This Atomic Nixie Clock came from the concept of building a simple Nixie clock but it turned out that a WWVB receiver and decoder chip were also employed. This Atomic Nixie Clock came from the concept ...

The wristwatches and clocks that advertise accurate “atomic time” rely on the 60 kHz signal from WWVB in Boulder Colo. to synchronize them to official U.S. time. In the days of analog TV, some ...

A rubidium standard, or rubidium atomic clock, is a high accuracy frequency and time standard, usually accurate to within a few parts in 10 11. This is still several orders of magnitude less than some ...

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 ...

I have an interest in extremely low-frequency (ELF) radio — transmission frequencies below 300kHz. Of particular interest to me is WWVB, the official government time station operated by the National ...

Joe Hanson has a nice article on Wired.com about WWVB – The Most Important Radio Station You’ve Never Heard of Marks 50 Years on the Air. He writes “WWVB marks half a century as the nation’s official ...

Yes, that is not a mistake. It is 60 kiloHertz not 60 MHz or 60 GHz. There actually is wireless activity at that frequency—at least in the U.S. Specifically, the time standard station WWVB, located ...