[time-nuts] Timing Distribution in Mountainous Terrain

Sanjeev Gupta ghane0 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 10 04:23:25 UTC 2010


On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 06:17, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:

> Or, a specially-equipped aircraft which is periodically flown along paths
> visible to multiple antenna sites during an extended holdover in order to
> adjust out drift based on measured round-trip times between the sites and
> aircraft? In effect, flying your own low-altitude satellite over the sites
> when the GPS system is down.
>

Assuming there are multiple overflights per hour, which are visible at more
than 4(?) sites at the same time, would there be enough information to steer
the clocks?

The correction would not need to be in real time, either.

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