
All of the wall clocks in my house use WWVB. It's not just a Ham thing.... I wouldn't be surprised if many thousands of consumer/industrial devices use WWV/B for timing; including industrial chart recorders. -----Original Message----- From: arrl-odv [mailto:arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org] On Behalf Of Tom Frenaye Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2018 7:53 AM To: arrl-odv <arrl-odv@arrl.org> Subject: [arrl-odv:27473] Re: Potential WWV and WWVH Shutdown At 01:13 AM 8/15/2018, Richard J. Norton wrote:
Is it in the interests of Amateur Radio and the ARRL that WWV and WWVH continue to broadcast time and propagation information?
Do we have any idea what it actually costs NIST (you and me) to operate WWV/WWVH? Would a private group be able to fund and operate it (and get permission to use the specified frequencies?) Any idea who actually uses WWV beside hams? (who can we get to join us in any request to keep WWV going?) -- Tom PS: Back to ARRL history, the OO program started in 1926 consisted of Official Wavelength Stations (OWLs). See January 1926 QST. http://p1k.arrl.org/pubs_archive/8243 Their job was to provide signals on specific wavelengths so other hams could use their wavemeters to tune their transmitters to transmit on specific frequencies. This was the time period when QST articles on how to use crystal control were being published... :-) ===== e-mail: k1ki@arrl.org ARRL New England Division Director http://www.arrl.org/ Tom Frenaye, K1KI, P O Box J, West Suffield CT 06093 Phone: 860-668-5444 _______________________________________________ arrl-odv mailing list arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org https://reflector.arrl.org/mailman/listinfo/arrl-odv