[time-nuts] WWVB PM Receiver

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Sep 26 06:27:33 UTC 2012


In message <BC97E391-7ABE-413D-868A-1878A2E3A653 at rtty.us>, Bob Camp writes:

>Given the low frequency, it's not to hard or expensive to do a DSP radio. A
> true FPGA (not a CPLD) would do it pretty easily. You could probably do it
> with a reasonably fast micro controller.  Normally the ADC would be a 
>significant chunk of the cost. At 60 KHz -- not so much.

It's called "A PC with a 192kHz soundcard..." and it's ridiculously cheap
and has amazing computing power :-)

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