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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) operates radio station WWVB which broadcasts the official time of the United States. WWVB is a 60 kHz
John P. Lowe, Yingsi Liang, Oren Eliezer, Dinesh Rajan
WWVB is a broadcast station, operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, that has been broadcasting time information to radio-controlled
John P. Lowe, Matthew J. Deutch, Glenn K. Nelson, Douglas D. Sutton, William C. Yates, Peder Hansen, Oren Eliezer, Tom Jung, Stephen Morrison, Yingsi Liang, Dinesh Rajan, Sidharth Balasubramanian, Arun Ramasami, Waleed Khalil
The WWVB broadcast of the time-code signal has not undergone major changes in its communications protocol and modulation scheme since its introduction in 1963