Hearing WWV when I was 5 or 6 was my first glimpse into shortwave radio. As a kid, I always felt sorry for the man who had to sit in a room all day and tell the time every minute. LOL.
David Dietrich in the early 2000’s I picked up the Cuban equivalent of WWV on my shortwave. It was two announcers live, a woman and a man. They would alternate announcing the time manually (with an automated tone), interspersed with news about the “socialist paradise”.
@@CrimLawGeek In all my SWL years I never heard anything besides CHU and WWV/H, never heard the Mexican or Cuban or Soviet or Chinese or Australian ones!
Not only is it good for knowing what time it is, the carrier is an excellent frequency reference for calibrating signal generators and aligning radios.
@Free in Jesus My understanding is that the WWV carrier frequencies are derived from the master NIST frequency standard (ie, _the_ master clock), so it's as good or better than the GPS signal.
11:51 That "gigantic magnetic drum" he talks about was the recording and playback machine from the Audichron Company out of Atlanta Georgia. The designer and owner of this licensed device was a Mr. Barbee, who just happened to be the husband of Jane Barbee, otherwise known as "The Time Lady" whose voice was recorded for time announcements. Jane's voice was "the most listened to voice on planet earth". Her voice is still heard on Radio WWVH out of Hawaii.
Audichron supplies the same devices for Time of Day and Weather services - originally for AT&T. "They were mentioned in (The Andromeda Strain" as well - the book.)
Thanks for this video tour, I have never seen a video tour of WWV so this was very interesting. This station goes back to my first short wave station discovered when I was a kid and it was a mystery to me at the time and from that I thought there was a whole new world of radio out there that I didn't know about. Thanks, WWV, it is about time.
Same here. Always wondered how the heck I hear this beeping, clicking, and a guy's voice from a Hallicrafter's SX-110. THAT sold me on radio and electronics :)
I still have fond memories of discovering a relative's WWII vintage Hallicrafters SWR, and finding WWV as the only continuous and strong broadcasts that I could receive on it with a random wire antenna made from what I could scrounge. I used the same radio to pull in WLS-AM in Chicago (and CHU) down in Texas, my first taste of DX. Who knows what might have happened if I had been allowed to take that radio home and/or hook it up to a decent antenna. Years later, working in television and familiar with SMPTE time code, I remembered WWV and became acquainted with IRIG-B. It's been a while since I've _listened_ to WWV, but now that I'm living in a place where i can use it to set my clocks, I've been happy to have it again. My Timex/Motorola Flex watch quit self-setting when pagers went out of style, and my Ambient clock stopped setting itself when the local FM station that carried the Accuweather signal that it got its data from stopped carrying it. If WWV/WWVB go dark, we'll be taking a giant leap backwards.
@@ShutterMafiaStudios1 thanks! Actually I'm more on the engineering side; my moniker is an homage to a real person I saw in Chicago. I think I was a TD back then, a buddy of mine learned that the MTX factory in Chicago was closing and moving to the other side of the Mississippi, and we went to get some clearance deals. On our way out we saw that a nearby building was on fire in a big way. Fire trucks everywhere, we couldn't leave so we watched. Although the cops weren't letting us drive off, someone comes barreling onto the scene in an old Buick Skylark, parks among the emergency vehicles and this guy gets out, opens the trunk and pulls out a complete set of turnout gear, including an air tank. I grew up in the suburbs where we had volunteer firefighters, so I didn't think much of it until he then pulls a quarter-million dollar ENG camcorder rig out of the trunk of his $500 beater! That got my attention. He puts the camera on his shoulder and walks straight to the blaze, and that's the last I saw of him. I asked a cop that he had been chatting with before and ask what his deal was. The cop explained that the guy was a freelancer, and made his living selling news footage to TV stations that he beat to breaking news scenes, or even asked him to shoot footage because they couldn't commit a whole news truck to the story. He pointed to the car's personalized license plates: "STRNGR1". I had heard of news stringers from B/W movies, they were portrayed as people that no newspaper would hire, peddling dubious stories to editors and being generally shady people, but this guy seemed to be the real deal. Fast forward to ten years ago. I was in Madison on a contract job. My polling place was next door to the NBC affiliate, so I decided to drop in and ask if there was an email address for the engineering department. Next thin I know I was face to face with the stations chief engineer, and he was inviting me to see them put up a new antenna. Wisconsinites are friendly people and before long I know every station engineer in town. Things had changed a lot, and TV doesn't have the staff levels it used to have, like there's no 24-hour news staff. Most overnight video is shot by viewers, and predictably in portrait mode, one of my pet peeves. I'm a night owl, and my new friends tell me that if I want to see better video, I should _shoot_ better video for them when I'm out at night. Really cheap thumb drives didn't quite exist back then, so after not getting back a couple of costly SD cards I finally made this YT account. Ironically I never used it for that purpose...
