[EAS] Homeland Security Staff locked out of computers?

[Rich Parker]

That's a more likely explanation, Ira - now that you mention it, in my
experience, a lot of really weird things happen over 3 day weekends ;)

(and yes, it did say it started around 5am EST, but WWVB didn't go
down until 9am)

As for WWVx vs GPS - there have been times when GPS went 'wonky' -
perhaps WWVx as an alternate time base?)

-rp

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 12:55 PM, bdcst <bdcst at vermontel.net> wrote:
> Why would a WWVB receiver be more reliable than the constellation of GPS
> satellites?
> WWVB represents one transmitter site while GPS has many birds in the air.
> Furthermore there are day parts where the groundwave and skywave cancel each
> other making
> for unusable reception of WWVB.
>
> The story seemed to imply a security certificate had expired and was not
> replaced as it
> should have been on Monday, but it was a Federal holiday so it was
> overlooked?
>
> --Ira
>
> On 2017-02-21 16:08, Rich Parker wrote:
>>
>> Apparently WWV is scheduled to be down for a couple of days for
>> electrical maintenance - then I saw this story today:
>>
>> http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN160240
>>
>> It crossed my mind to wonder if their PIV servers used something like
>
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