On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 Murray Greenman wrote:
> I've also observed that JJY40 is now off the air. It has been excellent
> reception down here in New Zealand for many years, generally better than
> the JJY signal on 60kHz, where of course it competes with other signals.
>
> JJY40 was typically strong enough to hear by ear during the day as well
> as at night here, and fades considerably for an hour or two at sunrise
> and sunset. There is some evidence that Japanese radio-controlled
> ('Atomic') clocks work in New Zealand using this signal, as there is no
> closer source.Murray, I was delighted this morning (10 May 2011) to see that my little radio controlled clock that I have in Christchurch, NZ ( 9,518 Km from JJY40 ) indicated that it had synced using the 40KHz JJY signal. So after free running for something like 2 months, my radio clock is once again correct. The JJY40 station had been closed due to being inside the exclusion zone of the Fukushima nuclear accident from the Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami on March 11th 2011. Regards, Geoff _______________________________________________ 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.
