On 8/12/18 8:40 AM, Craig Kirkpatrick wrote:
I agree with Bob that shutting down WWVB would not go over well with the voters but losing WWV and WWVH will mainly be noticed only by HAMs.
WWV/WWVH also provides HF propagation forecasts, severe weather warnings for mariners, etc., as well as being a propagation beacon.
I don't think HF communications is completely going away - it's unique in not requiring any infrastructure to achieve world-wide communications other than the two endpoints of the link.
It's probably a smaller population than radio amateurs, but there are people who work with HF propagation on a day to day basis. For example, if Rocketlabs ever gets their act together and launches a couple more rockets, I'll have a spacecraft in LEO for which I intend to use WWV and WWVH as calibration sources.
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