I don't have a lock on WWVB on my normally-very-active big wall clock,
either. But, my little Oregon Scientific shows we had a full scale
signal in Charleston, SC in the last 6 hours (It checks time 6 times a
day).

You can get to the NIST radio people at their email address:
http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/index.html
and read all about these services from NIST. The WWVB antenna
pictures are worth the trip...(c;

According to their webpage, this is the outage report:

http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq...wvboutages.htm

During normal operation, the 60 kHz signal from WWVB is transmitted 24
hours per day, 7 days a week. The table includes all periods since
January 1, 2004 when the signal was turned off or intermittent for
more than 5 minutes.

Date
MJD
Began (UTC)
Ended (UTC)

03-06-2004
53070
1346
1500

01-02-2004
53006
1018
1113

01-01-2004
53005
1232
1328
http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/index.html



On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 03:06:23 GMT, "DougSlug"
wrote:

About a week ago two Casio atomic watches and one Oregon Scientific atomic
clock stopped syncing up at night. They were being kept in the exact same
location as before, and they synced up reliably every (or almost every)
night for a couple years. I can't figure out why this is happening. Have
there been any changes in the WWVB transmitter and/or propagation conditions
recently? I am located in central NJ, which can be a bit unreliable, but
usually once I find a good spot in the house, it stays reliable...until now!

- Doug




Larry W4CSC
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