Well, I just had a very odd experience today. I put the clock back in
service, but forgot to attach either the long wire antenna
or the extensible whip antenna. After a few minutes on 15Mhz in the
middle of the day, it picked up the time!
Attaching either the wire antenna or the whip made the signal stronger,
but brought in a *lot* more noise.
Maybe I have a local source of noise and the antennas have been making
it worse? I'm shocked that it picked up
anything with no antenna. I'm about 800 mi southwest of Fort Collins.
The Heathkit GC-1000 listens continuously.
Scott
Ed Palmer wrote:
I'm about 680 mi. straight north of Fort Collins. About a year ago,
I got an Odetics WWV receiver that remembers the reception results for
the last 7 days. It tells me that the only time it can get a lock on
WWV @ 10 MHz is between about 0800 and 1800 hours. It never gets a
signal in the evening or through the night. The antenna is an active
ferrite rod.
I think I remember that, years ago, the situation was reversed. You
could only hear WWV at night. Does your clock only listen at certain
times of day?
Ed
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