WWV Radio Towers: Fort Collins Colorado

[Radioblade1]

Does anyone remember (during the 60s) when wwv transmitted an unusual sound "da-diddita-da-diddita?" As a kid I thought it was a satellite. I have tried to find recordings of this with no luck.

[jackwolf131]

ok, thanks for telling me

[MaryStewart]

cool! love to get wwv during the day!

[bradmann85]

sometimes i can get a strong signal here in south central texas just as strong as you have it on a pocket radio as long as im outside.

[irishpride527]

Cool vid. I used to set my receiver's clock with WWV before the radio got zapped by a faulty adapter I plugged it into. :-( Btw, if you're a geek, then that makes me one, too, and I'm proud of it! Geeks/SWLs, past and present - UNITE!!

[kjillian1]

Cool geek trip. I would love to go past WWV but have only been as close as Denver. Someday. :-)

[TheBroadcastEngineer]

Way cool, thanks for the post !

[iluvdx60]

HOW ABOUT VIDEOS ON THE REMOTE FCC SITES?ISN'T FOR EXAMPLE GRAND ISLAND REMOTE CONTROLLED NOW?

[stybarrow]

i have heard the US government has been building / locating lots of facilities between Denver and Boulder (including the airport, of course).

[Neillil411]

Hey dude! They broadcast "Time if day, standard time interval, and other related information" on 2.5, 5, 10, 15, and 20MHZ. Wow! 15mhz skips through the atmosphere all the way to Florida where I can hear it.

Ok, I need to get laid now.

[philglassfan]

What's with the stupid sound effects?

[scotsmanlerxt]

@philglassfan I'm stupid and have tourettes?

[letseeitplease]

thanks for posting your video, i enjoyed it, i have listened to wwv since the 60s, do you know who funds wwv? is it owned by the us gov? just curious, thanks

[scotsmanlerxt]

@letseeitplease The last time I listened, WWV was connected to the National Bureau Of Standards which is a US Government entity if I'm not mistaken. Here is a link if you are curious.

nist.gov/physlab/div847/

[E34BMW535i]

i am in manitoba, canada, and i can pick this up at 5mhz and sometimes 10mhz. my casio wave ceptor watch uses this station every night to keep accurate time.

[DRNEGOLICIS]

i get the one in hawayi some times on a good night i get wwv the strongest on 1500 but some times on 5 on a good day

[jackwolf131]

I used to listen to that station when I was a kid.

[dnave21]

looks like area 51

[quantumbits]

"best signal strength" Ha Ha  You know it!

[paolo2paolo2]

hi i received this signal in 15,000 khz in Lima PERU nica Video!!!!!! look my videos

[gerby76]

My wife's from Ft Collins so we drove by there visiting family. Took some photos. We showed the photos to a friend who visited and found this video only to BUST up laughing for minutes ;-) PS I got laid this morning

[steadfastcoward]

Dog : ) Been DIY for six years. By the way, if you sit listening long enough, it's like you can almost remove the morphine drip it's so soothing, Rescue the health system, listen.

[CircuitGuy75]

I first heard WWV when I was 11 y/o. I always wanted to see the transmitter site. Thanks for posting it.

[thenewageriseth]

My late dad used to have this leather bound LARGE black shortwave/AM/FM radio I used for a number of years.

The first time I heard this kinda station was when I was 12. It was rather clear-the quality of the radio was good.

Always figured that our home PCS, Macs and laptops got their signals from the headquarters in Colorado. THE TIME on them are virtually NEVER OFF. Always on point! lol

I find this stuff fascinating.

[denelson83]

NIST should build a little hut just outside the gate that could act as a visitors' centre for WWV.

[wd4owa]

I too will have to admit I was a WWV junkie! I'd set the clocks in my parents house in Miami, Florida. And that was BEFORE quartz crystal clocks. My wind-up watches back then were lucky not to gain or loose less than several MINUTES per week. I was so excited to get my first quartz watch - a cheap Timex - and it kept time within a minute per month.

I'd sit and listen to that station for hours. I always thought it was just me that did that until I saw your video!

Long live WWV!

[robertoperotti]

hi, scostmanlerxt: I hear this signal last week from Buenos Aires Argentina, South America, at 15.000khz freq. the range of this station is very large, a lot of KW jaja great video 73 'dx & Roberto (LW5DLH)

[HottBoi90210]

yes I get excited about the time of day too

[HighFlyer186]

Great video, nice to see the towers. Keep up the good work.

73 Peter G0OMH

[matkovicha]

I am the same way about the purpose of towers, I always want to know what they are for.

[LutheranLucciola]

YAY!!! ATOMIC CLOCK!!!

(Yes, will be getting some tonight...ok, ok...)

[thecooldude111]

this is wwv broadcasting on 2.5,5,10,15 and 25 Mhz.From fort collins colorado........dude you are soooo coool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[denelson83]

20 MHz. WWV hasn't transmitted on 25 MHz since 1977.

[hillbillyprofane]

Thanks for posting this, really interesting! I'm not sure why, but WWV scares me a little bit. Never been able to figure that one out!

