Re: [time-nuts] WWVB and solar flare

2012-03-08 Thread Jim Hickstein
On 2012/03/08 11:17, Brent Gordon wrote: There are three things going on with WWVB right now 1. They are testing a new data format: http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/wwvb.cfm 2. They had an outage for about an hour earlier today: http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/wwvb-station-outages.cfm 3

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB and solar flare

2012-03-08 Thread J. Forster
In Boston, WWVB is often very noisy. When I compared the received signal to a local standard, some days it'd be rock solid. Other days it's a dog's breakfast. In fact, it would change dramatically around a weather front passage too. I'd think so. -John = > My Spectracom 8170 W

Re: [time-nuts] WWVB and solar flare

2012-03-08 Thread Brent Gordon
There are three things going on with WWVB right now 1. They are testing a new data format: http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/wwvb.cfm 2. They had an outage for about an hour earlier today: http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/wwvb-station-outages.cfm 3. There are reception failures at m

[time-nuts] WWVB and solar flare

2012-03-08 Thread Jim Hickstein
My Spectracom 8170 WWVB receiver hasn't locked up since yesterday sometime. It was a bit flakey before, but at least one other WWVB clock in the house is also struggling (the others don't give a clear indication), so I'm thinking of blaming the solar flare. Does this affect LF especially? __