[time-nuts] WWVB and solar flare
Brent Gordon
time-nuts at adobe-labs.com
Thu Mar 8 17:17:08 UTC 2012
There are three things going on with WWVB right now
1. They are testing a new data format:
http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/wwvb.cfm
2. They had an outage for about an hour earlier today:
http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/wwvb-station-outages.cfm
3. There are reception failures at monitoring stations in Wisconsin and
California (but Maryland is fine):
http://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/wwvbmonitor_e.cgi
Brent
On 3/8/2012 9:46 AM, Jim Hickstein wrote:
> My Spectracom 8170 WWVB receiver hasn't locked up since yesterday
> sometime. It was a bit flakey before, but at least one other WWVB
> clock in the house is also struggling (the others don't give a clear
> indication), so I'm thinking of blaming the solar flare. Does this
> affect LF especially?
>
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