WWV Broadcast Outages

Andrew Gallo akg1330 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 6 14:12:02 UTC 2017



On 3/6/2017 3:55 AM, Majdi S. Abbas wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 04:59:53AM -0800, Hal Murray wrote:
>> Any suggestions for gear and/or software that works with WWV (or CHU)?
>> Or general suggestions for non GPS sources of time?
> 	Hey Hal!
>
> 	In North America, WWV and CHU are pretty much it for accessible
> backups these days.  Unfortunately time and frequency distribution is a
> niche that tends to get neglected (if not actively gutted) in US
> budgets.


Agreed, but I'll share this- the recent FCC CSRIC V had a working group 
(4B) that studied the reliability of time and frequency distribution.
https://www.fcc.gov/about-fcc/advisory-committees/communications-security-reliability-and-interoperability

It may be of interest.



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