WWV - as long as we are becoming HAMs...

[RennMan]

... we may as well see where the time standard comes from.

Here's the website:

http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/stations/wwv.html

and now that we know a little bit about how and why it is broadcast, I fully expect Clint to ask us about how long the half-wave antenna would be, for a specific frequency...

No, I haven't figured it out yet, and I'm not sure I want to!