bob@KAHALA.SOEST.HAWAII.EDU (Bob Cunningham) (11/17/90)
Anybody know of a source for a clock that will tick off of GMS satellite time ticks with--hopefully--an RS232 interface? Next year I'll have some things going on so far west (i.e, in the "Far East") where we won't be able to use our usual GOES clocks, but I'd like to do something similar using GMS if possible [GMS being the Japanese satellite similar--but with different time signals than--GOES].
Mills@udel.edu (11/17/90)
Bob, Cheeze, I didn't know the Japanese had such a thing. If all goes well by the end of the year or so, I hope that NTP comes up on INSAT. I am to travel to Bombay at request UN Development Program to help in some things that may by coincidence result in such a thing. Meanwhile, while I can't help you with GMS, I can advise the only thing known to work in that part of the world with RS232 output is the TrueTime OMEGA receiver, but for that you had better know where you are and approximately what time it is first. Oh, of course, the $12,500 TrueTime GPS receiver is usable at least some hours of the day, but you can buy a $10,000 rubidium standard to fill in the gaps. Now that the SA has been turned off after our Desert Shield warriors got lost in the sands, you might even find skinny tick therein. The CBS Evening News aired a segment about our warriors not having enough of those receivers, which look not much larger than a hand calculator. Please, daddy, can I have one for Christmas? Dave