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WWV to keep Geo-Alert
Great news for those of you who listen to space weather forecasts on WWV, from Fort Collins, Colorado or WWVH from Hawaii. It appears that NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center is going to continue...
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Don’t expect WWV to only give you the time of day
WWV building in Fort Collins, Colorado (photo courtesy: NIST) Last Monday, while taking a walk and listening to a Tecsun PL-380 in review, I tuned to WWV (10,000 kHz) at 10 minutes after the hour. I...
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WWVB conducting tests on air now through March 10
WWV building in Fort Collins, Colorado (photo courtesy: NIST) (Source: NIST) IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR WWVB RADIO STATION USERS Radio Station WWVB will be conducting a test of a new broadcast format from...
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Grandfather of WWV’s atomic clock
I just discovered a film produced by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) Film Unit in the 1950s explaining the principles behind the first accurate atomic clock. The clock was designed by Louis...
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History of WWV and the NIST Time Stations
WWV building in Fort Collins, Colorado (photo courtesy: NIST) Many readers know that I’m a bit of a WWV geek, so you can imagine how happy I was when my buddy, Mike, and the Southgate ARC made me aware...
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WWVB celebrates 50 years of quietly keeping time
WWV building in Fort Collins, Colorado (photo courtesy: NIST) Thanks, David, for sharing a link to this brilliant article on the history and future of WWVB: (Source: Wired) Every night, while millions...
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WWV: experimental broadcasts on 25 MHz
WWV format (Click to enlarge) Want to catch WWV–the Fort Collins-based time station–on a frequency they haven’t used since 1977? The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has sent out...
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Listening to WWV at the source: Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
If you haven’t already guessed it: yes, the mystery broadcast site I posted on Thursday was WWV/WWVB in Fort Collins, Colorado. Well done, responders! Specifically, the photo shows the southern...
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Can you help George identify the mystery pip?
WWV format SWLing Post reader, George (NJ3H), writes: I quite often see a spike in the evening on 4996 khz. From the listing, this is suppose to be RWM, in Moscow, a time signal station. When I listen...
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Dan’s WWVH QSL cards
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Amoroso (W3DI – WPE3DNC) for scans of his QSLs from WWVH in Kekaha, HI:
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Hang on a second…seriously
One of four WWV time code generators in late August, 2014 Tonight, for the first time in three years, we will experience a leap second. What is a leap second? Wikipedia provides a concise explanation:...
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Recording the 2015 Leap Second
Yesterday, I posted a brief article about the leap second that occurred between 23:59:59 June 30, 2015 and 00:00:00 UTC July 01, 2015. I decided to record the leap second on as many shortwave time...
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Shortwave Radio Recordings: WWV changes announcement format,1971
WWV’s transmitter building in Fort Collins, Colorado (2014) Shortwave Radio Audio Archive contributor, Brian D. Smith, recently contacted me; I was enthused when he described the recording he was...
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Updated release: “At The Tone: A Little History of NIST Radio Stations WWV &...
Almost five years ago, I wrote about a unique collection of archived recordings called At The Tone: A Little History of NIST Radio Stations WWV & WWVH. Producer Myke Dodge Weiskopf recently...
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WWV History: Richard’s QSL cards
Sign from the original WWV tranmitter site in Maryland, currently posted outside of the Fort Collins, Colorado transmitter building. (Photo: Thomas Witherspoon) Commenting on our post about Myke’s new...
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The Empire Strikes Back: Is that WWV I hear?
With all of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens hype going on, I remembered that, as a kid, I thought I heard WWV in a scene from The Empire Strikes Back. I looked through some video clips of the movie...
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Time station CHU in The Empire Strikes Back
Earlier today, I published a post noting that I thought I heard the time station WWV in a scene of The Empire Strikes Back. SWLing Post reader, RadioGeek, quickly corrected me: that’s Canadian time...
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Star Wars sound designer is, indeed, a radio enthusiast
SWLing Post readers may remember a post I recently published in which I believed I’d identified a familiar shortwave time signal station in the Battle of Hoth scene from The Empire Strikes Back. If you...
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Paul discovers Firedrake in an unexpected place
(Photo: Satdirectory.com) Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Paul Walker, who writes: From time to time, I get some interesting shortwave catches here in Alaska. Sometimes on 10 MHz, I get WWV....
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Leap second added to 2016
(Source: NPR) Here’s a timely reminder for all you would-be revelers out there: Be careful with your countdowns this New Year’s Eve. There will be a little extra time to bask in the glow of a...
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