear -- if it's not > GPS, it's an 'obsolete waste.' > > Somehow, we lose out vs "12 million" WWVB clocks, despite the > fact that not 3 years ago they were willing to obsolete all those > clocks with an added 40 or 75 kHz station. At least, as long as > 'stimulus' funds were being waved around. > > Along the lines of developing a receiver: > > Since they haven't settled on the format, there's no additional > documentation available [that was the second part of my question..] > > I'm torn on the subject anyway...part of me wants the challenge, > and part of me thinks that if the format can be changed without a public > comment period or a phase out timeframe, that it may not be worth the > risk of developing one. > > As it stands I guess I'm back to WWV/WWVH as a backup. > But I can have all the self setting wall-clocks I want -- provided I > don't mind flipping them between PST and MST, since few allow you to > disable DST. :) > > --msa > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.