Everyone seems to think that GPS is the be-all/end-all solution for navigation and timing, but it just isn't - and redundancy is a critical infrastructure need. Perhaps NIST should pay more attention at what's transpiring with LORAN, which may be resurrected (heck, NIST even volunteered to help with the chips for eLORAN, look in your own backyard guys!) Or go hit up the Department of Transportation for a few bucks, in case the "National Timing Resilience and Security Act of 2017" ever passes - WWV/WWVH would seem to count as an alternate source of timing.
I remember finding WWV by chance when I got my first shortwave receiver as a kid, I probably still have my postcard from them up in the attic somewhere.
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Everyone seems to think that GPS is the be-all/end-all solution for navigation and timing, but it just isn't - and redundancy is a critical infrastructure need. Perhaps NIST should pay more attention at what's transpiring with LORAN, which may be resurrected (heck, NIST even volunteered to help with the chips for eLORAN, look in your own backyard guys!) Or go hit up the Department of Transportation for a few bucks, in case the "National Timing Resilience and Security Act of 2017" ever passes - WWV/WWVH would seem to count as an alternate source of timing.
I remember finding WWV by chance when I got my first shortwave receiver as a kid, I probably still have my postcard from them up in the attic somewhere.