Next Meeting in March - 3/23/2023
The next WWV ARC general meeting will be Thursday, March 23, 2023 at 6pm MST via Zoom.
The next WWV ARC general meeting will be Thursday, March 23, 2023 at 6pm MST via Zoom.
WW0WWV Special Event Station March 6-12: The WWV Amateur Radio Club, in Fort Collins, Colorado, will be putting the club call, WW0WWV, on the air starting March 6 at 0000 UTC through March 12, 2359 UTC, 2023. We will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of standard frequency broadcasts from station WWV in Fort Collins which started March 6, 1923
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.
If you are not a member, please consider joining our club to help support our efforts to bring awareness to WWV and spread information about the station. You can join using this link.
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.
WWV was established as a radio station on October 1, 1919. This paper will observe the upcoming 100th anniversary of that event by exploring the events leading to the founding of WWV, the various early experiments and broadcasts, its official debut as a service of the National Bureau of Standards, and its role in frequency and time dissemination over the past century.
December 10, 2022 -Fort Collins, CO
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