{"id":3942,"date":"2015-12-21T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=3942"},"modified":"2015-12-21T07:36:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T11:36:51","slug":"the-empire-strikes-back-is-that-wwv-i-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/the-empire-strikes-back-is-that-wwv-i-hear\/","title":{"rendered":"The Empire Strikes Back: Is that WWV I hear?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16349\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Fullscreen-capture-12202015-40448-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Fullscreen capture 12202015 40448 AM\" width=\"650\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Fullscreen-capture-12202015-40448-AM.jpg 650w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Fullscreen-capture-12202015-40448-AM-300x136.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>With all of the S<em>tar Wars: The Force Awakens<\/em> hype going on, I remembered that, as a kid, I thought I heard WWV in a scene from\u00a0<em>The Empire Strikes Back<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I looked through some video clips of the movie online and discovered it again this morning:\u00a0I heard the WWV-like sound in the\u00a0<em>Battle Of Hoth<\/em> scene. <em>[Update: RadioGeek suggests this may actually be CHU&#8217;s date pips.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/HgY3rOOascY?t=23s\" target=\"_blank\">This video clip will start around the :23 second mark;<\/a> start listening for the metronomic tick in the background around :25 seconds and then again at :40 seconds:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HgY3rOOascY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;start=23&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I may be mistaken, but I believe that sounds like 1980s era WWV. Has anyone else noticed this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens hype going on, I remembered that, as a kid, I thought I heard WWV in a scene from\u00a0The Empire Strikes Back. I looked through some video clips of the movie online and discovered it again this morning:\u00a0I heard the WWV-like sound in the\u00a0Battle Of Hoth scene. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[508,460,3,43,304],"tags":[4551,4552,1714,68,4553,4554],"class_list":["post-3942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-2","category-funny","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-videos","tag-star-wars","tag-the-empire-strikes-back","tag-time-stations","tag-wwv","tag-wwv-star-wars","tag-wwv-the-empire-strikes-back"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-11A","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16378,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/thats-time-station-chu-in-the-empire-strikes-back\/","url_meta":{"origin":3942,"position":0},"title":"Time station CHU in The Empire Strikes Back","author":"Thomas","date":"December 21, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Earlier today, I published a post noting that I thought I heard the time station WWV in a scene of The Empire Strikes Back. SWLing Post reader, RadioGeek, quickly corrected me: that's Canadian time station CHU's data pips I'm hearing, not circa-1980s WWV. \u00a0Cool! 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If you haven't read this post, feel free to do so and listen to the embedded video\/audio clips.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/art-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"StarWars-Logo","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/StarWars-Logo.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/StarWars-Logo.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/StarWars-Logo.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/StarWars-Logo.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":31861,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/sound-designer-ben-burtt-reveals-radios-influence-in-star-wars-films\/","url_meta":{"origin":3942,"position":2},"title":"Sound Designer Ben Burtt Reveals Radio&#8217;s Influence in Star Wars films","author":"Thomas","date":"May 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Today is popularly known as\u00a0Star Wars Day\u2013\u2013and I'm reminded of one of my favorite posts, featuring Star Wars sound designer, Ben Burtt, who to my surprise, contacted me to answer a question I published here on the SWLing Post.\u00a0 Once again, here it is. 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Some of the first memories I have of hearing shortwave radio are of my father tuning in WWV each Sunday morning (on his RCA 6K3), to set his watch. Had this not\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Reviews&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Reviews","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/reviews\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/images\/WWVSM250.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9224,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/wwv-experimental-broadcasts-on-25-mhz\/","url_meta":{"origin":3942,"position":4},"title":"WWV: experimental broadcasts on 25 MHz","author":"Thomas","date":"April 8, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Want to catch WWV--the Fort Collins-based time station--on a frequency they haven't used since 1977? The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has sent out a press release stating that, as of April 4, 2014, WWV will resume broadcasting on 25 Mhz for a limited time. 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Well done, responders!\u00a0 Specifically, the photo shows the southern antennas of WWVB as I departed\u00a0the site on Thursday, August 28, 2014; for those of you who got that detail,\u00a0extra credit\u2013!\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"MysterySW-site-LT","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MysterySW-site-LT.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MysterySW-site-LT.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MysterySW-site-LT.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MysterySW-site-LT.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MysterySW-site-LT.jpg?resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}