Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 03:17:57 +0000
From: Charles Moizeau <w2sh@msn.com>
To: "k3ky@radioprism.com" <k3ky@radioprism.com>, Topband
<topband@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: OT - US Hams, WWV closure
## David does not ..get it. WWV et all is both a Time AND Freq
station. I use the 20 mhz WWV to align the TCXOs in all 4 of my yaesu
xcvrs.
I would be dead in the water without them. BTW, if you do use WWV to align
the TCXO in your xcvr, any brand, use the highest freq WWV that you can RX.
I have used the 20 mhz WWV during the daytime even though it was weak, and had
to use a 250 hz cw filter, the job can still be done correctly. If
instead you use
say the 2.5 mhz WWV.. vs the 20 mhz wwv, your error will be off by 8 X.
IE: 1 hz off at 2.5 mhz = 8 hz off at 20 mhz. I can typ align the TCXO
at 20 mhz wwv,
within a fraction of one hz. I pre-program all the wwv freqs in the memory,
cw mode, narrow filter etc, and leave the covers off. The xcvr has to be
turned on for several hours
before you can attempt to do the alignment.
## ANYBODY can sign the petition..from any country . I just signed it
minutes ago. Who cares if they have your email address ? The cost savings
they are talking about amounts to very little.
It would cost a helluva lot more to dismantle them completely. Besides
TIME and freq standards, WWV provides for a myriad of other features.
Jim VE7RF
David,
Like you I support the petition. However, I will lend my name to it because I
don't want to selfishly chicken out for all the valid reasons you note.
Heck, it was only last week that Medicare, after many years, sent me a new
card, proudly announcing how pleased they now are with the fact that cards do
not need to show a social security number. Gosh, it took what, 50 years, for
that revelation to occur to them!
Yet, I'm still asked several times a month for my SSN, and stopped in my tracks
if I don't give it.
I agree with you in that I can't understand the prevailing rush to abandon
one's privacy. It amazes me that almost 30 percent of this planet's population
actively uses Facebook.
I haven't the slightest intention of ever joining the braggarts, liars and
narcissists in the playpens where they almost daily feed, feast and upchuck .
However, my life has been worthily enriched by Google Earth, Google Translate,
and yes, out of laziness, or as you might put it, carelessness, Google Search.
I buy stuff from Amazon and use EZ-Pass on my car. I know I'm walking naked,
but so is everyone else (and don't be so sure that you aren't as well).
Take comfort, David, in the fact that naked or perhaps a bit less so, we're
both smarter than most of the dolts and dopes out there who collect all our
stuff.
73,
Charles, W2SH.
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