Too bad that WOWO was forced to cut back their nighttime power from 50,000 watts to 9,800 watts. When they operated with 50,000 watts at night, I could regularly listen to them in the Tampa Bay area.
Oh yeah, we used to listen to WOWO -- remember taking one of my sons to visit Purdue in a blizzard and listening to it.
When making my first ham receiver, I used to listen WWV with it tones and ticks. Is it still alive (5,000,000, 10,000,000 and 15,000,000 hz)?
WWV
NIST Radio Station WWV
The station radiates 10,000 W on 5, 10, and 15 MHz; and 2500 W on 2.5 and 20 MHz..
The 30 and 35 MHz broadcasts were discontinued in January 1953 and the 25 MHz broadcast was stopped in 1977. With the exception of an almost 2-year interruption (1977-78), the 20 MHz broadcasts have continued to this day.
NIST Radio Station WWV
The station radiates 10,000 W on 5, 10, and 15 MHz; and 2500 W on 2.5 and 20 MHz..
The 30 and 35 MHz broadcasts were discontinued in January 1953 and the 25 MHz broadcast was stopped in 1977. With the exception of an almost 2-year interruption (1977-78), the 20 MHz broadcasts have continued to this day.
I remember setting my watch (Zodiac Seawolf) listening to WWV in the early 70s. The watch was my graduation present when I finished High School.
I used it to test the stability of my first ham radio converter, a single 6U8 attached to a RCA 3 band receiver (PP 6V6 at the output) and after it he beat oscillator for SSB and RTTY, very useful then.
Some years after it I made my own 80-40-20 mts band receiver consisting of:
6BZ6 first RF,
6BE6 converter,
2 * 6AU6 FI (Two stages)
6AV6 detector, AGC and pre-amp,
6AL5 noise limiter,
6AQ5 audio out´
80 rectifier,
Electrodynamic 6" speaker (!500 ohms field coil)
6C4 beat oscillator,
The RF coils winded in PVC tubes of 25mm after glued to 8 pin tube sockets.
Tesla 32+32 microfarad 500V with the bakelite thread.
FI trafos was the well known "KTran", one of the bests of that era.
Some years after it I made my own 80-40-20 mts band receiver consisting of:
6BZ6 first RF,
6BE6 converter,
2 * 6AU6 FI (Two stages)
6AV6 detector, AGC and pre-amp,
6AL5 noise limiter,
6AQ5 audio out´
80 rectifier,
Electrodynamic 6" speaker (!500 ohms field coil)
6C4 beat oscillator,
The RF coils winded in PVC tubes of 25mm after glued to 8 pin tube sockets.
Tesla 32+32 microfarad 500V with the bakelite thread.
FI trafos was the well known "KTran", one of the bests of that era.
I'm listening to Bloomberg raidio right now live streaming on the internet but the originating program is broadcast on 1130 AM out of New York City.
I probably still have around somewhere the simple AM radios I built as a kid as my first electronic projects. I used to even do the DX-ing mentioned making note of the farthest station I could pick up over night running to find a map to see where the city is located. My kids are not interested in anything like that, just xbox and sponge bob. How things have changed!
I probably still have around somewhere the simple AM radios I built as a kid as my first electronic projects. I used to even do the DX-ing mentioned making note of the farthest station I could pick up over night running to find a map to see where the city is located. My kids are not interested in anything like that, just xbox and sponge bob. How things have changed!
Yes, I enjoyed to make my own rigs, and still today, but newer generations ignore how to make simpler toys.
Contrary, a brother of a job companion, of only 20 years enjoy listening tango vinyls in a "Tocadiscos" (stand alone turntable), here known as "Wincofon". Ja ja ja....there is people for all.
I allways use this station to sync the clock of my cell phone 😀
It depends on the space weather if it's WWV or WWVH from Havai which can be heard better. Often they both can be heard simultaneously.
15MHz is usually best here.
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