[time-nuts] WWVB rcvr/comparator

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Thu Aug 15 03:13:48 EDT 2013


paulswedb at gmail.com said:
> Yes indeed tick tick tick. But its funny if something happens and the pen
> jumps you can tell its worth going over for a look. SIDs and such. The
> digital ones make no noise. 

For those of you who didn't know and were too busy to look it up:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_Ionospheric_Disturbance
(Minor time sink warning.)

We should be able to write some software that would beep (or blink a LED) 
when the signal strength or delay jumped far enough.  You could send a bit of 
info using morse code.  Even a crude number-of-blinks works pretty well.




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