[Milsurplus] BC-221 with noisy tuning

[C.Whitaker]

de WB2CPN
Laboratories and designers of radio frequency equipment couldn't do
without a Standard Frequency source.  Now-a-days they use the VLF
signal, and have one-meter (?) loops on their roof.  I understand
that JJY and all the other "standards" in other countries coordinate
their clocks.  e.g. :UTC (in French) = Universal Coordinated Time in
English.
I still don't know how a thing as small as my wrist watch can pick up
WWV, but it does.
End of Trivia.
Clete
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On 6/11/2013 12:37 PM, John Hutchins wrote:
> WWV in opeation since 1922;
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWV_%28radio_station%29
> At the end of 1922, WWV's purpose shifted to broadcasting standard 
> frequency signals....
> So It may have been used in WWII.... as a reference?
> Hutch
>
> On 6/11/2013 4:30 AM, C.Whitaker wrote:
>> de WB2CPN
>> WWV was there when I went into USAF communications
>> in early 1946.   I don't know when JJY came along
>> Trivia, but when I aligned the BC-221 I had it out of the box,
>> a towel wrapped snugly around it, and a long handled
>> screwdriver.   I don't know if it was a common thing, but the
>> radio position in the C-47 we played with had a space for it.
>> Navy had a rack-sized generator in 1948 I used a few times.
>> Clete
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>>
>> On 6/10/2013 4:41 PM, J. Forster wrote:
>>> I wonder whether there were on-air frequency standards, like WWV, 
>>> during
>>> WWII?  Anybody know off-hand?
>>>
>>> -John
>>>
>>> ================
>>>
>>
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