Hi The ARC-164 most certainly existed long before HAVE QUICK came along. My only point was that HAVE QUICK didn't exist before the ARC-164 got it.
Bob On Dec 14, 2012, at 9:46 AM, Peter Bell <bell.pe...@gmail.com> wrote: > It was certainly one of the very first radios with it - but there was also > a non HQ version (the most obvious sign was that the synthesizer slice just > had "Synth" rather than "Synth/ECCM" on it. The RAF in the UK had a bunch > of them and wanted to modify them to HQ spec for interoperability - the > reason for the "special" timing box was that the one the USAF were using > was based on a military spec GPS receiver that was a much bigger export > problem than the HQ radios were. I also have a vague memory that although > the actual GPS would work in a degraded mode if it didn't have current key > data the TOD output just turned off because it could no longer decode the > corrections for SA and the designers had decided that possibly wrong was > worse than nothing at all. > > Thinking about this stuff makes me feel old (looks at his phone with a 40 > channel parallel tracking GPS/GLONASS receiver in it). > > > > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Bob Camp <li...@rtty.us> wrote: > >> Hi >> >> Ummm…… errrr….. wasn't the ARC-164 the original HAVE QUICK radio? They >> certainly came out in both HAVE QUICK I and HAVE QUICK II versions. >> >> Yes, that was 30 years ago…. >> >> Bob >> >> On Dec 14, 2012, at 1:24 AM, Peter Bell <bell.pe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> One of the very first time related projects I was involved in was for >>> synchronizing radios - this was when they were retrofitting HAVE QUICK to >>> the AN/ARC-164 and wanted a cheap, portable source of TOD data - the GPS >>> was a 2-Channel Magnavox unit (C/A code only) and they also did the >>> firmware modifications to generate the right data format (STANAG 4246?) - >>> so basically all that was left was putting them into a box with battery >>> backup. >>> >>> Wow, that was more than 20 years ago - I guess I'm getting old... >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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. >> > _______________________________________________ > 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.
