*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 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > pool mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool > > > _______________________________________________ > pool mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool > _______________________________________________ > pool mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool >
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