[time-nuts] Ideas for a long-wave receiver sought

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <38553AAD-ECC6-4AF8-90B3-42BBEC366CA6 at msys.ch>, Marc Balmer writes:

>I want to build a small, cheap, yet precise long-wave receiver which  
>can be
>tuned from the computer in the 2KHz - 200 KHz range (the intended use
>is to receive various time signal stations).
>
>Does a chip for such a receiver exist?  Should I take the SDR route?
>I designed a DCF77 receivers some years ago, but I need something
>more flexible (and a bit more modern...)

Go SDR.

There are ARM7 chips now that have sufficient ADC quality  to do the
job.

See for instance: http://phk.freebsd.dk/AducLoran 

Poul-Henning

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