[scotsmanlerxt]

I suspect any large scale radio setup would remind people (myself included) of movies depicting "evil" through the use of them. I was a little bit scared by tall towers at night when I was a kid; it was the mystery that bothered me at the time. Why no signs or indications what the tower was for? Why out in the middle of nowhere? So many unanswered questions left my active imagination moving in too many directions. Then there are those spy number stations on shortwave, but that's another thing.

[quantumbits]

There are many critical services that rely on that time standard now. Maybe inaccessible for security reasons I think.

[gccengineering1996]

WWV is hard to get inside my apt. Cause the signal is weak, but it its only good for propagation studies to see which means that if I can get the station on 2.5 MHz that means the tropical band is open.

[luxlisbon85]

my short wave radio died...I'll have to make do with this video until I get a new one :(

[ve2so]

The visit is very disapointing, we don't see much of the antennas. You should settle a visit with the staff.

[scotsmanlerxt]

True, the gates were locked and the WWV web site says no tours are available. The best thing anyone can do is get to the second gate and shoot through it. I hope to return some day and do this. Merci.

[anilomd]

Google "At the tone WWV" This website has historical WWV audio clips. Enjoy.

[psternfan]

Classic time checks - the newest radio format.

[anilomd]

I love WWV. Still working on getting laid.

[sm63008]

In the 1950:ies I was DX-ing (listening to short wave radio stations) and remember using WWV as watch: "WWV National Bureau of Standards, when the tone returns Eastern Standard Time is 8.55 PM....beeeeep".

Note that 8.55 PM is 02.55 AM in Sweden and that I hade to go to school in the morning... I was lucky enough to use headphones so my parents did not hear anything.

[luxlisbon85]

that's pretty cool :-)

[scotsmanlerxt]

Thanks to everyone posting your nice comments on this clip, I throughly enjoy reading them. I had no idea this would get so much interest. :-)

[NipkowDisk]

Radio station WWV has long been one of my favorites- they don't change the format every week :-)

If they would only return the voice of Don Elliot Heald...! Cool vid.

[kc7fys]

Well, I will get laid AND enjoy this video, thank you.

By the way, a request: could you or somebody put up a video about how to calibrate a marker generator using WWV? How do I zero my transceiver dial using WWV?

[lesorciercalifornien]

21:58 UTC, but on what date?

You know, in case you ever need to establish an alibi or something :)

[lesorciercalifornien]

never mind, it says in the beginning of the video....duuuh

[LadyKatieADACG]

Interesting video

[cqsix]

WOW! I thought I was the only one!

I drove by there (E. County Rd. 58) Back in

July 1997. I live in CA but grew up in CO.

I was visiting some friends in Colorado Springs and stopped by WWV on the way home.

I also used WWV to set clocks and zero beat

oscillators for freq counters. Thanks for

posting!

[fernblatt]

I think they may give tours at times, or used to

[fernblatt]

Very good.

[anilomd]

That's the nice thing about the internet...sometimes you find out that there are others that have the same unusual interests. Thanks for the vid dude. and yes, you are damn right: I have to get laid.

[hillbillyprofane]

Enjoyed that, really interesting stuff!

[queenvictoria79]

Thank you for posting this! I thought I was the only one obsessed with wwv. :p

[mrfixer999]

Hello, I am also afflicted with 2.5, 5, 10, 15 mhz disease. Whenever I fix a shortwave radio, that is my first test frequencys. Sometimes i like to listen to it for background noise, if there is no interesting programming from the rest of the world. I also think that the WWV announcer is the voice of "Bob" Dobbs of the Church of the subgenious. Its amazing how much Scotsmanlerxt and I look a like, but I cut my hair in 2000. Cool Video!

[r06u3AP]

Oh, and yes, I've been getting laid, despite being a old Geek. Go figure!

[scotsmanlerxt]

Good for you! You live in Vanuatu? What ever possessed you to look for WWV? Thanks for your comments! :-)

[r06u3AP]

Long story, my friend. No, actually I live in Kentucky. But I ran across a YT vid about JJY in Japan going dark a few years ago and it got me curious about any other YT vids about SW time stations. Voila! Here I am! Now, just how I came across the JJY vid, now THAT's a LONG story!

[r06u3AP]

Naw, that's not being a geek. Now, remembering that back in the 60's when WWV transmitted a time code that had such a distinct sound that it was used in the Star Trek episode "All Our Yesterdays" as the sound effect for the Atavacron - now THAT's being a GEEK!

[scotsmanlerxt]

Oh yeah! That truly IS being a Geek! Heh heh.

[Atomic101Heli]

HAHA your funny I love listining to the WWV station infact I listined to it last nite to set my watch it was 4sec off

[ekatqn]

I would have made the trip too. I agree that it is too bad that you couldn't get a tour.

[Buzzygirl42]

Interesting video, too bad you couldn't get a tour!