[time-nuts] NIST

[Scott McGrath]

WRT my sextant comment,   How many pilots or sailors can navigate by ‘shooting the sun/stars’.  They have become dependent on precision navigation systems.   

Which of course feeds the thinking by empty suits why do we need lighthouses, buoys, VOR’s and airway beacons because we have the ‘god box’ onboard.   Its old fashioned and uncool.

 Interestingly enough there have been enough GPS ‘outages’ that the USNO is once again requiring proficiency in celestial navigation in order to graduate food for thought there.

I was initially speaking about loss of GPS due to natural causes.   In times of international tension attacking a country by denying its ONLY source of precision time transfer would be a particularly effective tactic and you dont even have to damage the satellites themselves.   Just jam L1

As to relying on systems operated by one’s political adversaries that does not seem to be a wise option.

So once again for US’ians time to pick up the phone and put pen to paper and state while the US budget is bloated.   This particular item NEEDS to stay.   Find a vanity construction project and make it disappear instead.   And point out the technical reasons it needs to stay.


Scott


On Aug 12, 2018, at 4:49 PM, Joe Dempster <joe.dempster at gmail.com> wrote:

I hope that defunding is just a ploy and things will remain on the air.  I
am concerned this is starting to sound like 2010 when DHS/USCG took eLoran
off the air in the states.  This was one of the few things that totally
dismayed me about the Obama administration.

> On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 2:59 PM djl <djl at montana.com> wrote:
> 
> Just a word:   When budget cuts are announced, the agencies put the most
> valued "stuff" to be cut first, such as the Washington monument, etc.
> This is a recognized ploy. When the dust settles, all may be well. . .
> Don
> 
> 
>> On 2018-08-12 12:20, paul swed wrote:
>> Like all of you I have a few wwvb clocks that work pretty well here in
>> Boston.
>> Certainly have written enough wwvb stuff and created various wwvb
>> projects
>> that I will have to get back into it again.
>> I did look at the cron-verter. Have to say it has a lot of nice
>> features.
>> Unfortunately it hasn't been available for a year or so. (Getting lazy)
>> The good news is the AM modulation of wwb is very easy to create.
>> Regards
>> Paul
>> WB8TSL
>> 
>> On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 10:48 PM, Dana Whitlow <k8yumdoober at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> I fear the worst.  The line in the website simply stated something
>>> like
>>> "shutting down
>>> the transmitters in Colorado and Hawaii", which would seem to include
>>> the
>>> whole
>>> enchilada.
>>> 
>>> For the wall clocks, GPS should work well if people are willing to go
>>> to
>>> battery-
>>> backed AC power.  But not so good for wristwatches, where the
>>> expectation
>>> is to
>>> run at uW power levels.  I for one would be very irritated at having
>>> to
>>> take my watch
>>> off my wrist and put it on a charging stand every night.  So if this
>>> shutdown comes
>>> to pass, I'll be looking for an inexpensive GPS-to-WWVB converter, or
>>> at
>>> least
>>> plans for building one.
>>> 
>>> Dana
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 8:12 PM, Bob Albert via time-nuts <
>>> time-nuts at lists.febo.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> With any luck, the current administration will successfully push the
> USA
>>>> down technically.  Denying global warming, shutting off time signals,
> and
>>>> so on, is great stuff.
>>>>    On Saturday, August 11, 2018, 6:10:12 PM PDT, Bob kb8tq <
>>> kb8tq at n1k.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi
>>>> 
>>>> One would *guess* that stopping WWVB (and killing mom and pop’s
> “atomic
>>>> clocks”) would not be a reasonable thing to do.
>>>> It gets a lot of voters mad. I doubt that very many voters (percentage
>>>> wise) would notice WWV and WWVH going away ….
>>>> 
>>>> Bob
>>>> 
>>>>> On Aug 11, 2018, at 9:00 PM, jimlux <jimlux at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 8/10/18 12:45 PM, Robert LaJeunesse wrote:
>>>>>> I'd say it does get more detailed, with the $49M in cuts described
>>>> generally in groups here:
>>>>>> https://www.nist.gov/director/fy-2019-presidential-budget-
>>>> request-summary/fundamental-measurement-quantum-science-and
>>>>>> One item: "-$6.3 million supporting fundamental measurement
>>>> dissemination, including the shutdown of NIST radio stations in
> Colorado
>>>> and Hawaii"
>>>>> 
>>>>> I wonder if that's WWVB, or WWV & WWVH
>>>>> 
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