Hi Phil,
The 1955 WWV site you remember was in Greenbelt, NASA's Visitor Center is now in that location. But that wasn't the oldest WWV site. The original 1919 site was at the Bureau of Standards in Washington D.C. WWV moved to College Park MD in 1931 then to Beltsville in 1932. There was a major fire in the Beltsville WWV building on 1941, which forced a temporary move to a nearby building. WWV moved to a new site in Greenbelt i n 1943 where they stayed until they moved to Fort Collins in 1966. 73 Frank W3LPL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Kane" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, May 6, 2019 6:23:24 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [OT Elecraft] WWV 100th Anniversary Event On May 6, 2019, at 00:11, John Marvin <[email protected]> wrote: > Just a quick note, WWV is celebrating 100 years on the air this > October, and NCARC (I'm a member) is sponsoring an event with NIST on > the WWV property from 9/28 - 10/2. More information can be found at > http://wwv100.com. This sounds yummy. When I was an intern (student trainee during college vacations) at the Naval Research Laboratory in 1955 I was treated to a tour of the *old* WWV installation in Beltsville, MD before it moved to Fort Collins. A fascinating place. Open-wire feed lines, RF all over the place! As an OT aside - I just noticed today that the time on my Verizon cell-phone (supposedly slaved to GPS time) is two whole minutes ahead of WWV and Naval Observatory time services checked both by internet connection and OTA. Accurate time is needed for the RTC In my K2 and for certain digital modes. Anyone know why? "Customer Service" at Verizon doesn't have a clue. 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
