Michael Black wrote:
I thought the 25MHz signal was stopped for budget reasons. So now they
can just turn it on by whim? There has to be more to this story.

Of course they need a budget for monitoring, maintenance, replacement,
electricity bill, ...

Apparently after turning it off for 37 years and probably doing no or
little maintenance, it still works. So maybe the required budget was
a little over-estimated. But you don't know those things in advance.

Of course the electricity bill alone will be in the 5-digit range,
but that should be peanuts for a government agency.