(meteorobs) Upcoming Leap Second & CHU to change frequencies

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Here are the details:  
_http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/blog/joerao/2008/12/07/wait-just-second_ 
(http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/blog/joerao/2008/12/07/wait-just-second) 
 
 
Apparently, radio station CHU in Canada will be  switching to a different 
frequency on Wednesday evening at 00h UTC.  That  means listeners who are tuned 
in to 7,335 Khz. to listen for the extra second  will hear the station 
disappear from the airwaves on this particular frequency  (after 70-years!) 
immediately upon the insertion of the extra tick.   The time signals will then move to 
7,850 Khz.
 
For more details, see: 
_http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/common_files/stories/chu/communique_e.pdf_ 
(http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/common_files/stories/chu/communique_e.pdf) 
 
Needless to say, those  listening for the Leap Second should either tune to 
the "other" CHU frequencies  at 14.670 or 3,335 or tune to WWV instead!  
Personally, I've been listening  to CHU mostly on 7,335 all my life so this is kind 
of sad (even though  they'll only be moving a short way "up the dial" on the 
40 meter  band).    


-- joe  rao



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