[time-nuts] Radio based time stations
-Original Message- Chuck wrote - _ Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:16:29 -0400 From: Chuck Harris cfhar...@erols.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] 60 KHz Receiver To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement snip And if you are worried about the station being in North America, there are time stations in virtually every corner of the world. _ Sad to say, Chuck, those stations are fading fast. Many nations have dropped out of the business of providing time in that fashion in the last decade or so. Australia was one of the more notable recent losses. I don't believe that the African continent has a single station left. Even CHU was being eyed speculatively by the Canadian powers a while back. Overall, we probably now have a quarter to a third of the SW time stations compared to those that that existed 20 years ago. I suspect that the increasing availability of cheap GPSDO gear to the average Joe had a lot to do with it. Lee ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
Re: [time-nuts] Radio based time stations
Lee Reynolds writes: Overall, we probably now have a quarter to a third of the SW time stations compared to those that that existed 20 years ago. I think too many radio-controlled alarmclocks have been sold for the remaning big VLF stations to disappear any time soon... Shortwave ? I can live without those, as far as I know we never really had any here in europe... Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
Re: [time-nuts] Radio based time stations
Hi I believe that we have 1/4 the shortwave services we had 20 years ago. Not just for time, but the whole set of commercial / governmental transmitting setups. Bob On Oct 5, 2010, at 7:30 AM, Lee Reynolds wrote: -Original Message- Chuck wrote - _ Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:16:29 -0400 From: Chuck Harris cfhar...@erols.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] 60 KHz Receiver To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement snip And if you are worried about the station being in North America, there are time stations in virtually every corner of the world. _ Sad to say, Chuck, those stations are fading fast. Many nations have dropped out of the business of providing time in that fashion in the last decade or so. Australia was one of the more notable recent losses. I don't believe that the African continent has a single station left. Even CHU was being eyed speculatively by the Canadian powers a while back. Overall, we probably now have a quarter to a third of the SW time stations compared to those that that existed 20 years ago. I suspect that the increasing availability of cheap GPSDO gear to the average Joe had a lot to do with it. Lee ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
Re: [time-nuts] Radio based time stations
Hi Poul-HenningOh yes we did ! but the closed a long time ago. MSF was on 2.5, 5 and 10 Mc/s:-)) (It only hertz when I laugh) OMA similar HBG there may have been others. I seem to remember the HF stations took it in turns to transmit Alan G3NYK - Original Message - From: Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk To: kd...@spamcop.net; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 12:34 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Radio based time stations Lee Reynolds writes: Overall, we probably now have a quarter to a third of the SW time stations compared to those that that existed 20 years ago. I think too many radio-controlled alarmclocks have been sold for the remaning big VLF stations to disappear any time soon... Shortwave ? I can live without those, as far as I know we never really had any here in europe... Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
