[Hammarlund] Re The HQ Clock

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

And when you get done with all of this, will the clock even keep correct time?
Will you actually look at it for the time? Or just take.jpg and mail them around
for bragging rights? Will you actually sit there and listen to short-wave, fill
out a log sheet and note the time from the clock, I think that was its original
purpose, at least I heard that rumor once someplace. Those were in the old days
when people could actually tell what time it was by the hand positions and those
numerals on the watch face, without having it spoken by pushing a button and
some Oriental voice speaking the time or flashing numbers on a handless watch
face with a little tiny lcd display so you can keep an eye on the Playboy
channel with your wireless Dick Tracy satellite link watch.  Just use a dead
clock with an overtorqued mainspring or frozen armature from battery acid
droppings, save the time, money and frustration (we already know you will turn
around and try to sell it to finance your retirement in six months!) and buy a
cheap Baby Ben at a yard sale for fifty cents. They do keep good time, but you
do have to exert a little daily effort to wind them up, but think of it this
way, you are not filling up the planet with dead batteries! If you are too
cheap, AKA frugal, to spring for the fifty cent clock, just tune in WWV for free
on the Hammarlund and practice setting the UTC, or is it CUT, time on the HQ
clock. Who cares if it does not work, only the French understand UTC, called
coordinated universal time, but written as universal time coordinated, and we
are not speaking to them anyhow, since they flocculated on our war plans to put
a cork in the tyrant of Iraq who oiled his roller blades with fat squeezed out
of Camels by using imported French wine presses,  just pouring their wine down
our toilets to clean the sewer lines or pep up the bacteria in our septic tanks
and seepage beds. Besides, nobody made any of these old electric clocks that
kept anything close to the correct time, the ones General Motores put in their
cars lost and gained more minutes than speeches at the Academy Award events!
Just show your grand kids one of those clocks or watches with a hour and minute
hand on them and ask them what time it is! "It's time you got a new watch
grandpa, that thing is older than time!"  My personal favorite was the very rare
Hammarlund model produced for an extremely short period of time, that had the
little pendulum powered clock with the Monkey that swung out on the banana vine
every hour and gave you a bird!     	
	
Truthfully now, does anybody 'really'
 use the HQ clocks to tell time with?	
	
Crawling back behind the couch for shelter from flying words and bird droppings
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From: Barry Hauser <barry_hauser@juno.com>
To: crgrbrts@verizon.net
Cc: hammarlund@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Hammarlund] A Hammarlund newbie says hello.
Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 12:51 AM

Hi Craig and List

That's a simplex rather than a synchronous.  They say it has 20 times the
torque, which might be good to avoid stalling -- or maybe not.