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-----Original Message----- From: time-nuts [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alexander Pummer Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2015 9:13 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] lawnmower robots may be the end of VLF timekeeping Bob Widlar -- yes the designer of the "741" -- of National Semiconductor had a better idea, he bought a few sheep 73 KJ6UHN Alex On 5/9/2015 2:02 PM, Mark Sims wrote: > iRobot (the Roomba vacuum cleaner people) have applied for an exemption to > allow them to send beacon signals in a 6-7 GHz band to fence in their new > lawnmower. The band they want to operate in is apparently for indoor only > low power applications. > > The easy solution is to just buy some goats... the emit very little in the > way of EMI... but do emit other, uhhhh, signals. > > -------------------------- > Clearly, you need a better nav system for the robot based on precision > time of flight measurements from a network of transmitters around the > property linked to your hydrogen maser. > _______________________________________________ > 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.
