Greg, I'm in western Wisconsin, so not terribly far. I'm probably only seeing a 5 msec delay, I can live with that.
On Tuesday, November 7, 2023 at 10:08:34 PM UTC-6 gregebert wrote: > 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/2e355686-7a4c-4a2d-b29c-e248ca0968ccn%40googlegroups.com.
