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Old February 22nd 08, 01:18 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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msg wrote:
cadillac_eldorado wrote:

On Feb 20, 8:36 am, msg wrote:

Frank Dresser wrote:

Was your chatter at all intelligible?

Michael



Barely, I could make out a few words here and there but nothing
substantial. I assumed it wasn't an official message because I could
hear the time announcer just fine.


Even with good reception, often the voice reports on WWV (geomagnetic,
weather, etc.) are unintelligible, as if the speaker has no on-air
experience. It was so bad last year that I had intended to complain
to NIST but I never did.

Michael


That's wack. The weather (space and at sea) announcements are done over
a restricted bandwidth voice channel and sound every bit as
unintelligible as a landline phone call using a telephone. In other
words, they sound OK.