[BC] WWV

[Wayne Woollard]

Is it just me or is it exceptionally quiet around the BC net today?
Wayne Woollard
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gRAdy Moates" <lists at loudandclean.com>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: [BC] WWV


>    These kinds of stories are why I love this business. . . 
> and I've been to WARE, myself.  One of my clients 
> "almost" bought it.  
> 
>    "Almost."  
> 
> Grady 
> 
>> My first radio station job was at WARE, 1250 kHz, 1/4 the frequency of
>> 5 Mhz WWV. I would zero-beat the crystal oscillator against WWV
>> once a week when I did transmitter maintenance on Sunday Night.
>> Little did I know that sometime in the future I would be the designer
>> of some WWV transmitters! It turns out they are nothing special except
>> they need broadcast quality on shortwave (so the ticks don't get
>> screwed up) and a BNC connect to take the input frequency as
>> 1 volt in 50 ohms.
>> 
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Richard B. Johnson
>> 
>>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
>> From: RLO2L at aol.com
>>> Many years ago when a telephone technician at AT&T in Ft. 
>>> Wayne,  Indiana, I ran up a length of frame wire to the microwave 
>>> tower on the third  floor of the Central Office building to receive 
>>> the WWV signals to beat against  some of our microwave 
>>> generator test equipment.
>>>
>>> Much to my surprise I was able to receive not only WWV out of 
>>> Fort Collins, but delayed by some short time period, we also 
>>> were able to receive the code and voice ID of WWVH in Hawaii !
> 
> 
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