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WD8DBY

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DOD Provisional Timeslot on WWV and WWVH
« on: March 27, 2019, 06:08:15 AM »

From April 20 to 3 May, WWV and WWVH will broadcast a DOD message at 10 minutes past the hour on WWV and at 50 minutes past the hour on WWVH. This April-May time period coincides with the Vital Connection interoperability exercise being held in Wisconsin. Future timeslots will coincide with the Vital Connection exercise Ohio in June; DOD COMEX 19-3 in Aug and the DOD COMEX 19-4 in Oct.

Following the proof of concept this year, we anticipate that the DOD broadcast time slot will become year-round full time.

This broadcast timeslot will voice announce upcoming exercises and how the amateur radio community can become involved in various exercises. To begin, the broadcast messages will likely be static...future exercises we hope to be able to update the broadcast throughout the exercise as notional conditions change.

The broadcast message will ask listeners to provide reception reports and feedback to a specified URL.

Tune into WWV/H on 2.5, 5, 10, 15, and 20 MHz and submit a reception report and requested feedback.
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N2AYM

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RE: DOD Provisional Timeslot on WWV and WWVH
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2019, 09:59:58 AM »

I am not familiar with timeslots on WWV and this technology required to receive this timeslot.
Can you please highlight how this works and what type of equipment is required to receive
these timeslots? TIA.....DE Dan N2AYM
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WD8DBY

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RE: DOD Provisional Timeslot on WWV and WWVH
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2019, 05:52:25 AM »

I am not familiar with timeslots on WWV and this technology required to receive this timeslot.
Can you please highlight how this works and what type of equipment is required to receive
these timeslots? TIA.....DE Dan N2AYM

Dan, the time slot I referred to is simply the minute, actually about 42 seconds, during the hour that the DOD voice announcement will be transmitted.  This is the same as the space weather announcement that is made at 18 minutes after each hour.

v/r

Paul
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N2AYM

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RE: DOD Provisional Timeslot on WWV and WWVH
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2019, 06:51:06 AM »

I am not familiar with timeslots on WWV and this technology required to receive this timeslot.
Can you please highlight how this works and what type of equipment is required to receive
these timeslots? TIA.....DE Dan N2AYM

Dan, the time slot I referred to is simply the minute, actually about 42 seconds, during the hour that the DOD voice announcement will be transmitted.  This is the same as the space weather announcement that is made at 18 minutes after each hour.

v/r

Paul

OK - so we are talking about "actual time", i mis-understood and am used to the term timeslot
in the communications industry such as used in tdma. tnx Paul
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N8AUC

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RE: DOD Provisional Timeslot on WWV and WWVH
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2019, 05:44:43 PM »

I am not familiar with timeslots on WWV and this technology required to receive this timeslot.
Can you please highlight how this works and what type of equipment is required to receive
these timeslots? TIA.....DE Dan N2AYM

The technology is very basic. WWV transmits in AM mode on its assigned frequencies.
Your HF rig will receive it just fine. Simply tune to one of the WWV operating frequencies
at 10 minutes past the hour, copy the message, and send a reception report as instructed
on the broadcast.

The reception report is extremely basic.

73 de N8AUC
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W8KVK

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RE: DOD Provisional Timeslot on WWV and WWVH
« Reply #5 on: April 21, 2019, 08:12:19 AM »

These announcements are indeed being included on WWV as of April 21,
and are carried at :10 after each hour.  The current bulletin concerns the
Wisconsin SimCom exercises May 1-3.  Unfortunately, the web address
they give for submitting reception reports loads 'blank' do to faulty coding.
The address they 'mean' to send us to is:
https://sites.google.com/site/dodmarsexercises/
https://sites.google.com/site/dodmarsexercises/.

The WWV reception report link is far left at bottom of list.

73/ted W8KVK - Athens OH
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RE: DOD Provisional Timeslot on WWV and WWVH
« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2019, 10:12:52 AM »

These announcements are indeed being included on WWV as of April 21,
and are carried at :10 after each hour.  The current bulletin concerns the
Wisconsin SimCom exercises May 1-3.  Unfortunately, the web address
they give for submitting reception reports loads 'blank' do to faulty coding.
The address they 'mean' to send us to is:
https://sites.google.com/site/dodmarsexercises/
https://sites.google.com/site/dodmarsexercises/.