Recapping and realigning my dad's old S-107 got me started on collecting and restoring vintage shortwave radios. Probably have half a dozen different Hallicrafters models in line to be restored, and a bunch of others as well. Cold winter days/evenings are perfect for working at the workbench on the latest project. :-)
I've been listening to WWV since 1954 when it was Eastern Standard Time. It also gave a propagation code with a letter and a number e.g. N 7 meaning No Change and 7 was an indicator of good atmospheric conditions. Never tire of hearing this wonderful bong bong and more. W2FKN
The first time I heard WWV on HF 5 Mhz, was back in the 70's as an SWL here in the UK, when I visited a ham friend of mine Martin Betts. He tuned in WWV on a Marconi CR100 receiver he was going to give me. That old CR100 receiver which he had renovated and aligned, was near enough spot on frequency at 5 Mhz, with hardly any band noise. I can still remember listening to that almost ghost like hollow clicking WWV transmission, and thinking this is a pretty neat sound :) All I can hear on 5.000 Mhz today is a lot of QRN from local electrical noise, and broadband ADSL2, which is a big difference to what it used to be back in the day. Hopefully Propagation conditions will improve tonight, would love to hear WWV again. Thanks for showing us around.
In an infinite space-time, the most definable point, is the center. WWV being the most accurate time station, is that point. Even more accurate than any natural phenomena. Fort Collins is thusly, the center of the universe. 73 de AE7EC
thanks live. i kind of thought the same thing now that you mention it. he was just being funny. thanks for watching and your great comment! i might go back and do another video so please sub to see another video! peace
@@ShutterMafiaStudios1 yeah. Wasn't funny to me. I'm a ham operator myself but I gladly share my knowledge to elmers. There's just a number of "amateur" arrogant minded know all jerks still out there. Thanks for sharing your videos. Good job there. 73s
As a kid, it had to be 1960 at December 31 at midnight at the beginning of the New Year, January 1, 1961, I was outside with a transistor radio listening to WWV and did my best to make a firecracker (actually a cherry bomb) go off at exactly the WWV tone of the New Year. I may have been off a second or two but I did the best I could. I suppose that is a bit obsessive and I haven't changed a bit at 74. Got my general class amateur license in 1963. Thanks, WWV. 🙂
20:16 Audichron Co., was owned by Jane Barbe's husband. Jane was the voice of WWVH. She also was "The Time Lady" for the Bell Telephone Co. for decades, and she was " The most frequently heard voice in the entire world." Audichron made the physical rotating drum machines that accurately told time all over the world. Even though Jane passed away a number of years ago, Jane's voice can still be heard on WWVH, 5.0 Mhz A.M. broadcasting from Hawaii. She will always be "The Time Lady" to listeners around the world.
I remember this station when we first heard it on shortwave radio in Saskatoon, Sask, Canada back in the late 80s. The 500 and 600 hz tones drove my dad nuts. Surprisingly, the signal was very good on 10 Mhz at night. If I'm not mistaken, your tour guide is WWV's chief engineer Matthew Deutch. Thanks for the vid, it's really cool to see what this station looks like.
thank you for your awesome comment. it was really cool. yes matt! you got it. chief dude and a ham and member of our local ham radio club. peace and thanks for all that info and for watching my video!
The city might have too much radio interference. I have a watch and clock that both work here in central NJ. I leave them in a west facing window so they sync every night.
