[time-nuts] WWVB Now a Monopoly

Bob Camp lists at rtty.us
Wed Sep 26 16:53:26 UTC 2012


Hi

Yup, SBIR fund the monopoly and we switch around WWVB for them for free...

That said, it's not a very hard format to work with *provided* you get the
details of what they are transmitting. There's still the "further details to
be published in the first part of 2013".

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of J. Forster
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 12:47 PM
To: time-nuts at febo.com
Subject: [time-nuts] WWVB Now a Monopoly

I just received this in reply to a query ablot the availability of
receiver designs for the new WWVB format:

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Re: WWVB Protocol Notification
From:    "John Lowe" <lowe at boulder.nist.gov>
Date:    Wed, September 26, 2012 9:13 am
To:      "jfor at quikus.com" <jfor at quikus.com>
         "Lowe, John P" <john.lowe at nist.gov>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

No sir, the government does not have a receiver design.  The design has
been created by Xtendwave under an SBIR grant.  Their design is proprietary.

Sorry,

John


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To me this reads...   If you want to use the publicly financed WWVB
service, you MUST buy the Xtendwave hardware.

This is an outrage, IMO.

YMMV

-John

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