[time-nuts] BPSK decoder for WWVB

Dennis Ferguson dennis.c.ferguson at gmail.com
Thu Jul 4 00:20:05 UTC 2013


On 3 Jul, 2013, at 14:03 , Tim Shoppa <tshoppa at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have also heard YVTO on 5MHz underneath both WWV and WWVH, strangely
> off-kilter by half a second or so.

When BPM does that, like maybe at the beginning of this

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRaRB-x84xg

I think it is because they are transmitting UT1 pips rather
than UTC pips.  I assume this might be convenient for celestial
navigation users, though I can't imagine that there are a whole
lot of those left.

Dennis Ferguson



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