[Milsurplus] BC-221 with noisy tuning

J. Forster jfor at quikus.com
Tue Jun 11 18:20:11 EDT 2013


Oooops!!  WWVB not WWV

-John

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> Not so much. Now it's pretty much GPS and disciplined Rb oscillators.
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> WWV has added BPSK modulation, which renders many Phase Tracking
> receivers, like the HP 117A useless w/o modifications.
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> -John
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>> 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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