[GreenKeys] Western Union Time

[Teletypeparts]

Forgot to mention that the pulse sent was on WU circuits, mostly open wire or cable and of course the clocks were all on one or two circuits.  There was one a Smith and Wesson in Springfield, MA that I worked on in the lobby, but no tour or free samples were passed out to me.  LOL.  

Wayne






-----Original Message-----
From: Teletypeparts <teletypeparts at aol.com>
To: larryradio <larryradio at att.net>; greenkeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: lombardi <lombardi at nist.gov>
Sent: Tue, Mar 1, 2011 11:47 am
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Western Union Time



ar,
No help on the time set, but I have worked on many of the clocks while at WU.  I 
ad a small one here, no second hand, that was beginning to get rusty in my 
asement, so sold it on ebay.  My first ebay sale.  Buyer was very pleased with 
t.  
The pulse sent by WU was pretty strong.  I think it was 300 MA, but not 
ositive.  I remember that we did not want to have our hands in the clock close 
o the pulse time.  You can fine tune them with the adjustment on the pendulum.  
lso it helps to have the tick tock have equal time or sound equal when you 
evel them on the wall and then screw down so they dont move.  Then you can fine 
une the pendulum.  
Have fun,
Wayne



----Original Message-----
rom: Larry Tighe <larryradio at att.net>
o: greenkeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
c: lombardi <lombardi at nist.gov>
ent: Tue, Mar 1, 2011 10:50 am
ubject: [GreenKeys] Western Union Time

i Folks,
lightly "off topic" but very much Western Union (the folks who had all 
ose teletypes) I have a collection of WU clocks.  They were made by the 
lf Winding Clock Co. of NYC.  WU sent a pulse every hour to a solenoid in 
e clock that pulled the minute and second hand straight up.
 wrote to the NIST who opereate WWV et.al. from their time site... 
tp://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Eastern/d/-5/java  ....asking if there is a 
y to use their web site to get that hourly correction pulse for my clocks. 
ke Lombardi wrote back that they don't have the 1 KHz correction pulse on 
e internet site that is on WWV et. al. on the hour.
 know some of the nerds on this list talked about having their TTY machines 
int time...so my question is, has anyone the ability to extract a pulse 
om a computer to sense the hourly zeros at the above site?
TW, Mike (at NIST) asked if I know anything about "radio controlled 
ocks"...which I've never heard of...anyone here that can comment on these?
hanks,
r
JIA
w.antiquetelephone.com 
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