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Re: LF: Re: ZEVS RX ant question, now success - 60 Hz in Europe

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Subject: Re: LF: Re: ZEVS RX ant question, now success - 60 Hz in Europe
From: "Markus Vester" <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 22:17:23 +0200
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Thanks Alan.
 
Actually the time nuts do keep an online archive
... will look if I can find some hints there.
 
73, Markus
 
PS Wish we could have such a nice archive for blacksheep as well ;-)
 

From: Alan Melia
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2014 10:07 PM
Subject: LF: Re: ZEVS RX ant question, now success - 60 Hz in Europe

Hi Markus there has been a lot of discussion on the time-nuts group [email protected]
 on 60Hz frequeny accuracy across the US.. There are web sites which publish plots of the variation. I am afraid I dont think there is an archive attachedto the Group, though I believe it is possible to find old messages. I do have a lot of these I will have a search though it may take some time.
 
Alan
G3NYK
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Subject: LF: ZEVS RX ant question, now success - 60 Hz in Europe

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Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2014 1:18 AM
Subject: Re: LF: ZEVS RX ant question, now success - 60 Hz in Europe

Hi Wolf, Stefan,
 
yes I also noticed a weak 60 Hz line during my ELF experiment, and it is there in the accelerated wav files. Here are two spectrograms with 15.3 mHz bin width:
 
Unlike Zevs, 60 Hz seems to be more pronounced during 1855-2055 UT recording, ie our evening when the Atlantic was still in daylight. It was hardly visible in the morning, 0541-0741 UT.
 
During the two evening hours, the 60 hz line drifted up and down by about two pixels, 30 mHz. That frequency instability may actually be a unique signature which can be used to exclude local origin, simply by comparing simultaneous traces from two different receive sites. I think there may even be an online log of American line frequency history, but couldn't find it on the web - any hints from the group?
 
Best 73,
Markus (DF6NM)
 

Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2014 12:41 AM
Subject: Re: LF: ZEVS RX ant question, now success

Hi Stefan and all,

you wrote:
  Yes, a good idea. I will try to catch it :-) But how do i know that it is the US mains instead of a 60 Hz monitor? Is the 60 Hz from the mains more stable?
I guess the opposite: Similar to our Eu mains frequency, the US 60 Hz signal "wanders around" very slowly, as the load changes, but in the long run they also keep the frequency stable, nation-wide. Not sure about the maximum excursion from the nominal frequency (I lost the notes and screenshots years ago when a harddisk died) and how many mHz per minute the frequency may drift. But you can see the weak 60 Hz trace in Renato Romero's ZEVS spectrogram at

http://www.vlf.it/zevs/zevs.htm

73,
  Wolf .

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