[Lowfer] East Coast version of WWVB?
Mike WE0H
we0h at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 18 10:29:18 EST 2008
Put it in Bill's backyard...hi hi...
Mike
Stan wrote:
> Hello The Net:
>
> It does beg the question of where it may be placed.
>
> Could be co located at a LORAN-C secondary or master site. After all,
> they have an antenna that could be loaded up at 40 KHz.
> They already have a Cs reference for accurate timing, as well as a
> government facility with security, electrical power sources,
> as well as a pool of qualified labor to keep it running.
>
> Probably not, 2 gov agencies cooperating, low likelyhood....
>
> Probably best in the Virginia area or Eastern Maryland. Maybe at
> another Gov site.
>
> Otis on Cape Cod could support it, I always wanted a job I could walk
> to or bicycle to.
> I could always be a janitor, keeping the signals clean..
> We already have the Coast Guards largest HF antenna site and a ~517
> KHz, NAVTEX site
>
> Possibly that Navy site near Pennobscot Bay, but maybe not, it is a
> LORAN receiving site
> Maybe at the big HF site in Moscow Maine, probably all overgrown by now.
>
> Still thinking.....
>
>
> Stan, W1LE
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