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Old March 8th 13, 04:32 PM posted to sci.electronics.design,rec.radio.amateur.antenna,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew
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Default Antenna Simulation in LTspice

On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 11:39:45 -0800, Jeff Liebermann
wrote:

Fortunately, WWVB is on-off
keying with no amplitude component, so there's no incentive to add an
AGC controlled input amplifier in order to maximize the A/D converters
dynamic range.


Oops. WWVB does have an amplitude component and is not quite on-off
keying (OOK). There's a -17dB drop in RF signal level at the
beginning of each 1 second marker pulse. It was -10dB prior to 2005.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWVB#Modulation_depth




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