[NLRS] Link -- New phase-modulation WWVB signal

Gordon L Snarr gsnarr at gninc.ca
Wed Mar 13 09:52:03 EDT 2013


I have an "Atomic Time" dual zone radio controlled wall clock in the 
shack here that didn't want to self adjust for a year or two. All of a 
sudden a few months ago it started picking up the time signal again and 
has been working flawlessly since then. Maybe this clock was designed to 
pick up the phase modulation... seems quite a coincidence it started 
working again when the broadcast changed. It even did the automatic DST 
last Sunday. I don't remember it ever doing that in the past. Was 
thinking of attaching an external antenna to it somehow but that was a 
project that was too low on the priority list, now maybe I won't have to!
Only drawback to this clock is the DST also affects the GMT side, 
suppose the clock was designed for the average home user that wouldn't 
be interested in zulu time and would display the month/day on the second 
part of the digital display. I just go into the menu and select an 
offset of -1 hour on the Z side and it goes back to reading the proper time.

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Gord Snarr VE4GLS
Box 13, R.R.3
Morris, MB
R0G 1K0
Canada
www.gsfarm.ca



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