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 ...

July 5 rings up 50 years for station WWVB(AM), Fort Collins, Colo. It was DJ-less before satellite and automation created DJ-less stations. In fact, it’s never needed a DJ. Airing at a low 60 kHz, no ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The wristwatches and clocks that advertise accurate “atomic time” rely on the 60 kHz signal from ...

[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 ...

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 ...

NIST is changing the way it broadcasts time signals that synchronize radio-controlled "atomic" clocks and watches to official US time in ways that will enable new radio-controlled timepieces to be ...

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 ...

[Chris Kuethe] shows how to scavenge what could be a pricey WWVB module from a radio controlled clock. WWVB is a special radio station in Colorado that transmits an atomic-clock-derived signal to RC ...