[GreenKeys] Frequency deviations in Continental Europe including impact on electric clocks steered by frequency

[tony.podrasky]

GM OMs;

You don't need to go way back to high school days to see that.
Just come to San Diego: SDG&E is CONSTANTLY messing around with
the frequency of the power lines.

I've got an old HeathKit digital clock (the one with the gas tubes)
that's been running for 50 years non-stop, plus a binary clock.
BOTH of them are off the same amount - usually 4 seconds. I can see
the clocks from my bed. Also, one of the computers in the bedroom
sends the time out in Morse code - every 15 minutes. That computer
is sync'd to an atomic clock periodically during the day. When I'm
in bed I can see what time the clock says -vs- what the computer says.

I actually called in a service ticket one day when it was off
by 18 second. I told the person that answered the phone that it
was off by 18 AND A HALF seconds - and to tell that to the
engineers who take care of the generators. Within an hour it
was at the right time. I could watch the difference in time
change as the minutes went by.


UE,
K2EAA - TONY
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>     Back when I was in school (yes school had been invented that far
>     back) the ham radio club
>     guys noticed that WWV and the wall clock had an interesting
>     relationship. The wall clock
>     drifted during the day and between 4 and 5 pm went faster (or I
>     suppose slower) to eventually
>     match up with WWV by 5 pm. The largest deviation that I recall
>     seeing was around 30 seconds.
>
>     Bob
>

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