Vitaliy wrote:
> Forrest, I don't think I've ever seen your website. What kinds of products 
> do you build/sell?
>   
Niche-market products for the Wireless ISP industry.  Well, mostly for 
the Wireless ISP industry.  http://www.packetflux.com/

The devices which use the GPS receivers are actually after the highly 
accurate (within 100ns of UTC) 1 Pulse per second timing signal to 
synchronize radios for the internet providers to help reduce 
self-interference.    They are a lot less expensive than the official 
manufacturer-designed products, and I move a lot of them every year.  

>> In reality my intention would be to use the 60Hz line as the clock
>> source.  Good, cheap, reliable, as long as you make sure you have a good
>> schmitt-trigger on the input.
>>     
>
> A long time ago, someone told me that because of this assumption, clocks 
> that worked well in FRG went haywire in the GDR. You are really limiting 
> your market with this decision. ;-)
>   
Hmmm...  if my target market ever moves outside the US 60Hz power grid, 
maybe I'll release a patch.  

You know you're a real electronics (or PIC) geek when you say "my alarm 
clock isn't working for me anymore, and everyone I've purchased has had 
things that irritate me, so I'll just build one which does work the way 
I want it to".   We could go into the numerous stupid things about the 
typical mass-market alarm clock, but I won't.   And no, I'm not 
interested in selling alarm clocks to Wal-Mart.

-forrest
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