XPost: rec.radio.amateur.equipment   
   From: mblack@pubnix.net   
      
   On Thu, 30 Aug 2018, CQ Newsroom via rec.radio.info Admin wrote:   
      
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   > Petition Drive to Save WWV/WWVH - Sept. 15 Deadline   
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   And CQ is late, and lacking.   
      
   This "news" has been around for a few weeks, I know I kept checking CQ's   
   newspage to see if they were on the ball.   
      
   But, they perpetuate the notion that this is about WWV/WWVH, which may be   
   the least of the issue, except for radio hobbyists who feel nostalgia for   
   those time stations.   
      
   Nobody seems to explicitly mention it, except in followups, but this may   
   (since it's not mentioned by callsign) include WWVB.  That will have way   
   more fallout than WWV/WWVH, since many a consumer clock and weather   
   station and maybe other things rely on WWVB, at 60KHz, to self-set the   
   time everynight.  I have five around, plus a Casio Waveceptor watch which   
   at least is useful in other continents.  It's something created because   
   WWVB is there, but also because electronics got so cheap.  The market is a   
   relatively new thing.  If nothing else, it gives a clock one can rely on,   
   in an age when so much electronics includes a clock, and none of them   
   matching time.  Just a few years ago, NIST added a new moduclation   
   component as an attempt at improved reception on the fringe areas, I ahve   
   no idea how well that worked since I don't have a newer clock that can   
   decode the new modulation scheme.  But at that time, I think it was, NIST   
   announced that WWVB was no longer considered a frequency standard, so it   
   really exists to reset all those "atomic clocks" to the right time.  WWVB   
   is the key issue here, since all those consumers will not like having   
   "atomic clocks" that no longer keep good time.  One has to look a bit to   
   see real truth, it's not just about relaying what someone else said.   
      
      Michael   
      
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