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Old June 25th 16, 04:00 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
Joe from Kokomo[_2_] Joe from Kokomo[_2_] is offline
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Default Disappearance of Short Wave Time Signals at 5, 10, 15, 20kHz


analogdial wrote: "Have you tried tuning in CHU? "


On 6/24/2016 3:41 PM, wrote:

Oh yeah, 33.3mHz.


Oooops, decimal point in the wrong place, should be 3.33 MHz

I'm concerned about latency issues
and use them only as a backup.


Huh? NO "latency" (not quite sure what you mean by that). Just the RF
propagation delay (at the speed of light) from their transmitter to your
location. No reason to use them as a "backup", they are every bit the
equal to WWV.

I don't know if they are
just a repeater for the American time sources.


Again, NO. They are their own man, so to speak. They use their own
atomic clock, radio transmitters, etc. A complete, stand-alone Canadian
equivalent of WWV and just as accurate as WWV. They are NOT WWV repeaters.

See:

http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/servic...hort_wave.html

for a complete description of Canada's time service.