The WWV reception report link is far left at bottom of list.

73/ted W8KVK - Athens OH


Thanks for the link.
Interesting that the "reception report" doesn't ask for date, time or frequency.
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N8AUC

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RE: DOD Provisional Timeslot on WWV and WWVH
« Reply #7 on: April 22, 2019, 07:16:01 AM »

These announcements are indeed being included on WWV as of April 21,
and are carried at :10 after each hour.  The current bulletin concerns the
Wisconsin SimCom exercises May 1-3.  Unfortunately, the web address
they give for submitting reception reports loads 'blank' do to faulty coding.
The address they 'mean' to send us to is:
https://sites.google.com/site/dodmarsexercises/
https://sites.google.com/site/dodmarsexercises/.

The WWV reception report link is far left at bottom of list.

73/ted W8KVK - Athens OH


Thanks for the link.
Interesting that the "reception report" doesn't ask for date, time or frequency.

That's interesting. The address I copied, and went to, worked just fine.
And it's not some google.com address, either. Although that link will get you
to the right web site.

I don't think giving away the URL online is the right thing to do though.
The whole purpose of the "exercise" is to copy the information over the air.
If you can't do that, then you shouldn't be sending a reception report.

And yes, the "reception report" is a bit sketchy. Should contain date, time,
frequency, signal report, etc. It's actually more like a survey than a reception report.

By the way, it used to be that if you actually sent a real reception report to WWV,
you will get a QSL card. I have a QSL card from WWV that hangs on the wall of
my shack. Not sure if they do that anymore, but they used to.

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KE5HVM

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RE: DOD Provisional Timeslot on WWV and WWVH
« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2019, 07:20:44 AM »

N8AUC,

I teach an astronomy class in Texas and sponsor our school's amateur radio club, K2CHS.

Anyway, as part of out unit on radio astronomy (solar flux, K-index, sunspot number, etc.), I had the students tune in to WWV and WWVH.  We sent a reception report and within a week or so received a really nice packet of information (letter from WWV, QSL card, and a nice color booklet about the station's operation).  The students were really excited to receive it!

So, as of 2016, WWV is still sending out nice printed materials in return for reception reports.

All the best,

Gerrit
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N8AUC

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RE: DOD Provisional Timeslot on WWV and WWVH
« Reply #9 on: April 24, 2019, 10:17:05 AM »

N8AUC,

I teach an astronomy class in Texas and sponsor our school's amateur radio club, K2CHS.

Anyway, as part of out unit on radio astronomy (solar flux, K-index, sunspot number, etc.), I had the students tune in to WWV and WWVH.  We sent a reception report and within a week or so received a really nice packet of information (letter from WWV, QSL card, and a nice color booklet about the station's operation).  The students were really excited to receive it!

So, as of 2016, WWV is still sending out nice printed materials in return for reception reports.

All the best,

Gerrit
KE5HVM

That's awesome, and good to hear.

The excitement of getting your first QSL card is pretty tough to beat.
Glad your students got to experience that!

73 de N8AUC
Eric
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WD8DBY

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RE: DOD Provisional Timeslot on WWV and WWVH
« Reply #10 on: April 25, 2019, 05:53:05 AM »

N8AUC,

I teach an astronomy class in Texas and sponsor our school's amateur radio club, K2CHS.

Anyway, as part of out unit on radio astronomy (solar flux, K-index, sunspot number, etc.), I had the students tune in to WWV and WWVH.  We sent a reception report and within a week or so received a really nice packet of information (letter from WWV, QSL card, and a nice color booklet about the station's operation).  The students were really excited to receive it!

So, as of 2016, WWV is still sending out nice printed materials in return for reception reports.

All the best,

Gerrit
KE5HVM

That's awesome, and good to hear.

The excitement of getting your first QSL card is pretty tough to beat.
Glad your students got to experience that!

73 de N8AUC
Eric


WWV/H still do QSL cards if you send reception report directly to the station...they are also doing a special centennial QSL card for the 100 year anniversary on 1 Oct.
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