[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 
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