Welcome to the WWV Amateur Radio Club and WWØWWV
edited November 18, 2024 - Fort Collins, CO
edited November 18, 2024 - Fort Collins, CO
The next meeting for the WWV Amateur Radio Club will be held on Thursday, May 22, 2025, at 6pm MDST via Zoom.
We'll be discussing a number of topics including the HamSCI Meteor Scatter QSO Party, the recent QRZ discussion on a 20m WWV antenna, the NIST announcement of the F4 clock, YOTA-America visiting WWV in June, HamCon Colorado 2025, and of course the Dayton Hamvention.
The Zoom meetings will be open at 5:30pm MDST for shooting the breeze for about 30 minutes until our meeting STARTS OFFICIALLY AT 6PM MDST.
Description of the logging module under development.
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updated December 19, 2024:
WWV ARC members who would like to be proactive and register their membership for 2025, please click on this link to go to the Stripe payment page: RENEW. If you'd like to renew by mail, send your check to WWV ARC, PO Box 273226, Fort Collins, CO 80527
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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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