-------- In message <264cf93f-7b18-4106-901a-0edfd93c1...@earthlink.net>, James Robbins writes:
>Does anyone know of any other genuinely useful purpose to which >the Austron 2100F, SRS FS700, etc receivers can be put in the US >since the demise of Loran? Inquiring minds would like to know. The 2100F can be used as a 24 hour clock and has a nice-ish large LCD display, which is about the best thing you can use it for, even if you do have Loran-C signals - it's not a great performer. The FS700 is basically the same design as the Infamous Dave Mills LORAN-C timing receiver, gated integrators, and since I have serial #2 of those, I have never felt like paying eBay prices for a FS700[1]. In theory one *could* retune the FS700's RF stages and use it as a phase-tracking VLF receiver, for instance for WWVB, but you'd get much better performance and much more fun with an SDR approach. Poul-Henning [1] If anybody in Europe wants to have some *real* fun with Loran-C receivers, they should look at the "Locus LRS" receivers on eBay. Not only are they much cheaper than the FS700's they are also *much* more advanced: The LRS was built to replace the Austron 5000 PDP/11 controlled monitoring receivers at the LORSTAs. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ 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.
