[time-nuts] MSF Scheduled Maintenance Periods

Peter Torry peter.torry at talktalk.net
Mon Feb 9 15:27:13 EST 2015


Folkert,

As far as I know the transmitted signal has not changed and is its 
normal strength with me.  Have you thought that you may be experiencing 
some form of interference to the signal?  If you can monitor the signal 
on a receiver, maybe on a long wave broadcast receiver, you may find 
that there are many loud noises heard from wall mounted power units, 
computer supplies etc.  In particular the use of computer networking 
equipment that uses the household electricity supply cables, such as 
homeplug, can be very destructive.  Can you check if you have connected 
some new equipment such as a laptop, telephone charger etc and as a test 
disconnect them all and see if the receiver then works OK.

Best of luck in finding the problem

Peter


On 09/02/2015 12:12, folkert wrote:
>> MSF Scheduled Maintenance Periods
>>
>> The MSF 60 kHz standard-frequency and time signal, broadcast by Babcock on
>> behalf of NPL, is occasionally taken off-air to allow maintenance work on
>> the masts and antennas at Anthorn Radio Station to be carried out in safety.
>> This means that your radio-controlled clock will not be picking up the MSF
>> signal, so may not be working correctly.
> Could it be that they changed something with their setup?
> A couple of years back I could receive MSF fine (Gouda, the
> Netherlands) but this year (reconnected the radio in January) no bit
> comes in at all. The led on the radio also flickers dramatically, not
> once per second.
>
>
> Folkert van Heusden
>



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