Hello,
Does anyone have any schematics or recommendations for such for
building a WWV receiver? I can't afford to buy one due to
disability-related medical expenses, but I could afford to build one
with some help. The help I can get. The schematic I have not. Can you
please help? Thank you very much.

Radio Shack made very inexpensive desktop WWV receivers which were part of
their Weatyherradio line. I have opne which picks up WWV fairly well from New
York.
Originally sold for $39, but on EBAy for 10-15 bucks...probabbly cheaper than
you could build it for. Do EBay search for WWV

If all you want is to hear WWV (Colorado) or WWVH (Hawaii), almost any SW
receiver should work. But there is so much more to hear out there that would
brighten your day if you could gather the coins s. Sorry to hear about you
being laid up .

"Radioman390" wrote in message
...
Radio Shack made very inexpensive desktop WWV receivers which were part of
their Weatyherradio line. I have opne which picks up WWV fairly well from
New
York.
Originally sold for $39, but on EBAy for 10-15 bucks...probabbly cheaper
than
you could build it for. Do EBay search for WWV

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:10:17 -0600, Radioman390 wrote
(in message ):

Radio Shack made very inexpensive desktop WWV receivers which were part of
their Weatyherradio line. I have opne which picks up WWV fairly well from New
York.
Originally sold for $39, but on EBAy for 10-15 bucks...probabbly cheaper than
you could build it for. Do EBay search for WWV


I don't know if it's the same one you're describing but R/S had one of their
"cube" radios (about 3"x3"x3") which picked up WWV/H on theree or four freqs.

This would have been in the 70's.

/Gray/

In article ,
Ray D. O'Mann wrote:
Hello,
Does anyone have any schematics or recommendations for such for
building a WWV receiver? I can't afford to buy one due to
disability-related medical expenses, but I could afford to build one
with some help. The help I can get. The schematic I have not. Can you
please help? Thank you very much.


There are several computer programs to sync the clock in any commputer
to a source with tied to NIST via the internet. If you turn on all the
features it automatically adjusts for the round-trip delays, and the
drift in the crystal on your PC and will be accurate to 10's of
milliseconds.

This is called NTP (Network Time Protocol)

I can think of a couple of ways to set this up if you have
a dial-up internet connection.

See http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/
and http://www.ntp.org/

It's been a while since I set this up on a Windows
machine.

--
Al Dykes
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"Al Dykes" wrote in message
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In article ,
Ray D. O'Mann wrote:
Hello,
Does anyone have any schematics or recommendations for such for
building a WWV receiver? I can't afford to buy one due to
disability-related medical expenses, but I could afford to build one
with some help. The help I can get. The schematic I have not. Can you
please help? Thank you very much.


There are several computer programs to sync the clock in any commputer
to a source with tied to NIST via the internet. If you turn on all the
features it automatically adjusts for the round-trip delays, and the
drift in the crystal on your PC and will be accurate to 10's of
milliseconds.

This is called NTP (Network Time Protocol)

I can think of a couple of ways to set this up if you have
a dial-up internet connection.

See http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/
and http://www.ntp.org/


Here's a very good and easy to use application... It's called D4 (Dimension
4) time.

http://www.ise.ufl.edu/kisko/files/f...20Time%20Sync/

Works with Win9x/ME but not with XP (XP has it's own time sync application).

"Ray D. O'Mann" wrote in message
om...
Hello,
Does anyone have any schematics or recommendations for such for
building a WWV receiver? I can't afford to buy one due to
disability-related medical expenses, but I could afford to build one
with some help. The help I can get. The schematic I have not. Can you
please help? Thank you very much.

Do you want to use the WWV receiver for a time or frequency standard?

Frank Dresser

Brenda Ann wrote:

"Al Dykes" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Ray D. O'Mann wrote:
Hello,
Does anyone have any schematics or recommendations for such for
building a WWV receiver? I can't afford to buy one due to
disability-related medical expenses, but I could afford to build one
with some help. The help I can get. The schematic I have not. Can you
please help? Thank you very much.


There are several computer programs to sync the clock in any commputer
to a source with tied to NIST via the internet. If you turn on all the
features it automatically adjusts for the round-trip delays, and the
drift in the crystal on your PC and will be accurate to 10's of
milliseconds.

This is called NTP (Network Time Protocol)

I can think of a couple of ways to set this up if you have
a dial-up internet connection.

See http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/
and http://www.ntp.org/


Here's a very good and easy to use application... It's called D4 (Dimension
4) time.

http://www.ise.ufl.edu/kisko/files/f...20Time%20Sync/

Works with Win9x/ME but not with XP (XP has it's own time sync application).

Are these time sync' applications/websites free of spyware?


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"starman" wrote in message
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Are these time sync' applications/websites free of spyware?


I can vouch for D4 only.. never had any spyware problems with it.

Ray D. O'Mann wrote:
Hello,
Does anyone have any schematics or recommendations for such for
building a WWV receiver? I can't afford to buy one due to
disability-related medical expenses, but I could afford to build one
with some help. The help I can get. The schematic I have not. Can you
please help? Thank you very much.

For the price of a receiver kit, I would look around for a el-cheapo
shortwave receiver for several reasons.

1. You may not always be able to hear the time and signal stations.
2. There a lot more stations to be heard than time and signal.
3. Go here, http://www.novia.net/~sadams/My_Page...rld_Times.html

and read about this. I think you will enjoy this approach.

A kit for WWV only is available from

http://www.hobbytron.net/R-HFRC-1.html

It sells currently for around U.S. $39.°°.



Myrton - N1GKE -


"Find solutions, not fault."

p.s. Brrrrrrrrrrrrr ! It is still very cold here in southern New
England, but great for BCB-DX'ing anyway ! ! !