Re: listening to time signals using pc?

2017-05-20 Thread Dane Trethowan
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RE: listening to time signals using pc?

2017-05-20 Thread Peter Scanlon
: listening to time signals using pc? The simplest explanation is that a time signal allows you to calibrate your time piece manually. Let's go back in time say to when WWV first went on the air back in the late 1920's. At that time, clocks and other time pieces weren't too reliabl

Re: listening to time signals using pc?

2017-05-20 Thread Dane Trethowan
The simplest explanation is that a time signal allows you to calibrate your time piece manually. Let's go back in time say to when WWV first went on the air back in the late 1920's. At that time, clocks and other time pieces weren't too reliable and - in some cases - needed to be calibrated

Re: listening to time signals using pc?

2017-05-20 Thread Hamit Campos
What's this time signal thing anyways? What's it do exactly? On 5/14/2017 4:30 AM, Dane Trethowan wrote: There's absolutely no point listening to a time signal service such as WWV on a PC as what you hear would be delayed by the time you hear it thus setting the time by such a method would be

Re: listening to time signals using pc?

2017-05-14 Thread Dane Trethowan
There's absolutely no point listening to a time signal service such as WWV on a PC as what you hear would be delayed by the time you hear it thus setting the time by such a method would be completely inaccurate. Still the best way to set time is to tune into WWV/WWVH on a Shortwave receiver on