@jaybird110127 I should have thought of doing this. I live even closer to the transmitter. And am sort of glad it’s gone lol.my cheap equipment sometimes struggled on the shortwave bands with how powerful the signal was.
@jaybird110127 They’re made by the government. So legally they’re in the public domain. I could file a freedom of information request. Or whatever we call it in Canada.
@fastfinge LOL you should. Course they'd probably find some justification for refusing. "Nah, man, we can't have anyone pretending to be CHU, so we fed those recordings to an assembler seconds after the shutdown at 14​:10:​01 UTC."
@fastfinge Well, I mean, the timecode generator (that's the WWV term) or whatever machine they were using to generate the signal had to have a copy of the recordings, so unless they've already thrown that away they should be able to fire it up with output going to a Zoom H5 Studio. Not that they'd actually do that just for one guy, but they probably could.
@Alan@fastfinge Yeah the project at github.com/ka9q/wwvsim recently got real voice announcements for the time, and these recordings came off the WWV and WWVH telephone services which means they're much lower quality than you'd get if you were listening to the direct output of the timecode generator, but at least it's something.
@Alan@fastfinge If you want to hear what audio direct from the timecode generator sounds like, check out some tracks from "At the Tone: A Little History of NIST Radio Stations WWV and WWVH 1955-2019" here: www.myke.me/portfolio/at-the-tone/
