[time-nuts] NIST

[Tom Azlin W7SUA]

Air Force started doing that with HAARP but the university managed to 
get that stopped before the key hardware was shredded. Has taken 
University of Alaska Fairbanks 4 years to get the system back to full 
power this year.

73, tom w7sua

On 8/13/2018 5:56 PM, Mitch Buchman wrote:
> And Loran was defunded, with the towers dismantled 
> (http://www.loran-history.info/port_clarence/DSC_51151.jpg 
> http://www.loran-history.info/port_clarence/port_clarence.htm) to save 
> $36M a year, only to realize that we really needed a backup to GPS. The 
> restart costs - - measured in $B. It is sad enough to decommission these 
> systems, but it is even harder to se them demolished.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 11:00 AM Mark Whittington <markwhi at gmail.com 
> <mailto:markwhi at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     It'd be nice if CSU or some other .edu / .org can pick up the
>     hardware and licenses and keep it running.
> 
>     On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 6:58 AM, Rob Seastrom <rs at seastrom.com
>     <mailto:rs at seastrom.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
>         Looks like WWV, WWVB, and WWVH are endangered species.  :(
> 
>         -r
> 
>