[time-nuts] WWVB BPSK Receiver Project? (fwd)

Attila Kinali attila at kinali.ch
Sat Mar 17 12:36:27 UTC 2012


On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 10:15:17 +0000
"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:

> In message <20120317111119.9536107ebf82050fe14ee85c at kinali.ch>, Attila Kinali w
> rites:
> >On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 10:01:13 +0000
> 
> >Could you explain why? Yes, you need a higher BW for Loran-C,
> >but the phase(f) function will give you only a distortion of
> >the signal and a constant time delay in your signal recovery.
> >But that shouldnt degrade the usefullness of the system.
> >What am i missing here?
> 
> Either you need to characterize the exact behaviour of your filter
> and build the necessary compensation for its phase/frequency behaviour
> into your receiver, or you need a very flat filter (both freq+phase)
> in order to reliably recognize the proper zero-crossing to track.
> 
> The more you disturb a Loran-C pulse, the more it just looks like
> a bit of a sine-function, and the harder it is to lock on the right
> zero-crossing.

Ah.. so it is because Loran-C uses the third zero crossing as specified
measurement point, which you thus have to capture with the greates
possible resolution.

Am i right that for DCF77, WWVB and the like, where there is no such
requirement on the zero crossing of a pulse, one can just lock to the
carrier and the distortions from filters are not so relevant?

			Attila Kinali
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