*DCF77* is in Germany.  Not an ideal location for reception in North
America.

 I suppose America's version of DCF77 is NIST WWVB near Fort Collins,
Colorado on 60khz.
http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/wwvb.cfm







On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Shoppa, Tim <[email protected]> wrote:

> Not sure where Brian is located but...
>
> For a few hours on a few winter nights I can semi-regularly receive DCF77
> at my QTH in MD, USA. But I'm not sure I've ever picked it out of the noise
> in the summer (when remember we have less night-time!)
>
> I would not recommend DCF77 for any North American sites except as a LF
> propagation curiosity comparison.
>
> Tim N3QE
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Roeckx
> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 10:40 AM
> To: Brian Rak
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Pool] Free Meinberg PCI express clocks
>
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:11:34AM -0400, Brian Rak wrote:
> > Hm, anyone know if DCF77 ones would require an antenna on the outside
> > of the building?  We could make use of them, but we have no way to get
> > an antenna to the outside of the building.. only within our
> > datacenter.
>
> I think you should be more concerned that you can receive DCF77 at all
> where you live.  It's a transmitter in Mainflingen, Germany (near
> Frankfurt) with a range of about 1500 km / 2000 km.
>
> It works perfectly here inside, but then I'm only about 200 km from it,
> and haven't used it for ntp.
>
>
> Kurt
>
>
> > On 7/27/2012 1:27 AM, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
> > >Hi everyone,
> > >
> > >If you haven't seen it already, be sure to lookup
> > >http://news.ntppool.org/2012/07/meinberg-ntp-equipment-raffle.html and
> http://www.meinberg.de/english/info/pc-clocks-for-ntp-pool.htm this
> weekend!
> > >
> > >(Sorry about posting this so late, I was traveling for a few weeks).
> > >
> > >
> > >Ask
> > >
> >
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