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If planning/designing a timing system like this using existing antenna, why wouldn't you choose to use cellular base stations? The cellular network reaches most places with overlapping coverage and carries network time. The lowest cellular frequencies are adjacent the upper broadcast TV channels. Aren't modern cellular receivers what we call software defined radios? They can choose which channels to receive.


Interestingly, cellular base stations are one of the major customers for high precision timing systems.

They use precise timing to coordinate timed broadcast slots between base stations with overlapping coverage.




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