I fear the worst. The line in the website simply stated something like "shutting down the transmitters in Colorado and Hawaii", which would seem to include the whole enchilada.
For the wall clocks, GPS should work well if people are willing to go to battery- backed AC power. But not so good for wristwatches, where the expectation is to run at uW power levels. I for one would be very irritated at having to take my watch off my wrist and put it on a charging stand every night. So if this shutdown comes to pass, I'll be looking for an inexpensive GPS-to-WWVB converter, or at least plans for building one. Dana On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 8:12 PM, Bob Albert via time-nuts < [email protected]> wrote: > With any luck, the current administration will successfully push the USA > down technically. Denying global warming, shutting off time signals, and > so on, is great stuff. > On Saturday, August 11, 2018, 6:10:12 PM PDT, Bob kb8tq <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi > > One would *guess* that stopping WWVB (and killing mom and pop’s “atomic > clocks”) would not be a reasonable thing to do. > It gets a lot of voters mad. I doubt that very many voters (percentage > wise) would notice WWV and WWVH going away …. > > Bob > > > On Aug 11, 2018, at 9:00 PM, jimlux <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 8/10/18 12:45 PM, Robert LaJeunesse wrote: > >> I'd say it does get more detailed, with the $49M in cuts described > generally in groups here: > >> https://www.nist.gov/director/fy-2019-presidential-budget- > request-summary/fundamental-measurement-quantum-science-and > >> One item: "-$6.3 million supporting fundamental measurement > dissemination, including the shutdown of NIST radio stations in Colorado > and Hawaii" > > > > I wonder if that's WWVB, or WWV & WWVH > > > > _______________________________________________ > > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/ > listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com > > and follow the instructions there. > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/ > listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/ > listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
