[Boatanchors] Speaking of cheap stuff (was harbor freight and soldering guns)

[manualman at juno.com]

That probably was the Geochron wall clock. It's still around and now
selling for $1795 with standard frame:
http://www.mapshop.com/Geochron.htm

Here's a cool wall clock that's on sale:
https://www.princetonwatches.com/shop/QXA538KLH.asp

I received a free desk digital readout clock back in the 90's from
Azimuth Instruments (or something like that). They sold a indoor
temp/outdoor temp/clock/wind speed indicator. They use to have a booth
back in the 90's at Dayton and always had at least two girls dressed only
in swim wear handing out brocedures and taking pictures with the masses.
The clock has two readouts; one for your local time and the other for any
other part of the world's time zones. There is a sliding switch below the
readouts where you can slide the pointer to any one of 25 different
cities around the world. The clock can be set in 12 or 24 hour format.
The clock still works fine today. It's powered by two AAA batteries. Has
a momentary dial light and I think it even has an alarm function.

Pete, wa2cwa

On Sun, 13 Sep 2015 18:18:51 -0500 Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo at gmail.com>
writes:
> I guess I have some field around me that causes modern manufactured
> things to break.   I'll figure something out.  Thanks to everyone 
> who
> sent suggestions.  It has been an interesting conversation, shack
> clocks.  Remember that thing you could get that was a map of the 
> world
> in a frame and it had all the times of big cities in little windows
> and sold for some crazy high price like $700?  This was back around
> 1970.   I figured that had to be for the rich XYL who didn't know 
> what
> to get for her OM for Christmas.   Maybe new hams don't bother with
> shack clocks.   I am just programmed old style to have two for 
> local
> and Zulu, along with paper, a dummy load, headphones (which I 
> almost
> never use) and pens.   I have given up on having a callbook since 
> they
> don't print them now, and a printed log book.  I use my card file
> instead.  My shack is a computer-free zone.
> 
> 73
> 
> Rob
> K5UJ
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