Sorry don't agree at all. Emergency communications when everything is down and people need help is not comparable to a transmitter that puts out the time according to an atomic clock over radio. You can always use a sundial, and knowing the time to the second is not necessary in an emergency. Tom
On Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 9:43 AM Phil Kane <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/20/2018 7:16 PM, K2bew wrote: > > > With the internet and phones that use data and or GPS satellites to > > constantly synch time more effectively than radio sygnals it does > > seem crazy to fund it. > > This is the same sort of argument that some folks in the Emergency > Management community raise - why do we need radios when we have cell > phones and the internet. That assumes that the internet and the > cell-phone infrastructure that depends on same will exist when the chips > are down. > > I remember being in the studios of a major AM radio station when the > corporate auditor told the chief engineer "this could be a very > profitable operation if we could get rid of this thing called the > transmitter". (Rest in peace, Howie....) > > I would suspect that the incremental cost of running WWV and WWVH - > which are mostly "set and forget" operations - is of the same order of > magnitude as the paper towel and toilet paper bill for that agency. > > 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane > Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 > > From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest > Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
