Hello to the group. The Chronverter is now available again. US $37. Its from unusual electronics as was mentioned earlier in the thread. No matter how 2019 actually goes its a good way to keep the wwvb clocks going. Saves me from having to create the same thing. Regards Paul WB8TSL
On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 8:39 AM, jimlux <jim...@earthlink.net> wrote: > On 8/12/18 8:40 AM, Craig Kirkpatrick wrote: > >> I agree with Bob that shutting down WWVB would not go over well with the >> voters but losing WWV and WWVH will mainly be noticed only by HAMs. >> > > > WWV/WWVH also provides HF propagation forecasts, severe weather warnings > for mariners, etc., as well as being a propagation beacon. > > I don't think HF communications is completely going away - it's unique in > not requiring any infrastructure to achieve world-wide communications other > than the two endpoints of the link. > > It's probably a smaller population than radio amateurs, but there are > people who work with HF propagation on a day to day basis. For example, if > Rocketlabs ever gets their act together and launches a couple more rockets, > I'll have a spacecraft in LEO for which I intend to use WWV and WWVH as > calibration sources. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/ > listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.