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Buried on page 25 of the 2019 budget proposal for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), under the heading "Fundamental Measurement, Quantum Science, and Measurement Dissemination", there's a short entry that has caused plenty of debate and even a fair deal of anger among those in the amateur radio scene:
NIST will discontinue the dissemination of the U.S. time and frequency via the NIST radio stations in Hawaii and Ft. Collins, CO. These radio stations transmit signals that are used to synchronize consumer electronic products like wall clocks, clock radios, and wristwatches, and may be used in other applications like appliances, cameras, and irrigation controllers.
The NIST stations in Hawaii and Colorado are the home of WWV, WWVH, and WWVB. The oldest of these stations, WWV, has been broadcasting in some form or another since 1920; making it the longest continually operating radio station in the United States. Yet in order to save approximately $6.3 million, these time and frequency standard stations are potentially on the chopping block.
Source: https://hackaday.com/2018/08/20/what-will-you-do-if-wwvb-goes-silent/
(Score: 3, Interesting) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday August 27 2018, @02:46PM
3. Agency proposes cuts to extremely useful services for millions.
4. Politicans calculate it will not cost them votes nor financial support from important industrial complex backers, and may in fact gain votes with the "we don't care about science only our jerbs" crowd. (None of whom are employed by the companies/sectors involved). Politicians say "fuck it."
5. Agency gets to decide if it really needs the service and what else it could sacrifice instead and then go begging hat-in-hand to restore lesser funding.
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