[time-nuts] Cutler NAA on 24.0kHz....

Kenneth G. Gordon kgordon2006 at frontier.com
Sun Aug 17 14:23:18 EDT 2014


On 17 Aug 2014 at 7:52, Burt I. Weiner wrote:

> Gang,
> 
> Just for fun I just tried to see if I could hear the signal on 24 kHz 
> using my GPS referenced HP-3586B and a HP-3336A also GPS locked to 
> compare the I.F. frequency using a 1:1 Lissajou pattern.  It's 7:30 
> AM here in Los Angeles.  I heard a signal but I doubt that it was 
> NAA.

Isn't NAA on 24.6 Khz? I am not certain of the frequency.

>  What time of the day would be best, probably when the entire 
> path is dark?

In my experience, here in North Idaho, and when I was in Missoula, MT, 
athough the signal level rose and fell with diurnal variations in the amount or 
lack of sunlight, it was ALWAYS there...at least as long as the transmitter 
was in operation.

>  My antenna is a dipole about 30-feet on a side, which 
> is really all I've got up at the moment.  It's orientation favors 
> that part of the country.  I hear WWVB at 60 kHz almost all the time 
> with that antenna.  WWVB is quite recognizable because of the phase 
> shift signature as seen on my X-Y display.

If you are hearing WWVB, you most CERTAINLY will hear NAA...if they are 
on the air.

Into my location here, NAA is at least three times as strong as WWVB.

Ken W7EKB


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