analogdial wrote:
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"Have you used different radios? Alot radios use simple RF stages which
can be damaged by static discharge. The input stage gets knocked out
but the radio still has enough gain to get some reception.

This sort of damage can go unnoitced because it doesn't affect the
internal ferrite antenna and the AM BC band still works fine.

As others have noted, the noise floor is now MUCH higher than it used to
be. "

At least I know SOMETHING in the SW environment
changed - the noise floor, and for whatever reason,
probably budgetary, they reuduced transmission power
on some of those stations.

wrote:
be. "

At least I know SOMETHING in the SW environment
changed - the noise floor, and for whatever reason,
probably budgetary, they reuduced transmission power
on some of those stations.

Don't know anything about a power change at WWV in the last couple of
decades. I have a 94 WRTH handy and it shows power at 10kW on 5,
10, and 15 MHz or 2.5kW on 2.5 and 20 MHz, same as now.

I've been listenening in the same area for over 40 years, even have the
same radios, and reception is sometimes uncertain but nothing I think
can't be explained by the usual propagation changes and the increased
amount of radio noise.

In article ,
says...

BDK wrote:

In article ,
says...
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"Fired my POS $14 portable, and it was blasting in at 5 and 10 MHZ, as
usual at night. In the daytime, I can hear it at 15 and 20 almost all
the time, and often at 10MHZ too. I'm not in a quiet RF zone, so I have
no idea what you're babbling about. . "

Guess it just depends on where each of us lives.

I've lived in CT all my life, and your situation
describes my time signal reception up until about
twenty years ago. Since then, the noise went up
and the time signals faded away. Not for nothing,
I do get them occasionally - 2-3x per week on my
Grundig Buzz Aldrin Edition 400.

That's too bad. I just wish I could get rid of all the moneysucking
preachers..

--
BDK: Head Government Shill, Psychotronic World Dominator. Master of
Remote Viewing. Level 6 expert in kOOkStudies.
Former FEMA camp activities director. Head Strategic Writer. Former
Black Helicopter color consultant.

BDK wrote: "That's too bad. I just wish I could get rid of all
the moneysucking preachers"

???

Off topic!

BDK wrote:



That's too bad. I just wish I could get rid of all the moneysucking
preachers..


It'll take more than a mere wish. Even death can't keep Doc Scott from
berating his listeners for not sending in enough money.

In article ,
says...

BDK wrote: "That's too bad. I just wish I could get rid of all
the moneysucking preachers"

???

Off topic!

So?

I would rather listen to WWV/WWVH/CHU than listen to those scumbag
preachers.

--
BDK: Head Government Shill, Psychotronic World Dominator. Master of
Remote Viewing. Level 6 expert in kOOkStudies.
Former FEMA camp activities director. Head Strategic Writer. Former
Black Helicopter color consultant.

BDK wrote:

In article ,
says...
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"So?

I would rather listen to WWV/WWVH/CHU than listen to those scumbag
preachers. "
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What do evangelists have to do with my problems
picking up WWV/H/B time syncs??


puhleeez...

analogdial wrote: "can be damaged by static discharge. The input stage gets knocked out
but the radio still has enough gain to get some reception. "


Wouldn't it take EMP or outright dropping the
radio on the floor to cause that sort of damage?
Or just years of gentle, normal usage?

thekma @gmail.com wrote in message
...
Disappearance of Short Wave Time Signals at 5, 10, 15, 20kHz


Thirty years ago, that ticking atomic clock could be picked
up on any shortwave receiver, whether one paid $40 or
$400 for it, or even on the boom-boxes of that day, of
which the majority featured at least SW1 & SW2. Starting
in the 1990s, it became increasingly more difficult to tune
them in, even with a dedicated shortwave radio. They'd
come in on only certain of those frequencies, or only at
certain times of day.

Now, they are all but inaudible except for once in a while,
every other day, on one frequency or another. All I hear at
those frequencies is loud static or noise.

What's going on??

What's going on is, you're a trolling dumb ****.

This was all explained to you when you trolled a different group with
this same nonsense.

You showed that you don't even know what station you're trying to
listen to, let alone what frequency it's on. You've confirmed that
again, here. The simplest explanation is that you just don't know how
to find the station on your radio. Too stupid! This was explained to
you on the other newsgroup, but it probably could not penetrate your
granite skullbone.

You cited the Wikipedia article, too. But that's about a different
station, which broadcasts on 60 Hz. This was explained to you, too.
And the article does not say that the station reduced it's power about
a decade ago. You'd know that if you could apply a bit of reading
comprehension, but that's obviously not possible. And, of course, this
was spelled out in the other group. None of this ever gets through to
you, does it?

As for the ridiculous claim that most boomboxes and radios from thirty
years ago received SW, well, it's no surprise that you're an utter
dumb**** on that subject too. So now what? Find yet another newsgroup,
for you to pinch off more turds of trolldom?

analogdial wrote: "can be damaged by static discharge. The input stage gets knocked out
but the radio still has enough gain to get some reception. "

On 6/21/2016 6:56 AM, wrote:

Wouldn't it take EMP or outright dropping the
radio on the floor to cause that sort of damage?
Or just years of gentle, normal usage?


This type of damage occurs on a fairly regular basis -- without anything
as drastic as an EMP. Just walking across a carpet on a dry winter's day
in a home with a low humidity level can create enough static electricity
to damage some radios...no matter how gentle you are. ;-)