Howdy,
Yesterday around 1:00 PM, I heard it using my IC703+ and a Miracle Whip, siffting on my front porch.
73
Ron Miller
N6MSA
> On Apr 20, 2014, at 3:13 PM, Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Doug,
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> I remember hearing them a couple of times a long time ago.
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> Phil.
> K0NX
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Payne" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2014 9:58 PM
> Subject: Re: WWV From Colorado
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>
>> Does anyone ever remember hearing VNG, The Australian time signal station
>> on
>> 12.000 mHz? I remember copying them late at night in Ohio throughout the
>> 80s. I think they've been gone quite a while now.
>>
>> --Doug, AC7T
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> On Behalf Of Phil Scovell
>> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 10:09 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: WWV From Colorado
>>
>> Denver is about 50 to 60 miles from WWV and there are lots of hills
>> between
>> here and Fort Collins where the antennas are. During the day, you would
>> normally think that their 2.5 signal would be booming into Denver but most
>> days, from noon to about 3 PM local, I can't copy them strong enough to
>> hear
>> the voice announcement. I can here the carrier, of course, but some days
>> I
>> just can bearly hear them on 2.5 MHz. The 5.0 frequency is fair during
>> the
>> afternoon but some nights is 40 over and a few times this winter, I copied
>> the actual female voice of WWVH in Hawaii on 5.0 as it transmits on the
>> same
>> frequency. She makes the announcement before the voice out of the Fort
>> Collins stations begins to talk and I have copied her over the WWV carrier
>> often over the years. The same is true on 10.0 and 15.0 MHz. I copied
>> the
>> carrier and her the voice in the noise on 20.0 and 25.0 but the one I copy
>> the best, being so close, is the 5.0 MHz as I said. In 1992 with my 2
>> element 40 meter beam at 70 feet, some mornings I copied WWVH on 5.0 at 40
>> over S9. In other times, I have copied, how be it a handful of time, WWVH
>> on the 2.5 MHz frequency, too, but that has been pretty rare. As I
>> recall,
>> most of those times were back in the mid to late seventies. I sure miss
>> hearing the time and condition levels given in CW like it was back then,
>> too. I've never been able to copy the atomic clock signals down there in
>> the 50 to 60 to 70 Hz range but of course I'm not using any kind of super
>> long wire, say 500 miles long, at that low frequency range, haha.
>>
>> Phil.
>> K0NX
>>
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