[W8MWA] Your atomic clock won't work anymore

[Stephen DeVience]

Someone has already edited the wikipedia page and removed that statement.
>From other articles, it sounds like the statement from NIST is ambiguous:
"$6.3 million supporting fundamental measurement dissemination, including
the shutdown of NIST radio stations in Colorado and Hawaii"

For their final transmission they can play the song from Chicago: "Does
anybody really know what time it is, Does anybody really care?"

-Stephen
N8URE

On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 8:51 AM Ryan Hansen <ryan.axiom at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jan,
>
> Though I don’t think defunding this service is a good decision, if
> Wikipedia is to be believed:
>
> "WWVB, the 60 kHz station colocated with WWV that provides time for
> "atomic clocks," is not proposed for defunding."
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWV_(radio_station)
>
> —
> Ryan, NI5S
>
> On Aug 24, 2018, at 8:41 AM, Jan Ditzian <ditzian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Here is a link to a petition to stop the decision to defund radio
> transmissions of time from WWV and WWVH.  Aside from the loss to hams of
> accurate frequency markers, it seems to me that consumer atomic clocks that
> set themselves automatically from radio transmissions will also stop being
> accurate, if this measure becomes law.  If I am wrong about this latter
> argument, please let me know.
>
>
> https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/maintain-funding-nist-stations-wwv-wwvh
>
> Jan, KX2A
>
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