[Boatanchors] OT: Guess I need a new clock for the shack, the old one's 'obsolete' :(

[Phil]

Well, for quite some time now the shack clock has 'synced' exactly 12 
hours fast.  That is, 8:00AM shows as 8:00PM.  No big deal (I have it 
set for 12:00 display) except that half a day each day the date and day 
display also is bonkers.  Also, the daylight savings time feature 
doesn't display (I can manually set it, but when it syncs it goes away). . .

At first I thought that the 60kHz receiver may have died and it's not 
syncing each night, but that's NOT the case.  It seems that NIST changed 
their format just enough (adding phase modulation as well as Amplitude 
modulation) to make many, if not all older 'atomic' clocks obsolete.  
They even say so on their web site.

It's a very nice large clock,  displaying room temperature, day, date 
and time.  Oh well, I only paid a little over $20 for it many years ago 
(maybe 15 years?).  Guess I got my service out of it. After all, it's 
only money (which I don't have a lot of, LOL).

-- 
73 de Phil, KO6BB.
Specializing in DXing NDBs (Longwave Beacons).

Location:  "The Beaconeer's Lair".
Merced, Central California, 37,18,37N  120,30,6W CM97rh
KO6BB/B beacon, ~20W to a Ringo Vertical 24/7 on 28.290 MHz.
http://www.qsl.net/ko6bb/

HF/LF RADIOS:
HOMEBREW: 7 Tube+Rect 1v3 Regenerative RX for LF (built 2015)
Icom:     R-75, Cascaded 250/125Hz CW-Filt, Panadapter. (~2009)
Icom:     IC-7200 Xceiver, DSP IF & filters (~2015).
Kenwood:  TS-450SAT Xceiver, cascaded 250/125Hz Inrad filters.
SDR:      Softrock Ensemble II LF (built from a kit 2015).

ACC:   HOMEBREW  LF-MF Pre-Amp, MFJ-993B HF Auto-Tuner.
        HOMEBREW  4 Port Antenna Multicoupler, Feeds 4 RX's.
AF Filters:  Timewave  DSP-599zx & HOMEBREW  8 Hz Filter.

ANTENNAS: 88 foot Long Ladder-line fed dipole, 35 feet AGL for MW/SW.
           Active Mini-Whip, 36 Feet AGL for LF/MW/SW.
           37 foot "Low Noise Vertical", 11 feet AGL for LF/MW/SW.
           Cushcraft AR-10 Ringo at 14 feet AGL for 10M beacon.