@@rickraymo1319 Hello brother, as an ETN in the Navy I grew my love of electronics, when I called home from WESPAC I was hooked on radio, and after retirement I got my ham license. I have been a gamer since they came out and prefer PC, I kind of stalled a few years ago on UT my favorite still. Hope you had a good 4th. Bye!
I have fond memories of listening to WWV for the very first time on my home made bread board crystal shortwave receiver when I was about 14 in the 1960's. I thought it sounded like the very heartbeat of America. It is sad to hear that the heartbeat will be gone. The death of America.
Sad to hear that 2018 may be WWV and WWVB's last year in operation. NIST is proposing shutting it down. They claim it will save them $6.3 million a year that can go to more important projects. Therefore, it looks like all future time syncing will be done by GPS, which is already pretty much the standard in most industries where accurate time keeping is important (like telecommunications). Problem is that for us average consumers we have no good way of keeping clocks in sync without WWVB (outside of our cell phones and PC's of course). So, if this budget passes, get ready to toss your radio controlled wall clocks, alarm clocks and atomic wristwatches. I realize time marches on and technology progresses. I am not sentimental in that regard, but I am just miffed that there's no good alternative to WWVB for some applications right now. If I could go out and buy a GPS wall clock or wristwatch for the same price as a WWVB clock, then I wouldn't care. But there's no such clocks for the consumer market (and I've looked hard). There are companies that make GPS and NTP/Ethernet/Wifi wall clocks but they are specialized and sold to schools, hospitals, office buildings, governments, etc. They are not sold to consumers, and even if they were, they are VERY expensive.
thanks john for the great comment. it would be sad to see it go. lucky to be able to even see this in person. i am glad to have been able to shoot and share this video. thanks for watching and we will see what happens soon!
thanks for that story. i wanted to tune that rig to 20 mhz. thinking back now i wish i would have rolled the dial just to hear wwv from there. i guess they keep it slightly off freq so they dont hear it unless they want to. oh well. thanks for your story and peace to you and your dad. i miss my dad and he was also a ham. kc0zig.....r.i.p. dad. love you. he is steve vale cathcart
I sent for the NBS radio stations pamphlet in the early 1970's as a teen, I learned a LOT about WWV from it. Then, I've look at the WWV web page. Yet, this video mentioned the old tape track system for time announcements, something new to me. I think I still prefer Don Elliot's voice, the current announcer seem too soft Also, RIP Jane Barbe, the voice of WWVH, and, a lot of other things, she died in 2003. It's also nice to know the WWV 25 MHz is back on the air, a good indicator for 12 meter propagation.
thanks for the additional info! and thanks for watching. they should buy back dons voice. i think his family would accept $1 and have his voice eternally on the air. they should ask.
You aren't the only one curious. WWV/WWVB/WWVH still have a purpose; though they are SOMEWHAT (but not completely) obviated by the Internet-connected timekeepers ALSO run by NIST (tick.nist.gov and tock.nist.gov - tick is in Fort Collins; while tock is in Gaithersburg, MD - home to NIST HQ itself.)
if an antenna is making that kind of noise lol, don't even go near it because if it is making that kind of noise there has to be more then 100 thousand watts being fed through it lol
First heard this station listening to shortwave with my grandpa in the 1960s. Went back to it in the 80s and have been checking in on the broadcasts often since then. Great to see the works on a video tour. I remember the original guys voice in my head. He sounded a lot better then the new/current. Thanks for the video tour.
Hey there’s a DANGER sign. Let’s go look inside. 👍 Nice tour of the facility. I’m surprised the place has not reduced to the size of a filing cabinet like so much other radio stuff. I guess being older government equipment is the reason. Wouldn’t it be funny if the tour guide looked at his watch and said excuse me and ran to the mic to do the voice over every time. I have heard the Don Elliot story. Wouldn’t spend $300. Funny!
Like many here, WWV was my first SW signal that I tuned in when I was 8 back in 1978, so thanks for this video tour. Reading the description above, I gather that tours of WWV are rare and I can imagine why. Still, as a photographer, I would love to get some images of the Antenna Farm, so are visitors allowed? I can not seem to find an answer to this question anywhere online, any help would be appreciated.
