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In article , Dave Heil
writes: N2EY wrote: In article , Dave Heil writes: N2EY wrote: Dave Heil wrote in message ... I also like my real analog meter better than a digital simulation. My Southgate Type 7 has *two* real analog meters. Nice easy-to-read round 3-1/2 inch ones. Also Made In USA. Do you refer to it as your (get ready for it) two meter rig? Nope. That's a Heath HW-2036. Only has one meter - analog. I'm getting confoozed! Your two meter rig is a one meter rig? Affirmative. I remember the '2036 and used to own one. I spent a lot of time fiddling with those VCO coils in the thing. It belongs to a Lebanese ham in Sierra Leone now. He's probably cursing me every time he has to fiddle with those coils. Mine may need a new mike. Ironic. But my shack clock is digital. It's a Tymeter 24-hour one, made from the parts of three junkers more than 15 years ago. Those things are developing some nostalgia value these days. In some ways clock technology has gone backwards. I remember when almost all clocks ran on synchronous motors, like my Tymeter. The power co. kept track of the Hz and would keep the total number of cycles-per-year pretty dern accurate. I found that all my motor-clocks would stay in step with WWV give or take a second or to for as long as the power was on. Then came "digital quartz technology" - and no two clocks read alike. Set them all to the same time and in a few months they're all over the place. The newer computers actually seem to keep worse time than the older ones... But my Tymeter grinds on, flipping the drums. 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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(N2EY) wrote in message ...
In article , Dave Heil writes: N2EY wrote: The newer computers actually seem to keep worse time than the older ones... Not an issue. When the 'puter clock here is noticeably off time vs. WWV I simply ping NIST and let them reset it. My tax dollars at work. YMMV. http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq...-computer.html But my Tymeter grinds on, flipping the drums. . . groan . . ! 73 de Jim, N2EY w3rv |
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(Brian Kelly) wrote in message . com...
(N2EY) wrote in message ... In article , Dave Heil writes: N2EY wrote: The newer computers actually seem to keep worse time than the older ones... Not an issue. When the 'puter clock here is noticeably off time vs. WWV I simply ping NIST and let them reset it. My tax dollars at work. YMMV. http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq...-computer.html KEWL! Of course there are also clocks an watches that "listen" to WWVB and reset themselves as needed. But my Tymeter grinds on, flipping the drums. . . groan . . ! It works! The battery-operated clock above it in the pictures (you saw my shack pix, I presume) is the backup and local timekeeper. The Tymeter just keeps doing its job. Simple technology - watta concept. Every so often I tune in WWV on the '342 just for a check. Usually the Tymeter is dead on. Did I ever show ya the pix of my trip to Boulder NIST and Fort Collins? A few years back - got shots of the then-standard atomic clocks and the transmitter site. Plus me standing by the transmitter site sign. 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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