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Thanks, Todd, for this post. Sorry for the delay in posting this but I spent most of yesterday getting a new GNSS receiver to talk over an Ethernet connection.The Venn diagram of those interested in both navigation and shortwave (SW) radio has a fair bit of overlap I would surmise. My first SW radio (back when I was in high school) was a 2-tube regenerative with which I logged around 100 countries and still have many of the verification cards and letters (QSLs) for proof. Radio time pips have a place in society besides their use for precise time transfer as has already been mentioned. The BBC has used the pips as part of the theme music for some of their news programs including the BBC World News. Less well known would be the sound piece that someone made based on my recording of CHU:
https://citiesandmemory.com/shortwave
The first recording on that page ("Leap second") is mine and the second ("Ottawa shortwave") is the remixed and reimagined recording. Click on "Info" in the table on the page to get more information about the recordings. I've made cleaner recordings of CHU but this one has the noise/static often associated with shortwave reception.