[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 ...

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 advantage of a radio-controlled clock that receives the time signal from WWVB is that you never have to set it again. Whether it’s a little digital job on your desk, or some big analog wall clock ...

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) broadcasts atomic clock time signals from Fort Collins, Colorado on various frequencies. The WWVB signal on 60 kHz blasts out 70,000 watts ...

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 ...

How many times a day does someone pose that question? Residents of Fort Collins may not know just how close we are to a precise answer. Those blinking red lights to the north of town indicate the ...