The wristwatches and clocks that advertise accurate “atomic time” rely on the 60 kHz signal from WWVB in Boulder Colo. to synchronize them to official U.S. time. In the days of analog TV, some ...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is considering setting up a U.S. East Coast low-frequency radio station broadcasting NIST time in binary code format to complement the present NIST ...
The author is manager of National Institute of Standards and Technology radio stations WWV/WWVH/WWVB. While radio station WWVB may be familiar to readers of this publication, most people would not ...