Re: [HCDX] US time stations jammed?

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

Accurate time is one thing; accurate `standard` frequencies are another, not necessarily combined. There are several time stations operating way outside the standard frequency bands, notably CHU. Glenn Hauser

--- On Sat, 8/27/11, Paul <format4nz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Paul <format4nz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [HCDX] US time stations jammed?
> To: "Hard-Core-DX" <Hard-Core-DX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Saturday, August 27, 2011, 6:30 PM

> If all the stations used their own
> frequencies, there would be little point in having
> internationally allocated standard time frequencies.
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn Hauser" <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <hard-core-dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
> "Karel Honzík" <karel-honzik@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <dxld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 2:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [HCDX] US time stations jammed?
> 
> 
> I was exaggerating somewhat. However, the fact remains that
> Russia thought it better to use 4996, 9996, 14996, if not to
> be `kind`, at least to avoid interference to their own
> advantage, and China keeps to the even frequencies. I
> believe the STFT `bands` are allocated 10 or 20 kHz wide, so
> more stations could be spread out a bit.
> 
> Note that in WRTH listings, Spain also offsets EBC to 4998
> and 15006, altho on a very limited schedule of 1030-1055 and
> 1000-1025 M-F respectively. Does anyone really hear them
> active? Mode is not given, CW?
> 
> Glenn
> 
> --- On Sat, 8/27/11, Karel Honzík <karel-honzik@xxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Karel Honzík <karel-honzik@xxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [HCDX] US time stations jammed?
> > To: hard-core-dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Saturday, August 27, 2011, 2:58 AM
> 
> > > ** CHINA. 10000, Aug 26 at 1257,
> > beeps of higher pitch mixing with WWV/WWVH. 1259 began
> Morse
> > IDs on MCW over and over as BPM, i.e. China`s WWV at
> Lintong
> > (Mt. Li), Shaanxi. Too bad on pp 668-669, WRTH 2011
> does not
> > show details such as ID times, in this case during
> minutes
> > :29 and :59. Even in the standard-frequency arena,
> the
> > ChiCom brazenly QRM US broadcasts, while the Russians
> are
> > kind enough to offset their timesignals -4 kHz (Glenn
> > Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
> > 
> > 
> > Is it really so that the US time stations have a
> monopoly
> > over internationally allocated time signal and
> frequency
> > standard frequencies and all other time stations
> (from
> > China, Brazil, Argentina, Korea...) in fact "brazenly"
> jamm
> > their operation? I think I read this for the first
> time in
> > my life... but maybe I have missed something...
> > Clarification appreciated, thanks.
> > 
> > Karel Honzik, CZE
> 

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