[time-nuts] Personal time keeping...

Brooke Clarke brooke at pacific.net
Fri May 20 15:36:35 UTC 2011


Hi Lester:

Can you say more about that?
I've got a bunch of WU clocks:
http://www.prc68.com/I/SWCC2.shtml
and the one at the top of the above web page is a radio studio clock 
with the second hand.

Have Fun,

Brooke Clarke
http://www.PRC68.com


Lester Veenstra wrote:
> Well in the old days, when I worked in AM radio, the beep was generated from
> a relay across the Western Union clock.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
> Behalf Of William H. Fite
> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 6:19 PM
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Personal time keeping...
>
> I worked in a couple of stations that did this.  The time hack (at the risk
> of bursting anyone's bubble as to accuracy) was based on glancing up at the
> control room clock and pushing a button to transmit the tone, all while
> creating the impression that it came directly from WWV.
>
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> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Max Robinson
> <max at maxsmusicplace.com>wrote:
>
>    
>> Is anyone else old enough to remember when you would hear on the radio
>> "Time at the tone, 5 o'clock.  Beep."  The tone was anywhere from half a
>> second to one second long and it might have been hard to pin down if the
>> beginning or the end of the tone was 5 o'clock but it was probably within
>>      
> a
>    
>> couple of seconds accuracy which was plenty good for setting your watch or
>> the kitchen clock.  Why don't you hear that now a days?  Digital TV has
>> latency which is dependant on the equipment used by the cable or satellite
>> company and is somewhat variable between receiver manufacturers.  The
>> engineer of our local public radio station told me that digital radio has
>>      
> 7
>    
>> seconds delay.  When I asked the station manager if there were any plans
>>      
> to
>    
>> run studio time 7 seconds ahead of real time so listeners would get
>>      
> accurate
>    
>> time he just frowned.
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> Max.  K 4 O D S.
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>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Rooke"<sar10538 at gmail.com>
>> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement"<
>> time-nuts at febo.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 10:45 AM
>> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Personal time keeping...
>>
>>
>>
>> A number of years back the London Science Museum used to sell an Einstein
>>      
>>> Relative Time Watch that just had the hours hand and was marked around
>>>        
> the
>    
>>> dial, 1'ish, 2'ish, 3'ish, etc. I bought my ex one, don't know if she
>>> still
>>> has it. It's not the same as the new ones I have seen via Googling as I
>>> think this was much more fun.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>> On 20 May 2011 02:55, Burt I. Weiner<biwa at att.net>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Chuck,
>>>        
>>>> In another post I spoke about spending a few days with a fellow from
>>>> DATUM.
>>>>   A lot of our idle chit-chat was about accuracy in timing and GPS
>>>> vs.other
>>>> off-air standards and propagation.  He told me about his background in
>>>> the
>>>> military and precision measurements and about a watch he used to have
>>>> that
>>>> displayed in GPS seconds - fascinating stuffs.  I noticed that he wasn't
>>>> wearing a watch and I commented on that.  He told me that he'd spent a
>>>> good
>>>> part of his life knowing precisely what time it was and still does the
>>>> same
>>>> thing in his work at DATUM.  He then went on to comment that he was
>>>>          
> tired
>    
>>>> of
>>>> knowing exactly what time it was and he personally got sick of knowing
>>>> the
>>>> exact time.  He also said that looking at the kitchen clock once a day
>>>> was
>>>> close enough for him, that it reduced the stress on him.
>>>>
>>>> Burt
>>>>
>>>> At 07:43 AM 5/19/2011, time-nuts-request at febo.com wrote
>>>>
>>>> My personal preference is for highly jeweled totally mechanical
>>>>          
>>>>> automatic winding  wristwatches.  My hobby compels me to have
>>>>> high accuracy time and frequency around, but my life just
>>>>> doesn't run with that kind of precision.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Chuck Harris
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>> Burt I. Weiner Associates
>>>> Broadcast Technical Services
>>>> Glendale, California  U.S.A.
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>>>> www.biwa.cc
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