[time-nuts] WWV/WWVH audio simulator?

[Jim Cotton]

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 <bob91343 at yahoo.com> 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.)
>