[ntp:questions] NTP absolute accuracy?
Unruh
unruh-spam at physics.ubc.ca
Mon Nov 2 03:12:59 UTC 2009
John Hasler <jhasler at newsguy.com> writes:
>Bill Unruh writes:
>> Sorry, at 10usec, the distance away of the transmitter must be less than 3 km.
>10usec at the transmitter.
>> Also your system needs to see the start of the tone to 10usec which
>> means that the tone would have to be about 1MHz which is a bit beyond
>> audio.
>There isn't any tone. It's the UK equivalent of WWVB.
How is the beginning of the second ( an hour) marked?
The bandwidth of whatever marks it has to be pretty narrow, or the transmitter
would interfer with everything around it. Ie, that means a large time uncertainty.
Ie how fast is the carrier actually switched off and on. It cannot be
instantaneous or the signal would spill out badly into neighbouring bands.
><http://resource.npl.co.uk/docs/networks/time/meeting3/martin.pdf>
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>John Hasler
>jhasler at newsguy.com
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