Topband: Unusual transatlantic very long waves propagation.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Price Smith <w0rihps at sbcglobal.net>
To: VE2TZT <ve2tzt at arrl.net>; topband at contesting.com
Sent: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:37 pm
Subject: Re: Topband: Unusual transatlantic very long waves propagation.


> This night, at Montreal, for the 2sd time in 4 years (previous time 
was
> end of December 2007), my two lows cost European ''atomic'' clocks 
with 1
> inch ferrite antennas had perfectly synchronised (date, time etc...) 
on
> DCF77 which is a 50kW / 77.5kHz transmitter located in Germany. It is 
a
> 5800 km trip.
>
> Each time, this had occurred in a period of particularly good top 
band
> conditions.
>
> Gilles, VE2TZT

W2PM replies:

I have seen the exact same thing here with an MFJ "Atomic Clock". It 
almost never works but when it does 160 is open at my very noise prone, 
limited 160 QTH.