Several years ago I had the opportunity to visit the WWVH site on Kaua'i. I drove into the site, found the office, went in and there was NO ONE there. Oh, well...I signed the visitor log and scanned through it, noticing the large number of hams who had visited. I even recognized some of the calls.
After 15 minutes with no sign of life, I was getting ready to leave, when in walks the chief engineer decked out in his climbing gear. He had been up on the 2.5 MHz vertical dipole doing some maintenance, saw me drive in and climbed down to greet me! It turns out there is only one person on the site at any one time and it's not manned at night or on weekends. There are alarms on each of the transmitters which will shut them down if there are any problems and dial the home of one of the site operators. So then I got the full 25cent tour. The transmitters are sort of ho-hum, just off the shelf commercial 10kW rigs of various manufacture. There might be a 20kW unit but I don't remember. What was of real interest was the "frequency/time" room. A real ham shack!! Lots of 6' racks with a variety of LMBs hanging by their power leads or coax. Old pieces of gear gathering dust in a corner, a work bench with pieces of gear and PC boards in various states of repair. All of the frequency and time standards. Any way, a very interesting place. The engineer wasn't a ham but was used to dealing with the strange breed and was most gracious. I was there for over an hour and I think he was just happy to have someone to talk to. Doug W6JD ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 8:30 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Atomic Clocks and Aluminum Siding > In a message dated 1/8/05 11:04:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > writes: > > > > I believe WWVB is on 80KHz, > > 60 kHz. > > -- > > Anybody else on this reflector ever been to the WWV transmitter site? I was > there circa 1992. > > 73 de Jim, N2EY > _______________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Post to: [email protected] > You must be a subscriber to post to the list. > Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm > Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
