What Closing a Government Radio Station Would Mean for Clocks

Re:What Closing a Government Radio Station Would Mean for Cl... by yostrovs on Monday December 24, 2018 @10:58PM (#18755820)

I'm guessing it's a similar reason that church bells aren't carefully budgeted for to keep the town running. Do you use WWV?

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Re:What Closing a Government Radio Station Would Mean for Cl... by birdman3131 on Monday December 24, 2018 @11:36PM (#18755917)

I run a casio waveceptor watch. It is accurate to within half a second of what the local tv uses for broadcast time and seeing as I am involved in a live broadcast then yes i do need that accuracy weekly.

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Re:What Closing a Government Radio Station Would Mean for Cl... by tjohns on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @01:14PM (#18758477)

I use WWV (or more accurately, WWVB) to automatically set my Casio Navihawk watch, as well as my digital wall clocks.

I also rely on WWV as a beacon to make sure my HF amateur radio station is receiving properly.

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Re:What Closing a Government Radio Station Would Mean for Cl... by FlyMoreRockets on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @11:40PM (#18760560)

I picked up a USN ship's wall clock synchronized by WWV at a ham radio swap meet several years ago. Much of my day is spent in the workshop and this is the only way I keep aware of the time.

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Re:What Closing a Government Radio Station Would Mean for Cl... by AnthonBerg on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @07:43AM (#18757199)

Do you stand here and claim that people don’t use it?

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