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Posted by Bruce WA1HGJ on February 07, 2026 at 23:25:56.
In Reply to: Re: JJY Late in the season posted by Marcy on February 07, 2026 at 22:42:14.
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Hi Marcy, the 60 kHz "dasher" signal you hear is almost certainly the time station WWVB in Ft. Collins, CO, operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, division of US Department of Commerce; formerly known as National Bureau of Standards, NBS). It provides the signal for the so-called "atomic clocks" that were all the rage a couple decades ago before everyone plugged into the internet and cellular technology. I site visited the WWVB antenna farm in June, 2024, and have a piece on that visit in the Jul-Aug 2024 LOWDOWN, if you want to see what the antennas look like. As we say here near Boston, they are "wicked impressive." hi hi 73, Bruce WA1HGJ P.S. if your 77.2 signal is actually on 77.5, it's the German time station DCF77. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCF77
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