1.020 MHz Time Signal?
 

For the last few nights on 1020 KHz where I normally hear KDKA out of
Pittsbugh I've been hearing a non english voice (French?) and the
"tick-tock" of what sounds like a time signal.

During this time of solar storms what is that I'm hearing?

George - Daytona Beach, FL
http://www.MilAirComms.com

GeorgeF wrote:

For the last few nights on 1020 KHz where I normally hear KDKA out of
Pittsbugh I've been hearing a non english voice (French?) and the
"tick-tock" of what sounds like a time signal.

During this time of solar storms what is that I'm hearing?

George - Daytona Beach, FL
http://www.MilAirComms.com


I'm almost certain you are hearing a "harmonic" of the Canadian time
station, CHU. I don't recall it's exact frequency off the top of my
head, but it's roughly close to 3 times 1020. Odd stuff happens in
radio, sometimes, most especially in shortwave radio.

Tony

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:58:04 -0500, Tony Meloche
wrote:



GeorgeF wrote:

For the last few nights on 1020 KHz where I normally hear KDKA out of
Pittsbugh I've been hearing a non english voice (French?) and the
"tick-tock" of what sounds like a time signal.

During this time of solar storms what is that I'm hearing?

George - Daytona Beach, FL
http://www.MilAirComms.com


I'm almost certain you are hearing a "harmonic" of the Canadian time
station, CHU. I don't recall it's exact frequency off the top of my
head, but it's roughly close to 3 times 1020. Odd stuff happens in
radio, sometimes, most especially in shortwave radio.

Tony

It's 3330.0

"GeorgeF" wrote in message
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For the last few nights on 1020 KHz where I normally hear KDKA out of
Pittsbugh I've been hearing a non english voice (French?) and the
"tick-tock" of what sounds like a time signal.

During this time of solar storms what is that I'm hearing?

Some of the latin stations use a clock ticking effect. Perhaps the french
(Quebec) station is as well, or you're hearing them both together.

1.020 MHz Time Signal? : This is a Cuban time station on MW I believe...
Cuba is the only nation using MW for time signal relay purposes.
I believe that the rest of the radio programming is newsradio, like ABC
Newsradio.

For the last few nights on 1020 KHz where I normally hear KDKA out of
Pittsbugh I've been hearing a non english voice (French?) and the
"tick-tock" of what sounds like a time signal.

In article ,
Tony Meloche wrote:

GeorgeF wrote:

For the last few nights on 1020 KHz where I normally hear KDKA out of
Pittsbugh I've been hearing a non english voice (French?) and the
"tick-tock" of what sounds like a time signal.

During this time of solar storms what is that I'm hearing?

George - Daytona Beach, FL
http://www.MilAirComms.com


I'm almost certain you are hearing a "harmonic" of the Canadian time
station, CHU. I don't recall it's exact frequency off the top of my
head, but it's roughly close to 3 times 1020. Odd stuff happens in
radio, sometimes, most especially in shortwave radio.

CHU
3,330
7,335
14,670

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

Tony Meloche wrote:

GeorgeF wrote:

For the last few nights on 1020 KHz where I normally hear KDKA out of
Pittsbugh I've been hearing a non english voice (French?) and the
"tick-tock" of what sounds like a time signal.

During this time of solar storms what is that I'm hearing?

George - Daytona Beach, FL
http://www.MilAirComms.com

I'm almost certain you are hearing a "harmonic" of the Canadian time
station, CHU. I don't recall it's exact frequency off the top of my
head, but it's roughly close to 3 times 1020. Odd stuff happens in
radio, sometimes, most especially in shortwave radio.

3 times 1020 = 3060.

CHU is on 3330.

At any rate, it would not be a harmonic, but rather a subharmonic.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

dxAce wrote:

Tony Meloche wrote:

GeorgeF wrote:

For the last few nights on 1020 KHz where I normally hear KDKA out of
Pittsbugh I've been hearing a non english voice (French?) and the
"tick-tock" of what sounds like a time signal.

During this time of solar storms what is that I'm hearing?

George - Daytona Beach, FL
http://www.MilAirComms.com

I'm almost certain you are hearing a "harmonic" of the Canadian time
station, CHU. I don't recall it's exact frequency off the top of my
head, but it's roughly close to 3 times 1020. Odd stuff happens in
radio, sometimes, most especially in shortwave radio.

3 times 1020 = 3060.

CHU is on 3330.

At any rate, it would not be a harmonic, but rather a subharmonic.

After doing a bit of quick research it might have been Radio Reloj out of Cuba.
They broadcast the time ticks.

See:

http://www.worldofradio.com/dxld3192.txt

And also other references.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

"HireMe.geek.nz" wrote:

1.020 MHz Time Signal? : This is a Cuban time station on MW I believe...
Cuba is the only nation using MW for time signal relay purposes.
I believe that the rest of the radio programming is newsradio, like ABC
Newsradio.

Yes, Radio Reloj or Radio Clock. The time signal ticks are part of their
programming, also news, etc. Sometimes (if not all) they send a 'RR' in code
every now and then.

This may be part of a jamming effort in this case.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

For the last few nights on 1020 KHz where I normally hear KDKA out of
Pittsbugh I've been hearing a non english voice (French?) and the
"tick-tock" of what sounds like a time signal.

I'm almost certain you are hearing a "harmonic" of the Canadian time
station, CHU. I don't recall it's exact frequency off the top of my
head, but it's roughly close to 3 times 1020. Odd stuff happens in
radio, sometimes, most especially in shortwave radio.

It's 3330.0

Yes, CHU is on 3330, but no, 1020 is not a harmonic of 3330, or any
frequency greater than 510 kHz.

What you hear on 1020 is Radio Reloj (spanish for "Clock Radio") out of
Cuba.
They broadcast news items with the ticking in the background and a time
announcement at the top of each minute, as well as a morse code "RR".



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Mike Westfall, N6KUY, WDX6O
Los Alamos, NM (DM65uv)
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