Nice! How far away from Denver are you located ? I wonder if the signal strength is an issue. And if you're a time zealot, being 2000 miles away means your time will be about 10msec late due to propagation delays. Doggone it, radio signals and fiberoptics are so annoyingly slow....
On Tuesday, November 7, 2023 at 4:29:14 PM UTC-8 Terry S wrote: > After sitting dormant for more than a year, I decided to take a 3rd look > at my Jeff Thomas WWVB clock, the one that uses the huge Z568M tubes. At > some point the WWVB clock module fell off a window ledge and would never > lock onto the radio station after that. > > I had dug into it earlier and never found a fault -- it just wouldn't > lock. But recently I bought a decent magnifier for my workbench, and today > I took it apart again. Still didn't find a definitive cause for the > failure, but under magnification, I went thru the board and re-soldered all > my connections as well as some of the factory solder joints. I wasn't at > all confident that I'd made any improvements. > > Put it all back together and within an hour, the clock had locked onto > WWVB and is working perfectly. I must've touched the right solder > joint![image: > 20231107_182327.jpg] > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/94d8d34a-59b1-4f1d-ad73-1e9745ccdca0n%40googlegroups.com.
