[time-nuts] WWVB funding cut (was: Re: NIST FY 2019 Budget Would Eliminate WWV and WWVH)

[Glenn Little WB4UIV]

President Trump better think twice before approving this budget.
Without a time reference, how will his golf courses get watered on time??

Glenn
WB4UIV

On 8/20/2018 7:17 PM, ew via time-nuts wrote:
> Cutting WWVB the public has to ask why a NIST Tme and Frequency Division has to exist. Fighting with other countries as to who has the best precise frequency source will not go well with the public when clocks, school zone lights and watches quit working.
> Remember what happened in Japan when Fukushima wiped out their LF reference
> Bert Kehren
>   
> In a message dated 8/20/2018 6:22:58 PM Eastern Standard Time, rnabioullin at gmail.com writes:
>
>   
>   On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 5:51 PM, Bob kb8tq <kb8tq at n1k.org> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Ok, if it really does include WWVB, that gets a lot of mom and pop voters angry.
>>
>> Bob
>
> Not that it'll make a diff, but:
> https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/maintain-funding-nist-stations-wwv-wwvh
> . At least there's still CHU.
>
> By the way, it shouldn't be too difficult nor costly to launch a
> private HF timing service with a format compatible with that of
> WWV/CHU (to avoid having to write decoders)---professional commercial
> and military (not amateur radio hobbyist stuff) multi-kW MF/HF
> transmitters are scrapped all the time, rather than being repurposed
> for productive use, and it need not be 24/7 (e.g., an HF timing
> service in Russia operates for part of the day). I would've done it,
> but I'm focused on microwave instead (I own a microwave transmitter
> for interstellar METI use---15 kW output at waveguide flange), and am
> relocating out of the US (to Ireland).
>
> GPS, both the space and ground segments, has better be bulletproof (or
> rather, antisatellite weapon-, NEMP-, space storm-, jamming-,
> spoofing-, and telecommand cracking-proof), and/or eLoran better be
> developed and deployed. At least nowadays there exist three
> fully-functional constellations of GNSSs of diverse political
> ownership, though non-GPS receivers are virtually nonexistent on the
> surplus market, and new ones will likely cost a number of k USD.
>
> -Ruslan
>

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