Thanks for this reply, Richard.
But, I still have failed to find the
administrative justification for shutting down these station(s) in the budget..
I looked through various analyses of the proposed
NIST budget, but I could not find the
justification of the cuts in the administration's proposed NIST budget.
In other words, why are the stations proposed for
elimination? It is required that borh NIST and
also the office of budget management at the White
House must explain the reason for the cuts in the proposed budget.
Further, if anybody wishes to file any effective
complaints or comment, it will be vital for those
comments and/or complaints to provide effective
counterpoint to whatever the administration says
is the reason for the proposed elimination. I
still have not found such reasoning in the budget
document, and nobody is talking about it on these
various SWL Fest threads. Thus, I highly
recommend that nobody send any comments and/or
complaints in until somebody on this thread
points out the precise reasoning in the budget
behind the proposal to shut down the station(s).
Without knowing that, any input from us to the
officials listed here would be entirely ineffective.
So, I am waiting. What is the reasoning in the
budget proposal to shut down the stations? We
need somebody to describe this in detail,
hopefully with a link going to the complete
justification language in the budget proposal..
George Zeller
Cleveland, OH
At 01:22 PM 8/11/2018, Richard Cuff wrote:
The way the announcement was worded, in simply
read "...-$6.3 million supporting fundamental
measurement dissemination, including the
shutdown of NIST radio stations in Colorado and
Hawaii" As far as I know, the only radio
stations NIST has are WWV, WWVH, and WWVB. One
would think that every "atomic watch" maker
would be up in arms in WWVB were to be shut
down. As Ed C. suggests, faxes & letters to NIST
and Congress would be recommended. Here are some
contacts. Director & Undersecretary of Commerce
for Standards and Technology: Walter Copan
E-mail [email protected] Phone (301)
975-2300 Postal 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg,
MD 20899 Fax, Public Affairs Office: (301)
926-1630 The NIST radio station master is John
Lowe:
https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/time-services
Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA On Fri, Aug 10,
2018 at 8:55 PM, George Zeller
<[email protected]> wrote: > Tom & Kim, I took a
look at the budget proposal for NIST that Kim
tweeted > around. > > I could not find a direct
mention of either WWV or WWVH. It might be a
quirk > in my own computer. > > But, I have a
major question. Do the proposed cuts include
WWVB? If so, the > proposal is insane. > >
George Zeller > Cleveland, OH > > At 06:24 PM
8/10/2018, Tom Sundstrom wrote: > > A Twitter
posting by Kim Elliott includes... > > "$6.3
million supporting fundamental measurement
dissemination, including > the shutdown of NIST
radio stations in Colorado and Hawaii" > > ...
in the FY2019 budget proposal. > >
https://www.nist.gov/director/fy-2019-presidential-budget-request-summary/fundamental-measurement-quantum-science-and
> > A 1958 verification
card:Ã http://w2xq.com/qsl-usa-md-wwv.html >
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