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Support calibrating from 60 kHz WWVB time signal? (or 72 MHz Primex FM rebroadcasts)

Open rxseger opened this issue 8 years ago • 2 comments

From the original website:

There are other ways to calibrate these devices -- the FA-SY 1 documentation discusses using the WWVB time signals.

More details at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWVB

The 70 kW ERP signal transmitted from WWVB is a continuous 60 kHz carrier wave, the frequency of which is derived from a set of atomic clocks located at the transmitter site, yielding a frequency uncertainty of less than 1 part in 10^12

60 kHz may require downconverters for use with common SDR hardware, but could be interesting to support it anyways, as an alternative to the GSM FCCH signal

rxseger avatar Jun 08 '16 05:06 rxseger

Or is it possible to use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWV_(radio_station) instead? Transmits on 2.5, 5, 10, 15, 20 MHz, I can copy at least the 10 MHz station with my HackRF

rxseger avatar Jun 08 '16 07:06 rxseger

WWVB is often locally rebroadcast at ~72 MHz by various locations, I received 72.320 MHz: https://soundcloud.com/user-223812058/72320-mhz-fm - Primex Wireless clock systems: https://web.archive.org/web/20120907065211/http://www.primexwireless.com/uploads/files/GPSTime.pdf - well within the range of the HackRF.

rxseger avatar Jun 18 '16 03:06 rxseger