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

[Bob Groh]

It is aggravating - not just because you didn't get your money out of it
but because it still works!!  Sort of.  Oh, well.

Bob, WA2CKY

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Phil <ko6bb1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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).
>
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> 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.
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