[time-nuts] MSF 60KHz Problems?

[David J Taylor]

Is anyone else seeing anthing unusual with the MSF 60KHz signal from
Anthorn?

For the past 24 hours or so, at least, all I've been monitoring here,
approx 100 miles from Anthorn, is what seems to be a much weaker than usual
carrier that's pulsing at significantly faster than once per second. It's 
weak
enough that I wondered at first if it  possibly wasn't even MSF but
something else on the same  frequency.

There's no scheduled maintenance in my diary and I haven't been able to
find reference online to any problems, my first concern was that it  might 
be
an antenna problem but the Anthorn eLoran signals on 100KHz seem to  be
coming in fine on the same antenna.

What's really odd though is that several minutes ago I powered up  an EES
MSF clock from that same antenna feed and this has now  synchronised and is
displaying the correct time.

Regards

Nigel
GM8PZR
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Just checked at 15:53 UTC and the signal doesn't sound double-speed.  It's 
many years since I've listened to MSF as a background (!) but it doesn't 
sound wrong, and the strength doesn't seem way down.  All but one of the MSF 
clocks here are OK, and I recall that one clock having a completely wrong 
display recently but I didn't note down just when.  I've reset the battery 
in that clock and am waiting for it to display something valid!

73,
David GM8ARV
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