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Canada’s CHU time station to close

As planned CHU signed off at 1410 UTC today. Audio dropped, then carrier gone a few seconds later. Nothing further heard on the three frequencies.

No direct reception on 14670 for me in Houston so I was monitoring 3330 and 7850 via an SDR in Vermont. Those had solid levels on the SDR but there was no reception of 14670, perhaps that transmitter signed off early?

RIP to CHU.
 
CTListener said:
Gone at 1410. Looney Tunes "that's all folks" sound effects being heard now. From where??? CHU? The ticking is continuing, but there's audio weirdness, English, French, sound effects, accompanying it. Signal also seems weaker. What the heck is this? A pirate protest?
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Hams/pirates congregate on WWV's frequencies (especially 10 MHz), too. I call it "the party on WWV":
 
I remember CHU from my boyhood, it was one of the first shortwave stations I could get with the cheap multiband radio I got at Heck's (kind of like a 1970's Appalachian Walmart). I know that back then, they read the time as "Eastern Standard Time", or in French, "heure normale d'est". I don't know when they switched to Coordinated Universal Time.
 


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