[Milsurplus] BC-221 with noisy tuning

[Bill Carns]

Your watch is not picking up WWV....  It is picking up WWVB, the LF station
related to WWV. Your body is  the antenna. Since it is short for that
frequency, it is capacitive...so holding a big inductor in your right hand
and facing north will help with reception.

:-)

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[mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of C.Whitaker
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 3:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] BC-221 with noisy tuning

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
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>
>> 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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