Welcome to the WWV Amateur Radio Club and WWØWWV
December 6, 2023 - Fort Collins, CO
Welcome and thank you for your interest in the WWV Amateur Radio Club
December 6, 2023 - Fort Collins, CO
Welcome and thank you for your interest in the WWV Amateur Radio Club
Thanks to all the club members as well as visitors who participated in our FM Practice the past couple of weeks! April 10 we discussed using Spectrum Lab and GPSDO standards and April 17 we focused on fldigi techniques.
The next meeting for the WWV Amateur Radio Club will be held on Thursday, April 25, 2024, at 6pm MDT via Zoom. General club meetings throughout 2024 will continue to be the 4th Thursday of each month; November and December 2024 will be the 3rd Thursday due to holiday conflicts.
Description of the logging module under development.
User Permissions:
If you are a returning member from 2023, membership renewal will make you an active member through 2024. To RENEW, you must be logged in. Expired memberships can log in up until 3/31/24 to allow renewing users to follow this link: RENEW
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.
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