I wonder why the current working frequency of 74,5495kHz was chosen? 
According to my receive system this is still on the edge of the noise 
sidebands from DCF77, and some 3dB S/N could be gained by operating 
from 1kHz to 3kHz further LF. Is this just my receiver/antenna 
(perhaps my antenna has gone HF as the leaves fall off the trees), or 
do others see this?

3dB doesn't sound much but is a lot with a marginal QRSS signal.

Any comments from other Eu receive stations?

Mike
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