[time-nuts] any WWV audio recordings available?

[Ed Palmer]

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

Scott Burris wrote:
> The second recording still did not get the clock to sync.
>
> So I tried an all up test, setting a WaveTek 288 signal generator to 
> 5Mhz at -47db,
> and used your audio to AM modulate the signal.  This gets the AGC amp 
> back into
> the picture.  And it successfully decoded, saying 10:15 PST!
>
> The synthetic recording also worked via RF.
>
> So I guess I'm concluding that the clock had some bad electrolytic 
> capacitors, which I
> fixed, and I'm now going through a crummy reception period for WWV.  I 
> used to be
> able to get WWV on 5 or 10 Mhz overnight with just a wire strung out 
> from the clock,
> but that doesn't seem to be cutting it anymore.
>
> Thanks for the assistance.
>
> Scott
>
> Majdi S. Abbas wrote:
>>     There was a lot of fading present; possibly too much for the
>> receiver to work with.
>>
>>     Try this recording instead:
>>
>>     http://puck.nether.net/~majdi/WWV-10MHZ.wav
>>
>>     Still some of the usual fading, but not nearly as bad as the
>> other night.
>>
>>     --msa