You know, what would help is to have an audio hard-copy of the WWVB
signal (a tone, maybe?) so I can simply write the code easily, THEN
fix the module and antenna issues.
I'd pay a reasonable fee for that...

--Bob

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Martin McCormick
<martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote:
> "Alan B. Pearce" writes:
>> Depending on conditions, you could be marginal in between the ground wave
>> limit, and sky wave, you could be getting fading due to both interfering
>> with each other.
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0I live about =A0700 or 800 miles Southeast of the
> transmitter so true groundwave propagation is not likely but
> that wave guide effect mentioned between the ionosphere and
> ground might vary at times. Interestingly enough, one of the
> times I noticed the weaker signals was one evening in mid
> November last Fall about 3 or 4 hours after local Sundown which
> normally is very good receiving conditions. At the same time, we
> were having a faint Sporadic E opening which favored the
> Northern United States.
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Several nights later, we had another similar Sporadic E
> event and WWVB's signal was normal. What can I say?
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0I am hoping we get more Solar activity eventually to see
> how much it effects VLF signals.
>
> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ =A0Stillwater, OK
> Systems Engineer
> OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group
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