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R.I.P VR Surfer Plus Active Antenna Teardown!! (Patreon)

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2020-01-27 23:35:42
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2021-10

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I got the final info on the VR Surfer from a viewer, and another viewer send in an active antenna for the Heathkit GC-1000 Most Accurate Clock, and I take a minute to take a peek inside.  Enjoy!   

https://youtu.be/Zb9pqhx4Unc

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R.I.P VR Surfer Plus Active Antenna Teardown!!

I got the final info on the VR Surfer from a viewer, and another viewer send in an active antenna for the Heathkit GC-1000 Most Accurate Clock, and I take a minute to take a peek inside. Enjoy! Join Team FranLab!!!! Become a patron and help support my YouTube Channel on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/frantone #Heathkit #teardown #VR 100 Years of the WWV - https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/these-radio-stations-dont-play-news-talk-shows-or-music-but-they-do-broadcast-very-very-accurate-time-signals/2020/01/24/3d322946-3d3e-11ea-baca-eb7ace0a3455_story.html - Music by Fran Blanche - Frantone on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/frantone/ Fran on Twitter - https://twitter.com/contourcorsets Fran's Science Blog - http://www.frantone.com/designwritings/design_writings.html FranArt Website - http://www.contourcorsets.com

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Dr Andy Hill

I was watching a video from another channel that I patronise, while thinking how to get in touch with you, to tell you that the link didn't work but you already fixed it :-)

Jason Olshefsky

Have you not heard of DC injection for a low noise block (LNB) amplifier up by the antenna?

Anonymous

I hope you found the short output to BNC cable I placed in the box. Good luck with the antenna.

Anonymous

Too bad about the VR Surfer. But it still was an interesting video. You might like this YouTube video from a few year ago of a tour of the WWV at Fort Collins, CO. https://youtu.be/XJewUiP0Ueo

Anonymous

I wonder if you'd consider doing a collaboration with LGR, he's got the necessary computer hardware to put the VR surfer through its paces.

Dr Andy Hill

I love shiny new gizmos! Enjoy!

Anonymous

Ah that's a shame about the VR Surfer but thanks for trying. Really interesting to see the hardware anyway. I wonder if the clock is more accurate than NTP (internet time). Say you're 1000 miles from the transmitter, that's about 5ms out due to the speed of light. NTP has a correction because it has the luxury of bi-directional communication and can estimate the ping time to the time server. It's still going to be some number of milliseconds out though. However I wonder if the radio clock is perhaps more consistent because the signal path is a fixed length (if you don't move the clock) but the internet latency varies.

frantone
>>31755938

I'm not a HAM. In the audio biz we try to keep the DC off the AC as much as possible.

frantone
>>31787052

The GC-1000 has dip switches to set for your time zone so that it can compensate for the radio delay.

frantone
>>31762615

Nah. This unit has sentimental value to me, so I'll put it back in the vault for future generations to ponder.

Anonymous

As always. Enjoyed! 🤗