I'll be recording certain things for the upcoming total solar eclipse on August 21st. I'll be near Salem, Oregon. I would like to have an audible time signal that will be heard on video recordings of the eclipse, and I'm wondering if I can do that with my old Radio Shack Pro-97? Can anyone help me? It's been many years since I've used the scanner, and longer since I've done any programming on it. I do have Starsoft's Win97 v1.37 installed and working. I also have a Premium account here at RadioReference.
I'm looking to do the following.
1) Have a reliable audible time signal in the background, such as from:
https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/radio-stations/wwv
From what I can tell though, my Pro-97 will not scan a high enough frequency for WWV. They broadcast on 2.5, 5, 10, 15 and 20MHz. Near as I can tell the Pro-97 can't do any of those frequencies.
Pro-97 Frequency Coverage: 25-54, 108-136.9875, 137-174, 216.0025-221.9975, 222-225, 225.025-405.975, 406-512, 806-960 (excluding cellular) and 1240-1300MHz
Am I reading that correctly in that the Pro-97 will reach various frequencies between 25 and 960 KHz, and then from 1240 to 1300 MHz. But it will not touch between 2.5 and 20 MHz?
Is there any other highly accurate time signal that I can pick up with the Pro-97?
2) If there's anything interesting between Central California and Northern Oregon then I'm interested as well. That I think I can handle by simply using the import process in Win97 of the counties between here and Salem, Oregon.
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Is anyone here doing anything similar?
Thanks,
Paul
I'm looking to do the following.
1) Have a reliable audible time signal in the background, such as from:
https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/radio-stations/wwv
From what I can tell though, my Pro-97 will not scan a high enough frequency for WWV. They broadcast on 2.5, 5, 10, 15 and 20MHz. Near as I can tell the Pro-97 can't do any of those frequencies.
Pro-97 Frequency Coverage: 25-54, 108-136.9875, 137-174, 216.0025-221.9975, 222-225, 225.025-405.975, 406-512, 806-960 (excluding cellular) and 1240-1300MHz
Am I reading that correctly in that the Pro-97 will reach various frequencies between 25 and 960 KHz, and then from 1240 to 1300 MHz. But it will not touch between 2.5 and 20 MHz?
Is there any other highly accurate time signal that I can pick up with the Pro-97?
2) If there's anything interesting between Central California and Northern Oregon then I'm interested as well. That I think I can handle by simply using the import process in Win97 of the counties between here and Salem, Oregon.
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Is anyone here doing anything similar?
Thanks,
Paul