Greg, I am curious how you determined that WWVB is off the air ? What receiving rquipment do you use ? What kind of antenna ?
On NIST's WWVB web site they indicate that it is up and running fine. I can hear WWVB on my ham radio set, albeit at a very low level because my antenna is not, at all, useful down at 60KHz and my tuner will not adjust to that low of a frequency. One last point, it does the rest of us no good to say ". . . in my geographical area . . ." if "we" do not have any idea where the hell that is. As for the converter boxes, I cannot address that even though I have a couple around here someplace. I do not recall mine showing a date or time, but then again I never paid much attention to that. Right now, here in San Diego, California, my date is Oct 1, 2009 and the time is 1956 hours (7:56 pm). Bill....WB6BNQ Greg Burnett wrote: > How do US TV stations disseminate time to DTV converter boxes? ...And is > this time derived from GPS data, or??? > > The question comes up tonight because, for some reason in my geographical > area, the time indicated in the TV Guides of all DTV converter boxes is 1 > hour behind. We see the same symptom in at least two separate cities, > separated by 70 miles - and regardless of which TV channel we select. We are > seeing the same symptom on several different brands of DTV boxes. This > symptom just began this afternoon or evening. > > Any comments or information? > > Greg > > P.S. Side note: WWVB has been off the air many times in the last few weeks. > They're currently off the air. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
