[time-nuts] Local Solar Time Clock
Magnus Danielson
magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Sun Jan 19 13:10:55 EST 2014
On 01/19/2014 05:46 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <52DBFF99.3060608 at rubidium.dyndns.org>, Magnus Danielson writes:
>
>> My feverish brain now cranks out that all we need is a electromechanical
>> WWVB receiver, thus no active electronic parts. That would be a nice
>> little challenge.
> The main challenge is an antenna which delivers sufficient power.
>
> I don't know the WWVB signal well enough, but decoding DCF77 by
> mechanical means wouldn't be too hard.
>
Amplification would indeed be the challenge, even if you live down the
road from WWVB like some here do.
Here we would need to do MSF or DCF77, both would be severly challenging
to do "passively".
Cheers,
Magnus
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