hfdxer
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Hey all I received for the first time the Ecuador time station on 3.810 LSB last night. 0600 UTC. The beep was loud and I could hear the spanish male. Will check it out again today to see propagation. It was clear of ham radio traffic
3.810 LSB Time Station
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ridgescan
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Hey put it here I wanna try for it as you get it- I'll keep watching tonight.
hfdxer
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Ecuador Time Station
okay
Time: 03:49 UTC
no time station audible at this time just a one ham operator on close to frequency. Will try at 04:30 UTC
okay
Time: 03:49 UTC
no time station audible at this time just a one ham operator on close to frequency. Will try at 04:30 UTC
hfdxer
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Time: 04:30 UTC
at this time I can hear the "beep" tone in the background. Ham operators near the frequency but no Spanish male voice at this time only audible "beep"
at this time I can hear the "beep" tone in the background. Ham operators near the frequency but no Spanish male voice at this time only audible "beep"
ridgescan
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Wow you nailed a difficult DX there man! Good one
I tried for it a few times here and just couldn't get anything.
I tried for it a few times here and just couldn't get anything.
3810 kHz HD2 IOA 1 KW 3375 Miles
Ecuadorian Military Navy time and frequency standard station transmits one-second tone-pulse time-markers and local time announcements in Spanish between 19:00 to 07:00 UTC from the Instituto Oceanográfico de the Armada in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The one-second tone-pulse time-markers are 600 Hz the first 15 minutes, 400 Hz the second 15 minutes, and are omitted the last 30 minutes of each hour. Station identification is transmitted every hour between 40 minutes and 59 seconds and 59 minutes and 40 seconds. The signal strength is typically about S7 in Salt Lake City during winter nights when the skip is long, but transmissions sometimes are difficult to hear because of strong interference from U.S. Amateur Radio stations.
HF Time and Frequency Standard Stations
Ecuadorian Military Navy time and frequency standard station transmits one-second tone-pulse time-markers and local time announcements in Spanish between 19:00 to 07:00 UTC from the Instituto Oceanográfico de the Armada in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The one-second tone-pulse time-markers are 600 Hz the first 15 minutes, 400 Hz the second 15 minutes, and are omitted the last 30 minutes of each hour. Station identification is transmitted every hour between 40 minutes and 59 seconds and 59 minutes and 40 seconds. The signal strength is typically about S7 in Salt Lake City during winter nights when the skip is long, but transmissions sometimes are difficult to hear because of strong interference from U.S. Amateur Radio stations.
HF Time and Frequency Standard Stations
Token
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Peaking at S9 or a little better here tonight, 01/15/2011, 0655 UTC.
Odd that some of the descriptions online say 1900 to 0700 UTC, it is still on the air after 0700, it is now 0706 and still chugging along. Other sources list it as 24/7.
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Odd that some of the descriptions online say 1900 to 0700 UTC, it is still on the air after 0700, it is now 0706 and still chugging along. Other sources list it as 24/7.
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hfdxer
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Time: 0700 UTC;
hearing beep and male id voice. just above noise level
hearing beep and male id voice. just above noise level
Token
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I threw a vid capture of this station up on YouTube last night, for folks that have not heard it before. On the waterfall display it is very clear that the signal is H3E, single sideband plus full carrier, in this case the LSB is included, and the USB is fully suppressed. I suppose you could call the included time tones H2B.
YouTube - Time Station HD2IOA, 3810 kHz, LSB +carrier, January 15 2011, 0659 UTC
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YouTube - Time Station HD2IOA, 3810 kHz, LSB +carrier, January 15 2011, 0659 UTC
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dd364
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I heard this yesterday using my LA390 desktop loop.It was weak but I got it.
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if u realy want to hear that signal move to the south like texas arkansas youll hear it all the time it use to do the time every min. but now its every sec i guess they dont like the ham radio guys on that freq.
if u realy want to hear that signal move to the south like texas arkansas youll hear it all the time it use to do the time every min. but now its every sec i guess they dont like the ham radio guys on that freq.
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How long has it been since it only used to announce on the minute? The first time I ever realized what I was hearing was a number of years ago, maybe 6 or 7, and it was announcing more than once a minute then.
Also, it is not announcing every second now, it is announcing once every 10 seconds on the XX:00, XX:10, XX:20, XX:30, XX:40, and XX:50. It misses the XX:50 time tick at the top of each hour, and possibly other times when it ID's.
And the ham radio guys have been using that frequency a lot longer than HD2IOA has existed. Why HD2IOA selected this freq is kind of beyond me, at times the interference must be pretty intense.
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Also, it is not announcing every second now, it is announcing once every 10 seconds on the XX:00, XX:10, XX:20, XX:30, XX:40, and XX:50. It misses the XX:50 time tick at the top of each hour, and possibly other times when it ID's.
And the ham radio guys have been using that frequency a lot longer than HD2IOA has existed. Why HD2IOA selected this freq is kind of beyond me, at times the interference must be pretty intense.
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