Re: WWVB reception indicator needed

From: Tim Shoppa (shoppa_at_trailing-edge.com)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: 28 Oct 2004 04:59:08 -0700

Joerg <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote in message news:<BGTfd.12234$6q2.11649@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com>...
> On a side note, something that blew me and others away: A visitor from
> Europe had problems adjusting his analog 'atomic' wrist watch. Their
> transmitter works on 77.5KHz so the clock didn't adjust to PST and since
> he forgot the manual we didn't see how to do that manually.

Typical Euro-doofus.

> Then while
> visiting Sequioa National Park it happened. Suddenly the hands started
> to move and the watch accurately set itself to PST.

????

> When he came back
> here it matched our WWVB clock to the second. Someone there must be
> running a site similar to DCF77, the time transmitter in Germany.

But broadcasting a time that's incorrect by 7 or 8 hours?????
(difference
between UTC and PST/PDT).

Unlicensed operations are allowed on longwave frequencies, but they're
limited to one watt and the frequency range is 160kHz to 190kHz
("lowfers").

It seems more likely to me that previous tinkering with the watch
finally "caught up" with it, maybe after it convinced itself there
was no usable signal on 77.5kHz for some extended period. All a
guess,
of course: How someone could knowing how to set an analog watch is
still the biggest mystery to me.

Tim.

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