[amsat-bb] Fwd: White House wants to eliminate WWV

[Marcus Sutliff]

Hello Roy,

That is a valid question to ask when someone it telling you to act on
something.  I'm struggling to understand why it still justifies spending x
million per year.  I set my clocks from GPS.  I get propagation information
by listening for beacons, PSKReporter, Tamitha Skov,  NASA... there is an
endless list (most produced for free) so I don't understand why it is still
relevant at this cost of several millions per year. It comes across as
someone arguing to keep horse stables open in New York City when most
horses have been replaced by Fords.

Can we see a list of technical reasons it is worthy of this expense and
reasons it is not worthy of this expense?

Sincerely,
Marcus Sutliff/N5ZY


On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 6:29 PM Roy Dean <royldean at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok, what exactly is the value that WWV provides us?   I'd never even heard
> of it until this whole budget thing came up.
>
> --Roy
> K3RLD
> _______________________________________________
> Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available
> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions
> expressed
> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of
> AMSAT-NA.
> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!
> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
>