Ha! I live here, I've driven past the place I couldn't tell you how many times and it took this video to show me around inside! Life is funny sometimes!
@@PINKBOY1006 Yes. I was interviewing for a Job at NOAA. The interviewer saw that I had a ham radio license and we started talking about HF. He said that in the past he read the weather and solar flux on WWV. I was impressed and awed as a 21 year old. So I said "WOW Let me shake your hand!"
Been a ham for many years and today i decided to search out wwv. very nice. I have a Military grade watch and it set the summer/winter from WWV Nice room full of goodies :-) BOB AF2DX
thanks for watching and tx for your comment bob. it was awesome. no other videos on youtube of inside wwv. so i thought i better video it. listen for me on HF and holler if you hear me! aaron n0war
While you are there, look up John Clarence Karcher, and W.B.Kendall. Karcher founded the UTC (Ater WWI) My Grand uncle, W.B.Kendall Jr, along with Karcher, invented Fracking in Chickasha Oklahoma, In 1925-27.
It used to say Greenwich Mean Time! I have a recordings of that before they changed to Universal Coordinated Time recorded off my grandparents 1935 Zenith console radio with the tuning eye from the early 60's through the 70's. Bored kid but fascinated!
thanks for watching RF. and your comment. i got lucky. the guy that runs the place giving the tour is a ham and a member of our local club. sub for more. i might be going back in a few months for WWV 100 Year Celebration. They will have a special event station on the air on the property! i will make another video.
My First Shortwave Excpance was WWV on 2.5...5...10... 15...and 20mhz...I was 10 years old back than. .....It is amazing the same people are on it still 😃
In general I think the tour was interesting but not enough detail. Unless I missed it I would like to know where the timecode source comes from is that the naval observatory or where exactly does the Time start. Where those atomic clocks that was displaying the time. What was their error be? What would be the lifecycle of the tubes and some of the other equipment that would break down eventually do the heat electronics and Environmental issues? Could WWV & WWVH be used for navigation
I also thought, since we have WWV down here on earth,there aut to be something for interplanetary or interstellar time that could use one if not several of the hf bands for the time signal. I bet it could be done.
Listening to WWV on 5.000 MHz right now in the UK, time 00.48 UTC. Signal S9+10 with some QSB, receiving on a Yaesu FTDX101D. CW ID RWM. Can't hear WWV on 2.5 MHz at all. 73
awesome matt! do a youtube video of it from the UK. peace again brother. are you a ham? are you on dmr? we hang out on brandmeister tg 3171 and 310869 or TGIF network 420 "the SUPER FREQ!"
@@ShutterMafiaStudios1 Hi there, yes I am a ham callsign G4ZZB, not on QRZ though. I don't use DMR so not so good on that one. I will try to do a video tomorrow evening, and see how that goes with uploading it on my channel. Peace to you again man. 73
@@ShutterMafiaStudios1 Their last plant was in Fairburn Ga. It was 2002 before they went bankrupt. I did most of the final tests on the transmitters that were built to make sure they passed FCC specs. Their was a lot of very talented people that worked there they taught me a lot.I did a little of everything there.
Thanks for this video. As a kid, WWV was the first station I ever heard on my Hallicrafters SWR my brother gave me when I was around 10. I think I have owned every device ever made that picked up the station to keep accurate time since then. I think the 2nd station I heard might have been WWV's sister station in Canada, also.
great story xmBill. thanks for watching and see the description of the video for a link to some ham radio special event happening @ WWV later this year!
Thanks for sharing this tour; I had looked for one of WWV a couple years ago and never found this for some reason. This must've been very fun to experience in person!
hi jeff. thanks. it was fun for sure. bigtime. glad you liked it. the only video on the internet from the inside. peace man. i might go back. i know the manager and he is a ham.
@@ShutterMafiaStudios1 That would be awesome! My Dad's a radio engineer (though not a ham), so seeing a place like this that blends some scientific equipment with the RF stuff he's often shown me is really cool. Would you be okay if I use a short clip (with attribution) of the sign and the towers in a video (about 8-12 seconds in total) I'm going to make about network timekeeping?
@@ShutterMafiaStudios1 Awesome! I'll have a credit over the video clip and link in the description, and the video *should* go up on Wednesday (as long as I can get the editing complete by then!).
