[time-nuts] WWVB Now a Monopoly

[J. Forster]

Better yet, it's election season. Anybody feel like researching the
management of Xtendwave and their political connections?

-John

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> Class action suit anyone?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quikus.com>
> To: <time-nuts at febo.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 12:46 PM
> 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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