[Elecraft] Atomic Clocks and Aluminum Siding

[Ron Lorenz]

ya, ya

as an old Cdn AF Nav plus an astro-physicist, I'll stick with WWV!

Ron VA6RL


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Jensen" <k6dgw at foothill.net>
To: "Elecraft Reflector" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Atomic Clocks and Aluminum Siding


> > And, if anyone wants, I will send them a picture I took of two
> > identical model atomic clocks, both showing that they are "locked" 
> > and showing different times (nothing doctored in the picture, time 
> > zones the same, etc.).
> 
> Hmmm...I wonder why they call them "Atomic Clocks?"  Other than being
> made of atoms like everything else, there is nothing "atomic" about any
> of them.  All the atomic things are in Ft. Collins, Hawaii, and on GPS
> spaceships.  I think my clock (which I won at the radio club raffle)
> syncs to WWVB on 60 KHz, which I can hear on the left-coast at night,
> but not in the daytime.
> 
> I volunteer at the Blood Center, and since the FDA requires that they
> keep a series of times for each of the various blood donation steps for
> each donor, they got us three "Atomic Clocks," two Sony's and a Seiko,
> so all the times would be consistent.  My job was to hang them on the
> walls, and when they were laying together on the table, I noticed that
> they all differed from each other by as much as 10 seconds.  I took in
> my K2, and they all differed from WWV too.  So much for "atomic time,"
> my Pulsar watch does better than that.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Fred K6DGW
> Auburn CA CM98lw
> 
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