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Shortwave radio in the news- Okla. church makes nat'l hate group list - kfor.com May 18, 2013
- End times for doomsday-linked radio network? - CNN (blog) May 16, 2013
- Police confiscate 10 motorbikes during MDC office raid - SW Radio Africa May 9, 2013
- Africa: Digital Did Not Kill the Radio Star - AllAfrica.com May 3, 2013
- Shortwave Radio Operator – Eternal Word Television Network, Inc. (Vandiver, AL) - DFW Catholic April 25, 2013
- Independent Radio Broadcasters at Peril in Taiwan - The Epoch Times April 25, 2013
- Puntland: 15 4x4s for local police and short-wave radio station - StarAfrica.com April 24, 2013
- SW Radio Africa Scoops Two Gongs At ZAA Awards - AllAfrica.com April 24, 2013
- Welcome to the 21st century: Radio Pakistan continues drive into digital age - The Express Tribune April 23, 2013
- Indiana student finds shortwave radio stardom - Southgate Amateur Radio Club April 21, 2013
- RNW Media Network
- This is a searchable archive of over 15,000 international media stories published from Oct 2003 - March 2012
- Kenya: CCK to take back unused frequencies
- Rwanda: Parliament radio goes on air
- Radiofax audio archive to mark 20 years since closure
- Swaziland to ban anti-Mswati tweets
- Web address controversy deepens after US warning
- New company building a search engine for television
- EU willing to support Portuguese on Euronews
- Kenya to ban analogue TV imports
- Christian TV Network bosses accused of massive fraud
Tag Archives: WWV
History of WWV and the NIST Time Stations
Many readers know that I’m a bit of a WWV geek, so you can imagine how happy I was when my buddy, Mike, and the Southgate ARC made me aware of this 152 page history of the NIST time station … Continue reading
Grandfather of WWV’s atomic clock
I just discovered a film produced by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) Film Unit in the 1950s explaining the principles behind the first accurate atomic clock. The clock was designed by Louis Essen and built at the National Physical Laboratory in … Continue reading
Posted in Nostalgia, Radio History, Videos
Tagged Atomic Clocks, CHU, How Atomic Clocks Work, National Physics Laboratory, NPL, WWV, WWVB
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WWVB conducting tests on air now through March 10
(Source: NIST) IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR WWVB RADIO STATION USERS Radio Station WWVB will be conducting a test of a new broadcast format from Monday, March 5th, 2012 at 5 p.m. MST through Saturday, March 10th at noon MST. During the test, … Continue reading
Don’t expect WWV to only give you the time of day
Last Monday, while taking a walk and listening to a Tecsun PL-380 in review, I tuned to WWV (10,000 kHz) at 10 minutes after the hour. I heard a full NOAA marine weather report including tropical storm activity in the … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Broadcasters, Schedules
Tagged Marine Weather, NIST, Universal Time, WWV, WWVH
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WWV to keep Geo-Alert
Great news for those of you who listen to space weather forecasts on WWV, from Fort Collins, Colorado or WWVH from Hawaii. It appears that NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center is going to continue announcing Geo-Alert products for the foreseeable … Continue reading
Posted in Broadcasters, News
Tagged NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center, WWV, WWVH
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Take the WWV survey online
The NIST is doing a comprehensive survey about WWV. If you listen to any WWV stations on shortwave, please take this survey. This will help the NIST know how/why we listen to WWV. The survey also gives you an opportunity … Continue reading
“At The Tone”–A history of WWV in audio
If shortwave radio has a pulse, it is the constant beat of the WWV and WWVH time stations. Some of the first memories I have of hearing shortwave radio are of my father tuning in WWV each Sunday morning (on … Continue reading
A Voice of WWV Goes Silent, Off The Air
I was very saddened to learn recently that Don Elliot Heald–the voice of the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) radio station, WWV–passed away Feb 19th, 2009. My earliest memories of listening to shortwave radio included hearing his voice … Continue reading