The DL8AAM QSL Collection:

from
TIMESIGNAL
and
STANDARD-FREQUENCY
radio stations

from around the world
inculding many 'historic' ones

by Thomas M. Rösner (DL8AAM)
2001-2004
 

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The MOST famous ones:   WWV   and   WWVH

nearly every HAM knows these ones, because of their useful HF-Propagation forecasts,
but not so many of you know that they issue nice QSL-Cards for SWL-Reception reports also
 
 

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QSL-Card from  WWV  (Fort Colins, Colorado - USA) for a SWL-Report on 10 MHz from 2001,
note the serial number 29.388 of the QSL  !!

 BTW, both QSLs are used since more then 20 years and are still available...  ;-)

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 ... and QSL-Card from WWVH  (Kauai - Hawaii), this one for a SWL-Report on 15 MHz.
Check out the serial number 17.722, reached in 1981 !




 and now a caleidoscope of QSL-Cards from
TIMESIGNALs and STANDARD-FREQUENCY radio stations
around the world

sadly most of the timesignal stations went off-the-air in the last years,
only very few are still actice on shortwave (e.g. CHU, WWV, WWVH, YVTO, BPM, HD2IOA etc.)
and some more on longwave (DCF77, MSF, HBG etc.)

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Let us start with one of the nicest QSL-cards which is still available on the market,
beside of WWV and WWVH   ;-)

Callsign: HBG

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HBG is operated by the Bundesamt für Metrologie und Akkreditierung (Swiss Federal Time Authority), Berne, for a reception report in 2003. They transmit today on longwave 75 kHz with 20 kW from Prangins.
 
 
Callsign: JJY Callsigns:  OMA and OLB5 
QSL-Card from  JJY 
  from the Frequency Standard Division of the
Radio Research Laboratories in Konganei,
Tokyo - Japan.
for SWL-Report from May 1980.
HF closed down in 2001.   (Backside)		 ... and from the former
Czechoslovakian Academy of Science, 
Astronomical Insitute, Praha.
They operated  OMA  on 2500 and 50 kHz
and  OLB5  on 3170 kHz.   - all are closed -
QSL from 1981 for OLB5 (Backside).

 
 
Callsign: LOL  Callsign: YVTO  Callsigns:
FTH42, FTK77 and FTN87 
(Backside) (Backside)
Observatorio Naval of the Argentine Navy, Buenos Aires  (1982)
- closed -		 Observatorio Naval 'Juan Manuel Cagigal'
of the Venezulan Navy (1981). 
- still active, check 5000 kHz -
 Observatoire de Paris
QSL for FTN87 on 13873 kHz (1979)
- closed -

 

Callsign:   CHU
 

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 QSL-Cards from  CHU, the National Research Council of Canada.
     (left from the 1980s right a new one from 2001).
(Backside)

BTW: This station is nowadays active on 3330, 7335 and 14670 kHz.


Callsign: BSF Callsign: BPM 
(Backside)
QSL-Folder of the taiwanese (Rep. of China) 
'Standard Frequency and Timesignal Broadcasting Station'   BSF
of the Telecommunication Laboratories, Chung-Li
from 1980.
Serial number of this QSL is 316.		 ... and a QSL from their colleagues 
of the other China ...hi 
BPM  
Shaanxi Astronomical Observatory
 of the Chinese Academy of Sciency,
for a report for 15 MHz from 1981.
- still active -

 
 
Callsign: IBF Callsign: MSF 
QSL-Card from  IBF
  of Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale Galileo Ferraris 'IEN' -Torino, Italy
for SWL-Report for 5000 kHz from 1979
(Backside).		 ... and from MSF  of the National Physical Laboratory (Teddington) for a SWL-Report 
for 10 MHz (1980) (Backside of the card).
- this station is still active, but on 60 kHz only -

 


Backside of the QSL from  RID  (Irkutsk) on 15004 kHz from 1994 - now closed.
Operated by the Russian State Time And Frequency Service, Institute of Metrology for Time and Space (IMVP). They transmitted always +4 kHz above the usual 'standard and time signal station frequencies'
(Tnx for the image to Ary Boeder, The Netherlands).
The only actice TS station from the Russian Federation on shortwave today is RWM from Moscow,
always -4 kHz from the 'TS-window', means 9996 kHz etc.


Last but not least our german ones
 

a)   W e s t   G e r m a n y

 I. DCF77

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QSL from the the well known german longwave beacon DCF77 (Mainflingen) from 2003,
it looks like that today nearly all watches are DCF77 remote controled here in Germany ("DCF77-Uhr").
DCF77 is operated by the PTB (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Labor für Zeiteinheit in  Braunschweig).
Tnx fr QSL to SWL Andrea Dolle.
 

II.   German Hydrographical Institute, Hamburg

Frontside of the QSL of the German Hydrographical Institute, Hamburg.
They did not have own transmitters, for that reason they used the facilities of the german coastal radio stations
Norddeich Radio (Callsigns: DAN, DAM) and Kiel Radio (Callsign DAO) at some special time-windows .

See QSL-backsides for DAN/DAO (2614 and 2775 kHz) and for DAM  (8638,5 and 16980 kHz) both from 1981.
 
 

b)   E a s t   G e r m a n y

 Callsign: Y3S

QSL-Folder from the 'Time Signal Emitter of the German Democratic Republic' (Callsign: Y3S) from the year 1980.
This station used 4525 kHz and was located in Nauen.
The East German PTT ('Deutsche Post der DDR') who operated the transmitter issued QSL-Cards for Y3S also.


I still wait for QSLs from RWM (Moscow), HD2IOA (Guayaquil, Ecuador - active -), VNG (Australia - closed -).
Still reported to be active is the russian chain on longwave with  RJH63, RJH66, RJH69, RHJ77 etc.
Surf the wave and chase them and don't be afraid of asking them for QSLs, many of them do QSLing.
Please any infos to me :  dl8aam @ darc.de    73 es GDXing ! Tom - DL8AAM (SWL-Registration: DE8AAM)

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Last updated: 14 Sept 2004
(c) Thomas M. Rösner (DL8AAM), 2001-2004
Email: dl8aam @ darc.de