[ARC5] NSS Cutler, ME

[D C _Mac_ Macdonald]

The reason for my question was that I remember time announcements in the early years of my "ham career" which began in Nov '53 that stated (IIRC) "Naval Observatory Time is..." 

 
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> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 10:12:39 -0800
> From: 1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
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> Subject: Re: [ARC5] NSS Cutler, ME
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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
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> Were time signals (ala WWV) once sent from a "Naval Observatory?" Was that once the location of WWV? 
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> 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
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> Time signals from the Naval Observatory predate WWV, see
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> http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1940PASP...52...17H
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_signal
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> A google search for Naval Observatory will find a lot of additional stuff.