Just to establish my credibility to say dumb stuff like that, 47 years I sent them a reception report and not only did they QSL, they put me on a mailing list for a mimeographed technical bulletin for the next several years. Probably not a good expenditure of money on a 10-year-old who didn't need to do precision time corrections.
I've been listening to WWV for fifty years and the voice has always been the same. I know fifty years ago, they didn't have computerized voices, so I'm wondering whose voice that is?
Came upon this video and it brought back a lot of memories. I was an engineer in the British merchant navy, heard this time signal many times. A good reference that was totally reliable.
I lived in Fort Collins from 1981-2001, and then moved to Wyoming but would travel back and forth to visit my parents while they still lived, so I can't tell you how many times I drove by this site. I would often drive on back roads to relieve the monotony of I-25, so a lot of trips right past this location. I long wondered why the address of this place retained the 2000 E. Country Road 58 address, which got supplanted by State Highway 1, and I think every other address along that stretch reflects CO1. And heck, I think it's closer to Wellington than Fort Collins! Nice to see some of what goes on at the site rather than just a "2000" sign plus a bunch of masts and red lights at night. I also remember all the harmonic frequencies you'd get by being in close proximity to this powerful station, in other words, I didn't need a short wave radio to hear WWV in the 80s, all one needed was to twirl the AM dial around a bit and you would find it - also badly grounded radios - normally you'd just get hum, but in Fort Collins, you might also get WWV. I can't tell you how many times I heard "National Bureau of Standards Time... Radio Station WWV" (which is what is was called back then, heck I'd like to hear that old station ID again)
Thanks for the thanks, and I should add, I must be some kind of radio nerd, because I rather LIKED stumbling across WWV when mucking about with radios as a teenager. Most people would have been like "whatev" and ignored it. Not me.... the reason I heard all of those station IDs is because I wanted to hear them and waited for them to come up on the half hours. Hah, I guess that's why I set my computer clocks to time-correct via NIST instead of Microsoft.
roach, good one. this is the only video footage on RU-vid from this place. it has been a mystery for years. i could not wait to go. i might get a chance to go back and shoot another video so please sub to see part 2! peace to you.
Amazing. As kids, we used to listen to this on shortwave Radio Shack equipment. We thought if we could find this station, we would certainly have the power to find space aliens...lol. Thanks for posting this. I always wondered what this looked like.
thank you for waching my video and your comment. you can. i talked to the space station 30 time in one month on voice to col. wheelock. i am on nasa tv. i have it on my channel and its on nasa tv youtube channel and was on tv. glad you liked the video and its RARE to get a tour. i am local and this is one of the first and might be the last tour of the place in history. peace to you and thanks again!
When I was a youngster in the 1960's I was given my great-grandfather's old floor model Zenith radio. This radio could could receive short wave bands as well as the regular AM broadcast band. My father taught me how to tune in WWV at 2.5 Mhz or 5 MHz so I could set my watch. Later in life I have been known to joke that my dream job was to become the announcer for WWV...
I've was recently offered a IBM master clock(mechanical weight driven) that apparently uses wwv for time correction. Imagine my surprise that the service is still active.
Thanks for a very interesting video. I have always been curious about how WWV might appear. I used check and set my watch by WWV/WWVH on our aircraft HF transceiver.
great to see the station. I see broadcasting on 25Mhz again. I get too much noise hear to pull it out. late at night I hear WWVH 2.5 Mhz with the female voice. western new york. great video.
thanks for watching. i appreciate your great comment. i am in loveland colorado. never heard wwvh here. always tune into wwv/vb. peace to you. de n0war
Really cool. ( I would like to have heard more of the tour guide.) Back when WMRI was WYFR, I was actually hitchhiking and went by, and “ popped in “ on them. They were great❗️. I got a personal tour of the whole place. There were towers spread out , with cattle wandering around completely oblivious to what all was above them. And the same “Spooky “ sound . They were really great to me . They fed me [ lunch], and gave me bumper stickers ( I put one on my backpack 😁). Gave me all sorts of trinkets.... wanted to give me a Bible too but I had one. They prayed with me, and drove me back to the main road. ( and one of them gave me a few dollars. The driver, gave me a $20. - and I asked for nothing). Thanks for posting this. 📻🙂
jeff. wow. that is a GREAT story!!!! i wish i could have gotten a WWV bumper sticker. sorry i did not get more of the tour. it was packed with people that day. i wish i would have gotten every word the tour guide said. its HARD to get into that place. i had an opportunity to do a tour a few years back and thought i would be working and i missed out. but was glad to get this one. if i get the chance to do it again i will shoot another video and post it here. sub to see it! peace to you and thanks for sharing your story!
