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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: ChrisSmolinski on May 22, 2026, 1151 UTC
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As of June 22, 2026, the shortwave radio broadcast of the NRC's official time signal will no longer be available.
https://nrc.canada.ca/en/certifications-evaluations-standards/canadas-official-time/nrc-shortwave-station-broadcasts-chu
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Hard to believe the Canadians are doing this, but after they pulled the plug on their Weather band stations I suppose anything is possible. Maybe the CBC is next to get its plug pulled.
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This is sad to hear...
I think I remember seeing something years ago they were going to go off also but didnt.. Lets hope they dont do it this time either...
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Appeals to Canadian nationalism are pretty compelling nowadays, but still it's hard to justify a separate Canadian version of WWV.
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Ya maybe thats what they are thinking..
Does WWV make it into canada? I dont think very well if they do. Maybe WWVH hits western canada pretty good...
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Oh yeah... WWV / WWVH / WWVB covers Canada as well as they covered Western New York, back when I lived up there. And BTW, this weekend 5/29/2026, Amateur Radio Newsline covers CHU. https://www.arnewsline.org/
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What, like none of them at all ??? Guess that's what you said...
Well, that certainly opens up a log of internationally well-known frequencies
for pirate stations to potentially take over,
and tell us all the time----
or whatever you wish to tell us....
I remember once or twice having broadcasted on CHU frequencies,
after they had announced a temporary shutdown---
even had a show called 'Time' or something, although I think
it was only broadcast once.....
Hmmm, I think it still exists on outboard hard-drives...!
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The exodus off of shortwave continues unabated, I guess. Given the direction of the first world lately, I don't find this movement towards centralized telecom infrastructure to be all that wise but I'm just some jagoff I guess.
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The movement towards centralized telecom infrastructure is exactly what the Powers That Be want.
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It's just as well, since with the tariffs I could no longer afford to listen to CHU.
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Isnt listening to CHU free??
Ya just turn on yor radio :)
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Isnt listening to CHU free??
Ya just turn on yor radio :)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/joke#Noun
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You can hear whats left of CHU here:
613-745-1576
Sounds like the same voice when you call this #
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You can hear whats left of CHU here:
613-745-1576
Sounds like the same voice when you call this #
They should also offer a service where you send a self-addressed stamped envelope and they send back a cassette tape of the time signals.