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 ...

[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 ...

Deep in the Colorado foothills, there are two radio transmitters that control the time on millions of clocks all across North America. It’s WWVB, the NIST time signal radio station that sends the time ...

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 ...

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 ...