WWVB Antenna Repaired

[Michael M]

Due to high winds, the WWVB south antenna was damaged and then disabled back in April, and has been operating at reduced power with the north antenna only.

As of yesterday, the repairs were completed and is now operating at full strength.

WWVB Is the radio transmitter that radio clocks, incorrectly called atomic clocks, receive to set their date and time. The NIST signals can also be used as a reference frequency. Not the resolution of a GPSDO, but sufficient to calibrate my SDRplay with WWV. I have also successfully used Canada's CHU. ATSC pilot frequencies can also be used, but with less accuracy.

For more information - https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequ ... ation-wwvb

For near realtime propagation and signal strength (The Eastern receiver reporting this data is in Maryland, so YMMV)- https://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/wwvbmonitor_e.cgi