On 12/30/2012 6:13 AM, Richard Fjeld wrote: > Mine is about 2 secs per month. Having come from the 'wind-up' era, this is > great.
I can live with 2 sec/month as long as it is easily correctable. The old "railroad" standard dating from the 19th and 20th centuries was one second per day (30 seconds per month) for "approved" mechanical watches. This was changed years ago to require a timepiece that "keeps accurate time" as operating crew members preferred "quartz" wrist-watches rather than "approved" (i.e. expensive) pocket watches. I had a Hamilton "railroad" pocket-watch from the last production run that had terrible quality control and it kept worse time than my Seiko wrist-watch. The only people who lost out on that deal were the watchmaker/jewelers who were on the "Watch Inspector" list to certify the "approved" watches on a regular basis. Now we're in the 21st century. What I would love for my office/hamshack is a stand-alone box with large (4" or so) digital readout to the second that would be pluggable to my router and auto-update every xxxx hours from the Naval Observatory or NIST time server. I tried both the WWVB-based "atomic" clocks sold by MFJ and RadShack but the WWVB signal here is not adequate to keep those clocks in sync and their "native" accuracy was abysmal. I can dream as I rebuild my office and unpack my K2 from storage...... <G> 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 >From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
