For those living in the continental US who, for whatever reason, don’t have access to an NTP server or a GPS device, the next best way to make sure the correct time is known is with the WWVB radio ...

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” ...

Every night, while millions of Americans are fast asleep, clocks and wristwatches across the country wake up and lock on to a radio signal beamed from the base of the Rocky Mountains. The signal ...

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 ...

Congratulations to NIST station WWVB on its 50th anniversary. The National Institute of Standards and Technology, part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, this month observed the anniversary of the ...

President Donald Trump’s administration wants to shut down U.S. government radio stations that announce official time, a service in operation since World War II. WWV and WWVB in the state of Colorado ...

The project utilizes a PIC16F628 microcontroller in order to create radio controlled clock that originates from NIST Radio Station WWVB that broadcasts on a frequency of 60kHz. The project utilizes a ...

[Photo 1 - Engineers working in the early days of WWVB. Credit: NIST] [Photo 2 - The WWVB antennae field outside of Fort Collins. Credit: NIST] Fifty years ago, the US government flipped the switch on ...

MIGDAL HAEMEK, ISRAEL and DALLAS, TX--(Marketwire - Nov 19, 2012) - TowerJazz (NASDAQ: TSEM), the global specialty foundry leader, and Xtendwave, a fabless semiconductor company focused on the ...

I have a clock radio controlled by the atomic clock and, as of Monday, it still had not changed to the daylight-saving time. Why is that? According to the Time and Frequency Division of the National ...

DALLAS, TX--(Marketwired - Apr 9, 2013) - Xtendwave, a fabless semiconductor company focused on the development of physical-layer communication technologies, today announced the company is now ...