[GreenKeys] Western-Union time service

[amourdutigre]

Hi...

I recently saw a Western-Union clock on e-pay, and noticed that it had two terminal screws on the back. I mentioned this to an old friend of mine that thought that he had heard in his youth about Western Union offices all had a special "wire" that was connected to a central office that every hour on the hour would send a signal to those clocks and cause the minute hand to automatically set to the 12:00 position. Someone else said that major businesses and public entities could also subscribe to this service so that there would be a standardized time.

Has anyone heard of this? I would be interested in finding out. Now the idea...if a bunch of folk could find such clocks, wouldn't it be cool to have a web site that would send a signal every hour on the hour, and be able to hook your computer to some interface that would mimic that clock signal? Now that would be really neat for the QTH...

Best and 73,

Joe KB0TXC
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