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60 kHz (2022)
February 27, 2022 There’s a radio station in Colorado that broadcasts the time. It’s WWVB, the station that the National Institute of Standards and Technology uses to broadcast the current time, tuned to the 60 kHz frequency.
It’s WWVB, the station that the National Institute of Standards and Technology uses to broadcast the current time, tuned to the 60 kHz frequency. 60 kHz is at a “low frequency” part of the spectrum, which means the bandwidth is just enough to broadcast a single digit of binary every second. Perhaps my imagination of American innovation is still set in the era of lunar missions and radio.
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