[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:
> 
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> 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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