Over here in Australia there are no time services to see/hear the leap second. WWV is available but only during the night. The leap second will be here about 10AM so I will not be able to hear WWV. If WWV does something notable I would love it if some one could make a sound clip of it.
Have a precise, accurate, happy and very prosperous New Year, Neville Michie On 31/12/2008, at 6:00 PM, Magnus Danielson wrote: > Hi! > > I don't have the equipment for it, but I am sure that a ham near would > be able to pull this off. Here the deal: > > "After seventy years of broadcasting Canada's official time, NRC's > shortwave station CHU will move the transmission frequency for the > 7335 > KHz transmitter to 7850 KHz. The change will occur on 01 January > 2009 at > 00:00 UTC." > > Now, as this happends at the same time as the leap second, it would be > kind of cool recording both the old and new CHU transmissions on left > and right channel of a stereo-pair. That should capture leap-second > and > frequency switchover. > > Just a thought for the hams out there in North America. > > Cheers, > Magnus > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ > time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.