Of all the rabbit holes we technical types tend to fall down, perhaps the one with the most twists and turns is: time. Some of this is due to the curiously mysterious nature of time itself, but more ...

Last year was one of both celebration and uncertainty for WWV, the station adjacent to Fort Collins, Colo., that transmits automated time broadcasts on the shortwave bands. On the plus side, it marked ...

Many clocks sync with a government radio station that's been proposed to be closed. Scott Simon talks with Thomas Witherspoon of the website The SWLing Post. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: National Institute of ...

An image from the story “Why WWV and WWVH Still Matter.” The WWVH building seen at night. While I agree with most of the points raised by the author of “Why WWV and WWVH Still Matter,” as an engineer ...

Radio station WWV has stood the test of time. The federally owned and operated station, which sits amid an array of radio towers on an open, 380-acre site between Fort Collins and Wellington, is ...

During the historic April 8 total solar eclipse, a government radio station in Colorado started sending out slightly shifted "time signals" to millions of people across the globe as the moon's shadow ...