Spent the day fighting the wind and rain… It was just brutal…
And for those who’ve ever gotten a time hack from WWVH, here it is…
And here are the three antennas (no I didn’t climb the HF mast to take this)…
Trivia question, what are those three Freqs??? 🙂
Trivia question #2, does anybody remember the Lady who’s voice was ‘featured’ on WWV/WWVH ???
Hint- probably 90% of us over the age of 30 have heard her voice ‘many’ times…
If you don’t know, the answer is HERE.
I did not realize she was a Georgia girl.
Never even though of putting a face to that voice . . . . thank you. Surely have heard her lovely voice many times.
Nice to see you still have the willingness to go the extra distance through inclimate weather! 🙂 Obviously it was a true struggle!! 🙂
Safe travels!
As a Ham radio operator I know those Frequencies, of course. The woman’s name was Jane something, it will come to me but I remember her well.
What do I win?
I was quite familiar with WWV as a Navy Cryptologic Technician. We used the time tick to synchronize certain pieces of crypto equipment. There’d usually be an R-390 receiver in the comms spaces for just that purpose.
In practical terms what we’d do is synchronize our digital watches to the time tick and use the watches to synch the crypto equipment, so as to not have to dial up WWV every day.
Always such interesting stuff.
Never got to use WWV that much on the Boomers. But since we carry our own Atomic Clocks (first Rubidium, then Cesium), there wasn’t much need.
But it was kinda neat to have the Quartermasters come into Nav. Center, get the Time on their Watches, then go move around the Boat setting all the Clocks and Chronometers.
Pace yourself. Don’t get too overworked!
I got my Ham ticket when I was in the Air Force. In those days we calibrated the frequency dial on our radios by listening to WWV time hack. I still remember that, “Bong…Bong…Bong…Beeeep. The time is…”
Andy- Yep, she NEVER sounded like one!!!
eia- Yep, had to ‘work’ at it… 😀
Danny- Nada…LOL But thanks for commenting! And the freqs were 5, 10, 15 KHz
Bob- Good point, but the airplanes only had the wind up 8 day clocks…
Agirl- Thanks!
Les- Yeah, y’all cheated… 🙂
WSF- Tryin… 😀
Crucis- Oh yeah, and the last 7.5 sec was a MALE voice…
For a good time, go here: http://www.lownoiserecords.com/wwv_the_tick.html
drjim- That is hilarious!
Yeesh… I was corrected in an email, they also added 2.5 and 20 KHz so FIVE total channels of WWVH…