"Alan B. Pearce" schrieb:
>
> >As a side note to Jinx's "not happening yet" project...how about this
> >for a bunch of remote controllable clocks. What if you got a number of
> >those radio controlled clocks that sync up to the WWV atomic clock
> >signal. I've never looked in one, but perhaps you could detune it
> >slightly, and make a low powered transmitter to mimic WWV and take
> >remote control of them? I don't know if they broadcast time signals on
> >other continents, so perhaps you wouldn't have to detune them at all.
> >Comments? Instead of using them as clocks, perhaps you could get them to
> >work as remote displays for a countdown timer or something. Granted
> >going with an off the shelf RF module and a PIC would probably be
> >cheaper, but is all this even possible?
> >
> >Just an idea that popped into my head.
>
> Not a bad idea. Note that the 60KHz transmissions also are available in the
> UK and Europe (somewhere in Germany I believe)
Hi List,

the transmitter is a little east of Frankfurt/Main in central Germany,
frequency is 77.5 KHz, modulated in amplitude drops of 100 msec and 200
msec for the info bits. Range is said to be 1500 km (abt 1000 miles)

Jochen Feldhaar DH6FAZ
. I think they all use the
> same data format, I do have a PDF somewhere that describes the UK format.
>
> Sorry this is way behind the thread, I have had a week off sick.
>
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