[email protected] said: > Back to the Control Room you contact the transmitting station (I think it > was DSS12) by voice to insure that they have the station manned and > transmitting, and began to operate the "thing". The transmission were > specific for each receiving station, because all the complex processing was > done at the transmission end: the transmitting equipment accounted for the > instantaneous round trip distance between the transmitter and the receiver > via the moon and continuously adjusted the modulating code "early" in order > to to be received on time. The equipment also introduced a one microsecond > shift each second. The receiver had a correlator whose output went to an HP > strip chart recorder which draw the correlator output in one channel and a > PPS with a minute mark in the second.
What sort of frequency accuracy were you after? Did somebody have to correct for the Doppler due to the rotation of the Earth? > Fortunately we relied on Loran C as our main clock offset determination > method until the arrival of GPS. How did Loran synchronize their clocks? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ 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.
