Re: [IRCA] 1610 Time Pips

["Steve" <VE7SL@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks Bruce, Steve...the mystery deepens but at least we know what it's 
not.

Steve / 73



> Steve
>
> I checked the Seattle NOAA weather radio tonight.  At :20 and :40 it had a 
> full blown ID with call, location, frequency, and current time, all in 
> low-res synthesized voice.  No time pips, but another site could be doing 
> things slightly differently.  I also heard the same ID at :49, so it might 
> be something they do every 10 minutes.
>
> Bruce
>
> On 11/20/2014 17:40, Steve wrote:
> > Thanks for the hints Gary...perhaps it is one of the NOAA relays...maybe 
> > someone who hears one of them well enough will tell us if they have time 
> > pips. They certainly jumped out of the mess here.
> >
> > Steve / 73
> >
> >
> > > The 1610 kHz frequency is a real jumble here in western Washington at 
> > > night, but there are a couple of low-powered NOAA weather relay stations 
> > > in Aberdeen, WA and in NE Oregon that might match your description. Here 
> > > in Puyallup (about 30 miles south of Seattle) one of these weather relay 
> > > stations is usually in the 1610 mix at night, along with the Yakima 
> > > WSDOT TIS station or one of the other low powered WSDOT relays (and 
> > > rarely, the 1610-Carribean Beacon station from Anguilla, with sermons 
> > > from the late Gene Scott or his daughter).
> > >
> > > 73, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > >
> > > From: "STEVE MCDONALD" <ve7sl@xxxxxxx>
> > > To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" 
> > > <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2014 8:22:30 AM
> > > Subject: [IRCA] 1610 Time Pips
> > >
> > > Last evening while working at the bench, I had 1610kHz running in the 
> > > background...just after local sunset. At both 20 mins and 40 mins after 
> > > the hour, there were 5 very easily-heard time pip second markers, but no 
> > > copy on the station itself....looping E-W at the time....any ideas of 
> > > which station this would be?
> > >
> > > Steve
> > >
> > > Mayne Island, BC
>
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