[ARC5] NSS Cutler, ME

[D C _Mac_ Macdonald]

If you'll check the first URL below (the one actually FROM NIST) you'll see that the Colorado site came on the air in 1966. My experience goes back to 1954, several months after my KN2GKK Novice ticket was issued in Nov '53. 

 

73 - Mac, K2GKK


 

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> Subject: Re: [ARC5] NSS Cutler, ME
> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:35:10 -0600
> To: k2gkk at hotmail.com
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> When I became a swl in 1965 I found wwv at 10mhz and the announcement was this is wwv. National bureau of standard time Fort Collins Colorado etc etc
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> > On Nov 27, 2013, at 12:30 PM, D C _Mac_ Macdonald <k2gkk at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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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> > * 73 - Mac, K2GKK/5 * 
> > * (Since 30 Nov 53) * 
> > * k2gkk hotmail com * 
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> >> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 10:12:39 -0800
> >> From: 1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
> >> To: k2gkk at hotmail.com; geoffrey at jeremy.mv.com; wlfuqu00 at uky.edu; kgordon2006 at frontier.com; arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> >> Subject: Re: [ARC5] NSS Cutler, ME
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> >> -----Original Message-----
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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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> >> * 73 - Mac, K2GKK/5 * 
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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.