[time-nuts] WWVB Now a Monopoly
Tom Miller
tmiller at skylinenet.net
Wed Sep 26 16:55:14 UTC 2012
Class action suit anyone?
----- Original Message -----
From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quikus.com>
To: <time-nuts at febo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 12:46 PM
Subject: [time-nuts] WWVB Now a Monopoly
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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