[Elecraft] SW broadcast to calibrate against.

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

Thank you Dave, as always, your response is invaluable.

Yes, I was finding it hard to determine what to listen to and was concerned
about accuracy - I used 7200.

Good luck in AFS CW tomorrow.


On 12/1/08 19:06, "G3YMC" <dave at davesergeant.com> sent:

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> 
> 
> M0XDF wrote:
>> 
>> I'd like to get a list of KNOWN frequencies of broadcast stations in 10 -
>> 40m in the UK - it's been pointed out tpo me that using BBC WS at 648 KHz
>> is
>> a not so good, because its a low freq.
>> 
> 
> David
> 
> (by the way, you can now delete the 'Waiting for K3' from your
> signature...).
> 
> We are unfortunate in Europe that after MSF stopped broadcasting time
> standards on HF (apart from 60kHz) in not having a reliable standard to
> check against. WWV (always recommended by Elecraft) is normally inaudible
> here. The only available one is RWM on 9998kHz (also on 14996) and is what I
> originally used to calibrate my K2 against. But I can't even hear that at
> the moment...
> 
> For a rough check, most of the broadcast stations at 7MHz are fairly
> accurate and on the 5kHz intervals. I just checked and the one on 7200 is
> pretty spot on as far as I am concerned.
> 
> 73 Dave G3YMC

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