Bill wrote:
[BPSK] leaves all the real Timenut type people, actually using the system for its intended purpose, out in the cold
To be fair to NIST, there really aren't many people using WWVB as a source of laboratory-grade timing signals. As others have pointed out, it isn't accurate enough for true time nut performance, and to get all of what it *is* capable of requires heroic efforts. So in truth, the real market for WWVB is not time nuts -- it is people who want to know the time of day to within a second (the "atomic" clock crowd). And there are LOTS of them. So the change is likely to provide a modest upgrade path for the vast majority of actual users, at the expense of a few die-hards (hobbyists, mostly) who are trying to get more out of an LF timing source than it is really capable of delivering.
From a public policy standpoint it seems to make good sense, however much it may offend time nuts' sensibilities.
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