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A DCF77, WWVB, JJY and MSF clock LF-band signal transmitter using the Raspberry Pi

10 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 9 comments · first 2021-06-30 · latest 2026-08-07

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  1. …their window blinds for syncing to work reliably. I even looked into hacking my own transmitter ( https://github.com/hzeller/txtempus ) before giving up and just buying one of the models with bluetooth phone sync.
    comment by ncruces · 2026-08-07 · in Atomic Clocks
  2. …https://github.com/tanvach/clocksync https://github.com/kangtastic/timestation https://github.com/hzeller/txtempus WVB: A Tiny WWVB Station - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13258631 - December 2016 (49 comments) https://hn.algolia.
  3. You can use one of these to act as a local personal WWVB station amongst other things. See https://github.com/hzeller/txtempus and https://github.com/GOTO-GOSUB/Txtempus-Passive-Antenna
    comment by newman314 · 2026-02-05 · in Making Ferrite Core Inductors at Home
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    Txtempus: Radio time station transmitter using the Raspberry Pi
    story by beala · 2025-12-22 · 0 comments
  5. …If not, maybe txtempus[1] and a Raspberry Pi Zero W can help. Or pico_dcf77_tx[2] and a Pico W. 1: https://github.com/hzeller/txtempus 2: https://github.com/elehobica/pico_dcf77_tx
  6. Related thread with local transmitters of time signal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27769403 https://github.com/hzeller/txtempus (A DCF77, WWVB, JJY and MSF clock LF-band signal transmitter using the Raspberry Pi) ios and mac app:…
    comment by toomuchtodo · 2023-08-16 · in Casio G-Shock time sync radio
  7. Something that might be of interest: https://github.com/hzeller/txtempus I live in an area without decent WWVB reception. So one of these days, my plan is to build a house range WWVB antenna so that I can get all the radio clocks in my…
    comment by newman314 · 2022-02-20 · in How Does NTP (Network Time Protocol) Work?
  8. https://github.com/hzeller/txtempus I made one for my Citizen RF synced watch. It works.
  9. …a transmitter and may breach local RF regulations) We're outside the footprint of jjy, wwvb or dcf https://github.com/hzeller/txtempus
  10. …pi local transmitter model and it runs off ntp. Using it to sync my citizen watch in Australia. https://github.com/hzeller/txtempus
    comment by ggm · 2021-06-30 · in DCF77