ShutterMafia It was cool to see this WWV. I totally understand trying to video all of it. Back in the day, ( when I was a young teen) I had a WWV, and WWVH QSL cards.( I had cards and letters from EVERYONE/ EVERYWHERE. SW and AM). I still love listening and DXing. 📻🙂
Yep the folks at WYFR were a great crew. They were customers of mine back in the 2000s and went out there in the swamp a couple times. It was mostly just them and the cows. Closest hotel was 35 miles away. Going to lunch was a 20 mile drive. But they have those old huge transmitters and just about every kind of SW antenna.
i remember first listening to WWV around 72-73 at my buddy's home, on a 1955 German built SABA Freiburg multi band console radio..... It was built in to a hidden cabinet in the wall of their den. The man who built the home was a prominent doctor with a large bank acct, so this radio was top notch and quite the rig, with roof mounted antenna. We would spend many evenings listening in and logging the SW stations we pulled in, and WWV was always among the faves.... Fast forward to just last year, I am nearly 60 now, and my friend's parents have both passed. That same large waterfront home on the shores of the Detroit River was up for sale. I inquired about the status of the old SABA radio that had not even been powered on for several years, I offered to purchase it, the family granted me this privilege.... I removed that radio from the cabinet in that den where it had been resting since 1960. Even disconnected the antenna cable still attached to the back of the SABA, the antenna that had fallen off the roof sometime in the 1980s. Today the radio is prominently placed in my living room, in mint condition, but sadly, i cannot raise WWV anymore...I will google it to see if at this late date (Feb 2020) if the station has indeed ceased to exist. Sad to think nearly 90 + percent of the SW stations have been silenced now..... How i would love to just cruise thru the bands on those long winter nights like back when i was a wide eyed kid of 11 or 12.
I remember Don Elliott Heald's voice - man, that was a long time ago. Took a while to get used to the "new guy's voice". Thanks for this video - just excellent.
I just searched through the budget-fy2019.pdf - whitehouse_gov (Link below:) I did word searches through the document for: WWV, WWVH, WWVB, time and frequency, NIST, Ft. Collins, and did not find anything. Hawaii returned one Unemployment refrence. Either this is a false rumor or the decision to do this was reversed. Most of what I've read and seen comments about is radio controlled clocks not working but this would have been nothing compared to all the water department and natural gas remote metering and controls for various other utilities that rely on the WWVB signal and the cost to the customers that would have resulted in all these utilities having to revamp their equipment to ground based communications. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/budget-fy2019.pdf
You don't match the 50 Ohm transmitter impedance to the antenna's radiation resistance. You match it to the antenna impedance. The radiation resistance isn't a real resistance. It's simply a resistance value to use in calculations that is equivalent to the losses of the radiated signal that 'disappears' from the circuit. The FCC part 97 rules in the first couple of paragraphs state that the purpose of the Amateur Radio Service is to create a pool of technically knowledgeable radio operators for emergencies or in times of war. It's basically a sandbox created by the government for the RF curious to play in in the hopes that they will learn as much about radio as possible. Their ideal is to see hams involved with groups like TAPR all over the USA, or at least to put up and play with our own antennas, fix our own gear and build and tune some kits. They realize they can't force that on us, so they provide incentives like multiple bands, and high power transmission. They even authorize technician class hams to design, build, and operate kilowatt station with huge antenna arrays for EME communications. That should be a hint. They want hams who know RF. Otherwise, they would just have told us all to 'go buy a CB' and talk to our heart's content. BTW, I used to listen all day long to WWVB on its 180 kHz harmonic and watch it on my o'scope on the output of my 60 kHz TRF receiver. I used it as a calibrator for my LowFER gear. The first time I heard it I thought it was some drunk CW operator. But then a week or so later I had both the scope on WWVB and I was listening to 180 kHz on my LowfER receiver, and as I walked up to my workbench I saw and heard both together and broke out laughing. :)
Oh great now they’re in danger of getting shut down, I personally don’t think that will happen considering these stations are what synchronize most clocks in the world and give important marine info. Damn I hope they don’t shut down
=Dddd awesome! Thanks so much for posting this! I was just talking to a friend about whether or not tours could be done. I read that its hard due to security issues...Lucky you have the 6-degree hookups lmao XD #FELLOWNERD
thanks a bunch for your comment. it was really fun filming this. i wish i could do it again and i will if i can and do it better. lots of great comments on here. i might be able to set that up. peace to one and all and enjoy the airwaves however you can.
