[ale] [Semi-OT] Building a WWVB receiver for ntp or similar

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Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 06:40 -0500, Jim Lynch wrote:
>   
>> Found this, which might help:
>>
>> http://www.fatman.org/projects/wwvbclock/
>>     
>
> Interesting.  I guess the general consensus from everything that I have
> read is to gut an inexpensive clock as opposed to building the radio
> receiver oneself.  I wonder if that means that the radio receiver is all
> that difficult to build?
>
> 	--- Mike
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No, a 60kHz receiver is really easy to build.  See 
http://www.aavso.org/observing/programs/solar/easySID.shtml

If your goal is time sync, it is easier and cheaper to buy.  If you want 
to learn radio and electronics, the project is relatively simple and 
very instructive.  May even turn you into a ham radio buff.

Tom