WWVB is solidly supported by the guvmnt.  No worries about that signal.  I 
thought it was 60 KHz.  In any event you can pick it up almost everywhere.  You 
should not have to wait more than a half hour for a clock to lock on.  You 
might have a bad clock or something in the environment making the signal a bit 
weaker.

I was doing a solar panel tracker a few years ago and was wanting to use this 
signal to get RTC info.  Turns out the only receiver chip manufacturer had 
stopped making the chip.  Reason was, an antenna, capacitor and perhaps a 
transistor is all you need to feed the raw RF directly into a MCU chip.  It is 
pretty strong.  

From: Ken Hohhof 
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2020 3:13 PM
To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' 
Subject: [AFMUG] WWV

I am trying to get a cheap “atomic” clock to synchronize, not sure if I have to 
wait until night time propagation or what, it is only showing 1 signal bar.

 

But I did a couple Google searches, and was the federal government actually 
planning about a year ago to defund WWV and take it off the air?  Seriously?  
And that didn’t happen, right, WWVB is still transmitting?

 

I was a little surprised to realize there is just the one transmitter site in 
Colorado, and that WWVB transmits on such a low frequency (50 kHz) and sends 1 
bit per second of data.



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