tg2

[Hal Murray]

    Document that tg2.c may need to be rewritten, and is likely obsolete
    
    The WWV family is gone.
    Use this as a start to attempt a compile:
    gcc -I ../build/ -I ../include/ -I ../libisc/unix/include/ \
        -I ../libisc/include/ tg2.c

tg2 is far from obsolete.  It is actually a useful utility.

It makes various flavors of IRIG which is a popular standard (with many 
variations) for sending time info over an audio channel.  It's used on lots 
of old gear, like many channel tape recorders collecting data for things like 
flight tests.

There is some documentation in a comment at the top of the source code.

There is an IRIG refclock.  We should be able to use headphones to debug tg2 
and then use tg2 to debug the IRIG driver, and then use other modes of tg2 to 
debug some of the other audio drivers.

I just fixed waf to build tg2 on Linux.  I haven't managed to get any audio 
out yet.  It may be a bug in the code.  The audio stuff hasn't been tested 
much.  It may be that it is something simple like it needs a few magic 
keystrokes on alsamixer.  Or both.  It does make sounds on NetBSD.

If anybody is familiar with audio on Linux, please give it a try and see if 
you can figure out how to get sound out.  You can test with a pair of 
headphones.

It needs "modprobe snd-pcm-oss" to setup /dev/audio and chmod...

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The transmitters for the WWV family are alive.

What is "gone" is high quality receivers for WWVB.  Those are unlikely to 
return.  The low price chips used in battery powered clocks are likely to 
return in some form.  Or somebody may design a receiver that is reasonable 
for hobbyists to build.





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