[time-nuts] WWVB Now a Monopoly

[J. Forster]

I just received this in reply to a query ablot the availability of
receiver designs for the new WWVB format:

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Re: WWVB Protocol Notification
From:    "John Lowe" <lowe at boulder.nist.gov>
Date:    Wed, September 26, 2012 9:13 am
To:      "jfor at quikus.com" <jfor at quikus.com>
         "Lowe, John P" <john.lowe at nist.gov>
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No sir, the government does not have a receiver design.  The design has
been created by Xtendwave under an SBIR grant.  Their design is proprietary.

Sorry,

John


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To me this reads...   If you want to use the publicly financed WWVB
service, you MUST buy the Xtendwave hardware.

This is an outrage, IMO.

YMMV

-John

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