[Elecraft] OT: WWV/WWVH Closure
K2bew
tombewick at gmail.com
Tue Aug 21 12:05:15 EDT 2018
Sorry don't agree at all. Emergency communications when everything is down
and people need help is not comparable to a transmitter that puts out the
time according to an atomic clock over radio. You can always use a sundial,
and knowing the time to the second is not necessary in an emergency.
Tom
On Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 9:43 AM Phil Kane <k2asp at kanafi.org> wrote:
> On 8/20/2018 7:16 PM, K2bew wrote:
>
> > With the internet and phones that use data and or GPS satellites to
> > constantly synch time more effectively than radio sygnals it does
> > seem crazy to fund it.
>
> This is the same sort of argument that some folks in the Emergency
> Management community raise - why do we need radios when we have cell
> phones and the internet. That assumes that the internet and the
> cell-phone infrastructure that depends on same will exist when the chips
> are down.
>
> I remember being in the studios of a major AM radio station when the
> corporate auditor told the chief engineer "this could be a very
> profitable operation if we could get rid of this thing called the
> transmitter". (Rest in peace, Howie....)
>
> I would suspect that the incremental cost of running WWV and WWVH -
> which are mostly "set and forget" operations - is of the same order of
> magnitude as the paper towel and toilet paper bill for that agency.
>
> 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
> Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402
>
> From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
> Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon
>
More information about the Elecraft
mailing list