{"id":67496,"date":"2026-10-29T09:32:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T13:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=67496"},"modified":"2026-10-29T09:32:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T13:32:01","slug":"video-short-scientific-american-tours-wwv-fort-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/video-short-scientific-american-tours-wwv-fort-collins\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Short: Scientific American Tours WWV, Fort Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13885\" style=\"width: 1035px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/WWV-Main-Building.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13885\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13885\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/WWV-Main-Building.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1025\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/WWV-Main-Building.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/WWV-Main-Building-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/WWV-Main-Building-1024x463.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WWV&#8217;s transmitter building in Fort Collins, Colorado (2014)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor David Iurescia, who shares this YouTube short from Scientific American. So great to see our good friend, <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/matthew-deutch\/\">Matt Deutch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The radio station that broadcasts time\" width=\"528\" height=\"938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XWaMJUfXc1M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/XWaMJUfXc1M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor David Iurescia, who shares this YouTube short from Scientific American. So great to see our good friend, Matt Deutch: Click here to view on YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,43,9589,304],"tags":[3943,11202,68],"class_list":["post-67496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-utility","category-videos","tag-matthew-deutch","tag-scientific-american","tag-wwv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-hyE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13874,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/hang-on-a-second-seriously\/","url_meta":{"origin":67496,"position":0},"title":"Hang on a second&#8230;seriously","author":"Thomas","date":"June 30, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Tonight, for the first time in three years, we will experience a leap second. 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