[ARC5] NSS Cutler, ME

[Richard Knoppow]

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From: D C _Mac_ Macdonald 

Sent: Nov 27, 2013 8:57 AM

To: "WB6KBL Knoppow, Richard" <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>, "KM1H Carl H." , "Fuqua, Bill L" , W7EKB Ken Gordon , ARC-5 Mail List 

Subject: RE: [ARC5] NSS Cutler, ME






Were time signals (ala WWV) once sent from a "Naval Observatory?"  Was that once the location of WWV? 

Something like this seems to come from the deep and hard to access recesses of my memory from the 1950s. 
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       Time signals were sent from naval radio stations before WWV was set up and continued for decades.  I remember listening to the signals from NSS.  It was a series of dots a second apart with breaks indicating the minute.  About five minutes of dots were sent preceding a dash indicating the hour.  I don't remember how often these signals were sent but they were not continuous as were the WWV signals.
     There is a short history of WWV at
http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/wwv-history.cfm

Time signals from the Naval Observatory predate WWV, see

 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1940PASP...52...17H

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_signal

     A google search for Naval Observatory will find a lot of additional stuff.