[time-nuts] Problems with CHU

Ruslan Nabioullin rnabioullin at gmail.com
Thu Feb 16 19:20:51 UTC 2017


Bob Camp wrote:
> Once upon a time it was done with a mechanical marvel of a device.

And before those electromechanical contraptions, there was this :):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaking_clock#/media/File:1937TimeVoice.jpg

-Ruslan

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 1:18 PM, Bob Camp <kb8tq at n1k.org> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Not quite sure what happened to the original message before it got here …
>
> The voice / time announcements on WWV and CHU date back quite a ways. I
> wonder just
> how old the gear they currently are using is? Once upon a time it was done
> with a
> mechanical marvel of a device.
>
> Bob
>
>
> > On Feb 16, 2017, at 12:52 PM, jmfranke at cox.net wrote:
> >
> > I meant to type 7.850 MHz, re-engaged brain.
> >
> > John WA4WDL
> >
> > ---- jmfranke at cox.net wrote:
> >>
> >> I do not know if anyone has noticed, but since sometime before 17:00
> UTC, the voice announcements on the 7.8350 kHz signal have been messed up.
> Some times they are missing, other times they are incorrect. I have not
> checked the other frequencies. I was working in my workshop and switched to
> CHU to stay aware of the time and noticed the discrepancies.
> >>
> >> John  WA4WDL
> >
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