So WWV is ending service but a feature of the new rigs and firmware/software is accurate freq calibration. So is flex going to provide another accurate time base or will this great feature just go away in the next released version leaving us sol?
Posted 1 year ago
Wait!!!!!!!! All my self setting clocks, weather stations, and my Citizen Blue Angels watch all use WWV!! The world as we know it will come to an end,, so our ARRL friends won’t let it happen!!!!!! It will become like the days when your VCR clock will just flash 12:00 all the time!!!!
RSL
RSL
That's generally WWVB. I don't believe it is on the list for consideration of shutdown.
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As I first read this I thought no big deal. But wait, I have a Blue Angel watch as well !!
Oh ok, i thought it had to be WWV so I guess any accurate 10Mhz signal will work, great!
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George Molnar, KF2T, Elmer
Doesn’t even need to be 10 MHz. Any accurate source will work.
My radio has GPSO in it,,no need for WWV
Except Flex, in its wisdom, does not deliver GPS time to your shack. GPSDO is only for frequency. "It's only software?"
That is correct, The radio is not an NTP/SNTP server.
We WWV users need to speak up for the service. There are lots of us (relatively) low tech users of HF time and frequency. Write your congessfolk.
You mean the same worthless corrupted lazy congress that won't get around to Amateur Radio Parity Act (or much anything else) for two years?
I don't think you will see me holding my breath :-)
I don't think you will see me holding my breath :-)
This is a ARRL effort, they have a lot of clout!!!
LOL im laughing my off. I stopped support of ARRL log ago, there like most other agencies now a days , all they want is your money and all you get is well NOTIN..
:-)
Um, guys, given the current Solaris De Sewer Sunspot Cycle (sic), how many of you can actually receive WWV on the average day? :-)
There is this little thing called USB GPS receivers, GPSDO modules with 10 Mhz outputs, Flex and Icom rigs with 10 Mhz reference inputs, Internets with NTP (Network Time Protocol), etc, etc. [Dare I say much more modern and always readable.]
The only thing in my shack that would stop working would be the dual-zone MFJ wall clock,
um, er, wait, it uses WWV and can never receive it, so it does not keep time anyway (It's an MFJ).
Cheers,
Neal
Um, guys, given the current Solaris De Sewer Sunspot Cycle (sic), how many of you can actually receive WWV on the average day? :-)
There is this little thing called USB GPS receivers, GPSDO modules with 10 Mhz outputs, Flex and Icom rigs with 10 Mhz reference inputs, Internets with NTP (Network Time Protocol), etc, etc. [Dare I say much more modern and always readable.]
The only thing in my shack that would stop working would be the dual-zone MFJ wall clock,
um, er, wait, it uses WWV and can never receive it, so it does not keep time anyway (It's an MFJ).
Cheers,
Neal
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Our atomic clocks, etc, actually receive WWVB, the ultra low frequency station at 100 KHz, not the shortwave stations.
BTW, at my station in Indiana there is hardly ever a time that I cannot receive at least ONE of the WWV stations...usually at 5, 10, or 15 MHz.
Ken -NM9P
BTW, at my station in Indiana there is hardly ever a time that I cannot receive at least ONE of the WWV stations...usually at 5, 10, or 15 MHz.
Ken -NM9P
Ria - N2RJ, Elmer
WWVB is actually at 60khz
I have absolutely zero issues receiving WWV and WWVB here in Fort Collins regardless of the sunspot cycle or geo storms.
It is mighty DX at a whopping 10.52 miles away!
It is mighty DX at a whopping 10.52 miles away!
Ria - N2RJ, Elmer
Please sign the petition to keep WWV on the air.
If our government can spend trillions and trillions of our dollars on unnecessary wars around the world they can afford a few million for WWV!
Pass this link on to all of your friends to sign.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/maintain-funding-nist-stations-wwv-wwvh
NIST station WWV and sister stations are among the oldest radio stations in the United States, having been in continuous operation since May 1920. The station has transmitted the official US Time for nearly 100 years, and is an instrumental part in the telecommunications field, ranging from broadcasting to scientific research and education. Additionally, these stations transmit marine storm warnings from the National Weather Service, GPS satellite health reports, and specific information concerning current solar activity, and radio propagation conditions. These broadcasts are an essential resource to the worldwide communications industry. This petition requests continued funding of these stations be maintained into the 21st century and beyond to ensure future operations.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/maintain-funding-nist-stations-wwv-wwvh
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Done!
Please sign the petition to keep WWV on the air.
If our government can spend trillions and trillions of our dollars on unnecessary wars around the world they can afford a few million for WWV!
Pass this link on to all of your friends to sign.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/maintain-funding-nist-stations-wwv-wwvh
NIST station WWV and sister stations are among the oldest radio stations in the United States, having been in continuous operation since May 1920. The station has transmitted the official US Time for nearly 100 years, and is an instrumental part in the telecommunications field, ranging from broadcasting to scientific research and education. Additionally, these stations transmit marine storm warnings from the National Weather Service, GPS satellite health reports, and specific information concerning current solar activity, and radio propagation conditions. These broadcasts are an essential resource to the worldwide communications industry. This petition requests continued funding of these stations be maintained into the 21st century and beyond to ensure future operations.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/maintain-funding-nist-stations-wwv-wwvh
The petition closed. It ended at 20,219 signatures.
Paul Christensen, W9AC, Elmer
