[time-nuts] new WWVB BPSK dev board

[Attila Kinali]

On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 06:29:01 -0800
"Richard (Rick) Karlquist" <richard at karlquist.com> wrote:

> Interesting:  isn't 162 kHz within the European
> Long Wave Broadcast Band?  Wouldn't there be a
> problem with QRM from these megawatt stations?
> Excuse the naive questions; we don't have longwave
> in the states, so no experience here.

Indeed it is. Allouis is a former LW band radio station,
which the French used as time signal station as well[1].
But that also means that it is a much stronger transmitter
than e.g. DCF77 (2MW vs 50kW if wikipedia is correct)

			Attila Kinali

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allouis_longwave_transmitter

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