Re: [LEAPSECS] went pretty dang smoothly at this end

From: Keith Winstein <keithw_at_MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 06:52:13 -0500 (EST)

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, Steve Allen wrote:

> On Sat 2005-12-31T20:51:03 -0500, Keith Winstein hath writ:
>
> > (b) Am I mistaken, or did WWV fail to correctly beep in the new year?
>
> We had two shortwave radios going, one on 10 MHz, one on 15 MHz,
> and with the two the ionosphere was pretty much tamed.
> To my memory they did it all right, including the change in the DUT1
> clicks, but I can check later.

Looks like you were right. John Ackermann on time-nuts has posted some
recordings at http://www.febo.com/time-freq/leapsecond-2005/, and the 1.5
kHz tone is there. Guess we were mistaken after all.

-Keith
Received on Sun Jan 01 2006 - 03:52:55 PST

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