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Adding official NRC site for CHU
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Jim MacKenzie VE5EV
Jim MacKenzie VE5EV
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Don't forget about CHU, (and here is the official site) which is the Canadian equivalent to WWV. It's at lower power and it's not as well-located geographically (it's located near Ottawa), but it's receivable in most of the eastern US and increasingly less well as you head west. Here in VE5-land (Saskatchewan) I certainly receive it sometimes, but I also don't have an ideal HF antenna setup either.

It transmits at 3 kW at 3.33 and 14.67 MHz as well as with 10 kW of power at 7.85 MHz.

One nice feature is that it frequently transmits time data in Bell 103 modem format, which is fairly easy to decode. It of course also has spoken word time.

Don't forget about CHU, which is the Canadian equivalent to WWV. It's at lower power and it's not as well-located geographically (it's located near Ottawa), but it's receivable in most of the eastern US and increasingly less well as you head west. Here in VE5-land (Saskatchewan) I certainly receive it sometimes, but I also don't have an ideal HF antenna setup either.

It transmits at 3 kW at 3.33 and 14.67 MHz as well as with 10 kW of power at 7.85 MHz.

One nice feature is that it frequently transmits time data in Bell 103 modem format, which is fairly easy to decode. It of course also has spoken word time.

Don't forget about CHU (and here is the official site) which is the Canadian equivalent to WWV. It's at lower power and it's not as well-located geographically (it's located near Ottawa), but it's receivable in most of the eastern US and increasingly less well as you head west. Here in VE5-land (Saskatchewan) I certainly receive it sometimes, but I also don't have an ideal HF antenna setup either.

It transmits at 3 kW at 3.33 and 14.67 MHz as well as with 10 kW of power at 7.85 MHz.

One nice feature is that it frequently transmits time data in Bell 103 modem format, which is fairly easy to decode. It of course also has spoken word time.

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Jim MacKenzie VE5EV
Jim MacKenzie VE5EV
  • 661
  • 6
  • 25

Don't forget about CHU, which is the Canadian equivalent to WWV. It's at lower power and it's not as well-located geographically (it's located near Ottawa), but it's receivable in most of the eastern US and increasingly less well as you head west. Here in VE5-land (Saskatchewan) I certainly receive it sometimes, but I also don't have an ideal HF antenna setup either.

It transmits at 3 kW at 3.33 and 14.67 MHz as well as with 10 kW of power at 7.85 MHz.

One nice feature is that it frequently transmits time data in Bell 103 modem format, which is fairly easy to decode. It of course also has spoken word time.