[time-nuts] WWVB anomoly yesterday?
John R. Ackermann N8UR
jra at febo.com
Tue Oct 26 10:23:07 EDT 2004
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <417E552B.3030509 at febo.com>, "John R. Ackermann N8UR" writes:
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>>I'm about 1100 miles out, and I do get destructive interference
>>sometimes for a few minutes around sunrise. But this lasted for over 12
>>hours and the "lock" indicators were still on when it was happening.
>>I've never seen anything like this before.
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> That could easily be the skywave. I've seen the skywave on Loran-C
> be 3-4 times stronger than the groundwave signal at those distances.
>
> Yes, 20msec is a long time, around 6000km. Any chance you're
> picking Hawaii instead ?
No, there's no Hawaii version of WWVB -- WWVH is only on the HF frequencies.
I'm suspecting either a local disturbance or an outage at WWVB.
John
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