CHU

General Information

CHU is a radio station in Canada that continuously broadcasts time of day information. It is operated by the National Research Council of Canada.

Usage:

§ Time information broadcasts.

Mode Details

 

Item

Value

Standard

Modulation

FSK

 

Number of tones

2

 

Shift (Hz)

200

 

Bandwidth (Hz)

500

 

Symbol rate (Bd)

500

 

Coding

BCD

Demodulator Settings

Demodulator

FSK 2,3,4 discr.

 

Symbol rate (Bd)

300

 

SR tolerance (Bd)

5

 

Modulation order

2

 

Shift (Hz)

200

 

Shift tolerance (Hz)

5

 

Modem type

Synchronous

 

Min. burst length (s)

0.200

 

Max. burst length (s)

0.700

 

Min. pause length (s)

0.150

Features

Demodulation

yes

 

Recognition

yes

 

Decoding

yes

 

Automatic Polarity Adjustment

no

 

Combination with other modems (modem list)

yes

Tuning

The tuning frequency is the center of the signal

Table 55: CHU

Figure 20: CHU Spectrogram