[time-nuts] Basic question regarding comparing two frequencies

Chuck Harris cfharris at erols.com
Fri Jul 30 14:37:18 UTC 2010


The November deadline on the shared stations that hold positions
in both the US and Canadian Loran chains is to allow operation to
continue in Canada until they close their system... in November.

-Chuck Harris

paul swed wrote:
> Oh indeed I agree John.
> LORAN has spoiled me also at least till nov I hear.
> The Canadians are a drop better then us at saving the system.
> I am definitely figuring out the old ways and can't say that I like it all
> that much.
> Always have gps for the moment.
>
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:08 AM, J. Forster<jfor at quik.com>  wrote:
>
>> Partly.
>>
>> There are hourly jogs in the WWVB signal and also diurnal shifts of the
>> order of a cycle at 60 KHz.
>>
>> The Fluke receivers havs a counter for microseconds, but it's difficult to
>> intrerpret w/o the stripchart too.
>>
>> Frankly, 60 KHz is a PITA IMO. Oh for LORAN!
>>
>> -John



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