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Re: Radio Clock or Internet GMT - which should I believe?
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2012 Mar 3, 16:32 -0800
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2012 Mar 3, 16:32 -0800
WWV, as Frank pointed out, is the US's time service and broadcasts on 2.5, 5, 10, and 15 MHz (exact frequencies). CHU is the Canadian time service and broadcasts on 3.33 and 7.85 MHz. Since WWV broadcasts from Colorado, when I lived on the east coast of the US I found CHU to have a stronger signal, more easily captured with a cheap SW radio.
From: "zvidoron@btinternet.com" <zvidoron@btinternet.com>
To: "NavList@fer3.com" <NavList@fer3.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 3, 2012 12:49 PM
Subject: [NavList] Re: Radio Clock or Internet GMT - which should I believe?
Hello Lu and thanks for your reply and for the link to time.govI am in the UK and have been using http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/ which Inow realise is probably not an official website. I do not know if we have aBritish equivalent to time.gov and will search later.The radio clock is brand new - I loaded it with batteries yesterday and leftit for an hour and when I came back it adjusted itself so was updated withinthe previous hour.I still think that Wi Fi adds variability - I will try the same on my PCwhich connects to the router with a cable.I am not familiar with WWV or CHU = are they radio broadcasts? I have a goodradio that could receive short, long and all other waves. Do you know thefrequency for that?
