• WWVB is a longwave time signal radio station near Fort Collins, Colorado and is operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)....
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    shares this site with longwave (also known as "low frequency" or LF) station WWVB, which transmits carrier and time code (no voice) at 60 kHz. NIST also operates...
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    format is very similar to that of WWVB in the United States but technically is a variant of IRIG. Similarly to WWVB or MSF the signal of JJY is used to...
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  • a WWVB Receiver-Comparator, an instrument used to calibrate oscillators with traceability to national standards. Other early products included WWVB frequency...
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    ← RJH90 RJH86 RAB99 JJY (Mt Otakadoya) RTZRT JJY (Mt Hagane) MSF ↓ WWV, WWVB ↖︎RBU, RWM BPC↗︎ ↑  HBGHBG | | | | DCF49, DCF77DCF49, DCF7 BSF BPL, BPM |...
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    power supplies. NIST uses litz wire in the time code broadcasting station WWVB. The station transmits on 60 kHz. Litz wire is used for the helix and variometer...
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    PPS Generic pulse-per-second IRIG Inter-Range Instrumentation Group WWVB LF Radio WWVB Fort Collins, Colorado 60 kHz DCF LF Radio DCF77 Mainflingen, DE 77...
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  • defines the second—NIST broadcasts time signals via longwave radio station WWVB near Fort Collins, Colorado, and shortwave radio stations WWV and WWVH, located...
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    WVBX (redirect from WWVB-FM)
    from WYSK to WWVB-FM on January 11, 2008, to go along with the new moniker "The Vibe". On August 13, 2009, the call sign was changed from WWVB-FM to WVBX...
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    different transmitters are not compatible with each other; a watch designed for WWVB only cannot receive MSF. Japan Watches can receive signals from two JJY transmitters:...
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    low frequency WWVB in Fort Collins, Colorado, is on the west coast of Kauaʻi, about 3 mi (5 km) south of Barking Sands. WWVH, WWV and WWVB are operated...
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    use a national or regional longwave digital signal; for example, station WWVB in the U.S. . The audio portions of the shortwave WWV and WWVH broadcasts...
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    signals from GPS navigation satellites, the German DCF77 signal in Europe, WWVB in the US, and others. Movements of this type may, among others, synchronize...
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    the range that transmit coded time signals to radio clocks. For example: WWVB in Colorado, United States, on 60 kHz, 70 kW ERP DCF77 in Frankfurt, Germany...
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    series Tektronix TM500 and has a digital voltmeter, a digital counter, an old WWVB frequency standard receiver with phase comparator, and function generator...
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    Okayama, D.T. (2005). "NIST Time and Frequency Radio Stations: WWV, WWVH, and WWVB" (PDF). National Institute of Standards and Technology. (Special Publication...
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    Special Publication 250-67: NIST Time and Frequency Stations: WWV, WWVH and WWVB (PDF). NIST. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 25, 2017. Retrieved...
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    Nelson et al., (2005) NIST Time and Frequency Radio Stations: WWV, WWVH, and WWVB, Boulder, Colorado: National Institute of Standards and Technology, p. 107...
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  • Commodore International John Lowe (September 2012), Enhanced WWVB Broadcast Format (PDF) WWVB Radio Controlled Clocks: Recommended Practices for Manufacturers...
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    distribution CHU distributes official time in Canada WWV and WWVH (NIST Shortwave) WWVB (NIST Longwave) Quasi-governmental time distribution systems CDMA cellphone...
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    chronometer time ball Time signal time service radio stations WWV, WWVH, & WWVB USNO personnel Rear Admiral Samuel P. Carter Lieutenant James Melville Gilliss...
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  • signal and standard-frequency stations have the reserved call signs WWV, WWVB through WWVI, WWVL, and WWVS. This grouping is derived from shortwave station...
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  • station WWVB is the only option for reliable time signals during geomagnetic storms in the Western Arctic, based on WWVB's published pattern maps. If WWVB is...
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  • Radio clock List of radio time signal stations WWV (radio station) WWVH WWVB Extended Data Services (XDS "Time-of-Day Packet") Standard frequency and...
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  • stations) K Pulse-amplitude modulation L Pulse-width modulation (e.g. as used by WWVB) M Pulse-position modulation N Unmodulated carrier (steady, single-frequency...
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  • directly derived from IRIG H are used by NIST radio stations WWV, WWVH and WWVB. For example, one of the most common formats, IRIG B122: IRIG B122 transmits...
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    Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroads. NIST time signal transmitters WWV and WWVB are near the city Poudre Valley Hospital has helped make Fort Collins into...
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  • Clock Schriever Air Force Base El Paso County, Colorado  United States WWV WWVB Larimer County, Colorado  United States Department of Defense master clock...
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  • from another source (for example, another NTP server, a DCF77 receiver, a WWVB receiver, or a GPS disciplined oscillator). This project was started by Adrian...
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  • devices became feasible for the mass market only after the output power of WWVB was increased in 1997 and 1999. JJY transmitting broadcast on the exact same...
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