[Elecraft] WWV/WWVH Closure

[Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT]

One could make the same argument about CW: there are new modes that 
provide reliable communication well below the noise floor.

For that matter, HF is subject to propagation, and the internet is like 
a band that's always open -- and the data rates are higher.

Yet there is an "installed base" of "legacy operators" who love CW.

There is an installed base of devices that work wonderfully (atomic 
clocks) that will no longer keep accurate time unless they somehow hear JJY.

73 -- Lynn

P.S. no flames from CW ops -- I support your love for the mode and 
diversity in our hobby.

On 8/20/2018 8:32 AM, John Harper wrote:
> What is the justification for continued funding of WWV? Hasn't it been
> obsoleted (if that's a verb) by GPS as far as being a time and freq
> standard?