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I've been hacking LW time signal receivers for at least a couple of decades, always liked DCF77 because of the additional 512 count sequence (both it and MSF a
by zh3 5y ago
I've been hacking LW time signal receivers for at least a couple of decades, always liked DCF77 because of the additional 512 count sequence (both it and MSF are great intro's to RF hacking in the UK/EU). I'd still got recordings of LW time signals from MSF, HBG and DCF for the midnight rollover from 1999 to 2000 (they didn't all get it right :) ).
It's not well known, but quite a few LW transmissions also carry timecode. TDF Allouis in France and Radio 4 in the UK (R4 is pretty cool because it also carries certain 'additional data'). A couple of source that went off air relatively recently were HBG75[[0] and Loran [1].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBG_(time_signal) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBG_(time_signal)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loran-C https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loran-C
- RicoElectrico 5y ago> 512 count sequence I guess the proper term is "chip", as in DSSS CDMA.