WWV and CHU (Two Stations That ROCK !!) and no Commercials.. (To Paraphrase: I'll be you HAM Guide on you HAM tour.. feel Free to ask any HAM Questions.).. Largest TX'r I've ever worked on was 10Kw.. (Very familiar seeing this stuff).. Thanks for posting this Video.
At the tone, 1 hour, 0 minutes central standard time, deeeeeet. This is radio station wwb fort Colin’s Colorado. Broadcasting on internationally allocated frequencies of, 2.5, 5, 10, 15, and 20 MHz, broadcasting time of day, and other relevant information, 24 hours a day. Qsl can be sent to the station address announced on the real version of this announcement. Dong! Second tones etc. lol. I guess when I’m bored I’ll listen to it too much LOL
Great tour, and 73 to WWV's Matthew Deutch! Interesting to see what they've done with the HF transmitter plant with the 'new' (surplus) Navy transmitters, which have apparently replaced most of the 90's CCA and all of the original Technical Materiel Corporation (TMC) transmitters. Time marches on: TMC and CCA have been out of business for many years. Only downside is the newer ones don't seem to sound quite as nice on the air as the old ones did.
Thank You, I am 62, but, I am not in the podcast. My grand uncles' co-worker, (J.C.Karcher), help found the station after WWI. They both invented fracking in 1927, in Chickasha, Oklahoma. I stopped by to just here the old short wave station to hear the address. Anyone can get the app and Emails from National Institute Standards and Technology, ( NIST) Brother James Kendall Moore OSB OFS OSC ✝️
Well, before they train the posterity, someone has to find the funds needed to repair/replace the Southern Antenna that was damaged from a storm generating 90 mph winds on April 7th!😢😭 Making it next to impossible for my Weather Station to receive the⚛️🕰️ synchronization signal in Gastonia, NC 1550 miles distant when it was routinely picking it since I activated it 18 months ago! Even though my two Casio timepieces still intercept the straitened signal nightly!
I heard the tour guide mention WWVL. I wish there was more information on that station available. I've read the NIS article about it, but it said nothing about what it would have sounded like if you had tuned to 20 kHz (assuming you have a receiver that can tune that frequency).
Did I spy a VTVM on the lower right of the screen, at 2:46? On a shelf. I have an old Eico unit that is just cherry and works flawlessly, after about 45 seconds of warm up. If anything, I drag it around with me at work in the winter when I need a meter and leave it plugged in and on. To warm the hands, of course. Them rubber electrical insulation/isolation gloves with the leather covers are stupid hot in the summer, and cold in the winter. Lol Edited for correct timestamp
It's unfortunate that the video didn't stay with the engineer who was giving the tour. People watching will be curious as to what is being shown but unless someone tells us we are completely in the dark.
this is pretty neat i used to listen to this station way back in the 70s on my dads old military shortwave they sent me a folder that had everything about them back then i still might have somewhere i remember climbing two pine trees in the backyard and putting up the antenna.thanks for sharing.
Been listening to 10mhz wwv on my DIY direct conversion receiver using a 3mhz high pass filter into a 24db one transistor amp, into an NE602N mixer chip, through a low pass filter, into an NE5534 and then a class B audio with two power transistors and into a 4 inch speaker
