[Boatanchors] Received my new radio-room clocks today

[Phil]

Today the two quartz analog clocks I ordered from Amazon arrived safe 
and sound.  It didn't take me long to put fresh batterie in them.  The 
supplied batteries look like the typical cheap Chinese Zinc Carbon ones, 
I don't trust them not to leak.

Then I set them up to WWV (10MHz), one on local time and one on Zulu 
(GMT) time. That went quicker than finding two suitable wood screws, 
locating the studs in the wall, measuring and mounting them side by 
side.  They look very nice hanging on the radio-room wall, above my head 
to the left.  NOW, hopefully they'll keep good time!!  If they don't, 
well Amazon has a 30 day hassle free (I hope) return policy, I'm keeping 
the boxes etc just in case.

One thing for sure, even "Mr Magoo" (anybody remember him) should be 
able to see those nice large black numbers on the white 12" clock faces

I won't do anything to them until I'm absolutely certain they'll keep 
time, then I'll use my label maker and make labels that say "Local" and 
"GMT (England)" and put the labels right in the middle like we did in 
the military.

NOTE:  I sure miss those military clocks we had in our Comm centers.  
They were a normal "analog" clock, but with a remote battery (large dry 
cell if I recall correctly) and a pushbutton.  You'd listen to WWV, and 
press the button exactly on the hour and it'd 'zero' the second and 
minute hands.  Never seen anything like them in the civvy world, and I 
don't fully trust the so called "Atomic" clocks any longer. . .

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01GK53GGS/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1


-- 
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.