Welcome to the WWV Amateur Radio Club and WWØWWV
May 18, 2023 - Fort Collins, CO
Welcome and thank you for your interest in the WWV Amateur Radio Club
May 18, 2023 - Fort Collins, CO
Welcome and thank you for your interest in the WWV Amateur Radio Club
The WWV ARC will once again celebrate the anniversary of WWV the weekend of September 29 - October 1, 2023. Club member stations will be on-the-air from various locations across the country and we'd like you to have a QSO with them! We'll post the operating schedule HERE starting September 28 so you know what bands and who it is you're communicating with.
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The next WWV ARC general meeting will be Thursday, September 28, 2023 at 6pm MDST via Zoom.
Our 104th WWV Anniversary Special Event Station will be discussed (starts just 12 hours after the start of the meeting!) as well as a proposed budget for 2024.
Log into the website and visit the Our Club / Meeting Info drop down menu for the Zoom info.
See you Thursday, September 28, 2023
If you are a current member, be aware that memberships are for the calendar year. We kindly ask that you renew at the following link: RENEW
If you are not a member, please consider joining our club and supporting our efforts to promote WWV, it's historic and current value to radio science, and the NIST Time and Frequency services. Please join using this link: JOIN
How does one arrive at the exact number of cycles of radiation a cesium-133 atom makes in order to define one second?
WWVH’s chief objective is to broadcast Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) — the official time for the world — throughout the Pacific region. These signals help residents, from Alaska to Australia and from California to China, coordinate, calibrate and synchronize their clocks, networks and equipment, which are vital to telecommunications, internet connections and a wide array of government and consumer services …..
Colorado radio station WWVB marks half a century as the nation's official time broadcaster on July 5. Most people aren’t even aware the station exists, but it has a rich and fascinating history. Its future is uncertain, however, as newer technologies threaten to make it obsolete.
These radio stations don’t play news, talk shows or music. But they do broadcast very, very accurate time signals.
In commemoration of its 50th anniversary of broadcasting from Fort Collins, Colorado, this paper provides a history of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) radio station WWVB. The narrative describes the evolution of the station, from its origins as a source of standard frequency, to its current role as the source of time-of-day synchronization for many millions of radio controlled clocks.
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