I have played WWV or CHU when I want to know the time but not be
bothered by extraneous sounds.
I live in Michigan, USA. When I built my first homebrew RF spectrum
analyzer
I found that I had to spend a week stopping CHU and another local AM station
from coming in on the power line.
A cheap Sony SW receiver from eBay would work.
Jim
On 1/3/14 1:31 PM, Brian Lloyd wrote:
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Bob Albert <[email protected]> wrote:
Jayson,
I chuckle because WWV is my favorite radio station also.
Why not tune it in on a good day and record the audio? Then you can
digitize it on the computer and have a .WAV file which you can play any
time.
Trouble is, if you have recorded the announcements, you won't have the
correct time. But it might be fun to write a program that generates the
correct figures. After all, NIST must have that software - perhaps you can
ask them to share it.
I just checked and WWV does not stream audio over the internet. You can get
it through the phone.
But why not just set up a receiver and listen to that? I can't remember a
time when WWV wasn't audible on at least one of its frequencies. Shortwave
receivers that will tune 2.5MHz, 5MHz, 10MHz, 15MHz, and 20MHz are not
expensive, especially if you look for something on eBay. That will also
allow you to tune in CHU for a change. (One can often hear WWV or CHU in my
house.)
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