[EIDXA] How hard is it to find a clock?

Tue Nov 5 16:54:11 EST 2013

I talked to them at Dayton about it.  No dice

From: Marty Santic [mailto:marty.santic at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 3:51 PM
To: Jason Joens
Subject: Re: [EIDXA] How hard is it to find a clock?

Says it can be manually set??  Give them a call.

After manually setting, tho, can't tell if it will still sync the second
hand.

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Jason Joens <jason at kd0mnd.com> wrote:

Almost, but the MFJ clocks don't have a setting for UTC.  They can only be
set for U.S timezones and still sync themselves.

Jason

-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Marty Santic
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 3:15 PM
To: Tom Vinson
Cc: Jim Spencer; EIDXA
Subject: Re: [EIDXA] How hard is it to find a clock?

MFJ has a selection.
http://www.mfjenterprises.com/Product.php?productid=MFJ-137RC

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Tom Vinson <tnvinson1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Instead of WWV, they got the time from Stonehenge back then.  8-)
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Bob Lee <rideon2266 at aol.com> wrote:
>
> > Jim,
> >
> >
> > Did they have electricity that far back???
> >
> >
> > Bob Lee
> > W0GXA
> >
> >
> > "CW forever"
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jim Spencer <jlscr2 at yahoo.com>
> > To: Jason Joens <jason at kd0mnd.com>; EIDXA Reflector <
> eidxa at mailman.qth.net
> > >
> > Sent: Tue, Nov 5, 2013 12:36 pm
> > Subject: Re: [EIDXA] How hard is it to find a clock?
> >
> >
> > Jason,
> >
> > I keep a regular 12 hour clock in the shack to tell what time it is.
> > An analog clock is terrible for ham use like logging.  It just leads
> > to confusion.  It is much easier to just write down the numbers.
> > Unless you have some use that I don't understand, I would go digital.
My opinion is
> > bases on a lot of experience.   In my beginning, 59 years 10 months ago,
> > analog is all we could get in a clock.  I was never so happy to get
> > rid
> of
> > that and go digital.
> >
> > 73,   Jim
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jason Joens
> > Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 6:32 PM
> > To: EIDXA Reflector
> > Subject: Re: [EIDXA] How hard is it to find a clock?
> >
> > Yes, it's for the shack.  I can find digital atomic clocks that will
> > do UTC, but I can't find one with hands.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jim Spencer [mailto:jlscr at mchsi.com]
> > Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 6:28 PM
> > To: Jason Joens; EIDXA Reflector
> > Subject: Re: [EIDXA] How hard is it to find a clock?
> >
> > Jason,
> >
> > I assume this is not for ham radio!  Analog clocks are useful, IMHO.
> >
> > 73,  Jim
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jason Joens
> > Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 6:18 PM
> > To: EIDXA Reflector
> > Subject: [EIDXA] How hard is it to find a clock?
> >
> > I'm looking for an analog wall clock (with hands) that will sync
> > with the WWV and has UTC as a timezone option.  I've been looking on
> > and off for months.  I can find 2 of the 3 features I need, but I can't
find all 3.
> >
> >
> >
> > Has ANYONE seen one of these?  Have one?  Know someone whose
> > brother's
> best
> > friend's uncle's neighbor has one?
> >
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