[CW] DO you want to see WWV go away?

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

Enough of this.

Stop please.

73
DR

On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 6:47 PM, abqcooks--- via CW <cw at mailman.qth.net>
wrote:

> I would like to see Hans go away.
> He's been a grumpy old contrarian getting his jollies by stirring the pot
> for years.
> Take up model railroading Hans.
> ------------------------------
> On Sunday, August 19, 2018 ken.d.brown <cw at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>
> Your characterization of reasons to keep WWH and WWVH as "excuses" is
> offensive. And the idea the there are multiple other sources for time and
> frequency reference in invalid for people who only have HF receivers as
> their source.
>
>
>
> On 2018-08-19 06:59, Radio KØHB wrote:
>
> Of course rig calibration in not the only use of WWV.
>
>
>
> I'm a retired blue water mariner.  In other words, a "serious" user of WWV
> over several decades.
>
>
>
> I know of no service provided by WWV that isn't readily available from
> multiple other sources (which do not consume millions of my tax dollars
> every year.)
>
>
>
> The "check propagation" excuse is particularly lame, especially for hams.
> Using WWV/WWVH you can check propagation to exactly 2 locations in the
> world, and none of them on amateur frequencies.  The NCDXF/IARU beacon
> system (https://www.ncdxf.org/beacon/beaconlocations.html) provides
> propagation beacons on 5 amateur bands and from nearly 20 locations
> worldwide on every continent.  Each beacon is transmitted at 4 power levels
> between 100mW and 100W.
>
>
>
> For those hams who have no other source of accurate time, may I suggest
> CHU, JJY, BPM, RWM, or ATA.  Like WWV, the transmit accurate time on
> multiple MF/HF frequencies, all at 10KW, none of them on my tax dollar.
>
>
>
> 73, de Hans, KØHB
> "Just a boy and his radio"™
>
>
>
> *From: *n7dc at comcast.net
> *Sent: *Sunday, August 19, 2018 5:27 PM
> *To: *sbjohnston at aol.com; CW Reflector <cw at mailman.qth.net>
> *Subject: *Re: [CW] DO you want to see WWV go away?
>
>
>
> Calibration of rigs is not the only use of WWV.  Most people use it to
> simply check the time against their clocks, even in this age of computers,
> as not everyone has one available.  It is also used to check out
> propagation.  You listen to the different freqs, and that tells you what is
> open to their particular area.
>
> N7DC at ARRL.NET
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>
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