Dec 26, 2009: I am trying to make a 60KHz WWVB receiver. My first
attempt yesterday failed. First I make an antenna/coil out of a 5 turns
of bell wire on 1m square. Then I tuned the coil to resonate at 60KHz.
This required adding about 0.15 microfarads in parallel with the coil.
Then I made a 60KHz tuned amplifier using a PNP transistor and an LC
resonator. Viewing the output on my oscilloscope, I saw 60KHz even
with the power disconnected and my signal generator turned off.
Unfortunately, this was not WWVB reception because it was not modulated.