[time-nuts] WWV/WWVH audio simulator?

[Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX]

Replicating the WWV/WWVB audio is impractical given the various
weather and other timely messages.

One could use the Linux "festival" voice syntheses package, which gives 
a choice of voices.

On 01/05/2014 07:50 AM, Jayson Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Wow, those recordings are very interesting! Late in that series, 
> there's one which sounds like a direct feed of WWVH for a few minutes. 
> This really points out what all is lost by the time the signal gets to 
> air. The phone services aren't much better, since everything above 
> 4KHZ is lost, and at least the WWV phone number (+1 303-499-7111) has 
> some sort of highpass filter on it or something so you don't get the 
> full fidelity of the broadcast, in particular, you don't hear much of 
> the 100HZ timecode.
> Jayson
>
> On 1/5/2014 2:05 AM, Peter Monta wrote:
>> Hi Jayson,
>>
>> You may already be aware of it, but there's a set of historical 
>> recordings
>> of WWV and WWVH, covering 1955 to 2005:
>>
>> http://www.myke.me/atthetone/
>>
>> As for the simulation, I'm sure it would be easy to do the tones and
>> clicks, but the voice announcements would need a considerable amount of
>> cut-and-paste from high-quality recordings.  One possibility is to find
>> someone in Boulder, send that person a platform consisting of a 
>> shortwave
>> receiver and a recorder with Internet connectivity (e.g. Raspberry Pi 
>> plus
>> a cellphone stick), set the device on a rooftop, have it acquire a 
>> few days
>> of audio, then upload the audio back to you.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Peter
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