He did indeed, Nick. I feel fortunate to own a couple of them. Unfortunately the WWVB clock movement he used on this device has become unobtanium. I have one stashed away, bought at a local thrift store..... if the need arises.
On Tuesday, November 7, 2023 at 10:11:36 PM UTC-6 Nicholas Stock wrote: > Very nice Terry! I should get my one out of its slumber too....IIRC it > needs a colon resoldering... > > Jeff made some nice timepieces.... > > Nick > > On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 8:08 PM gregebert <[email protected]> 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/94d8d34a-59b1-4f1d-ad73-1e9745ccdca0n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/94d8d34a-59b1-4f1d-ad73-1e9745ccdca0n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- 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/6a7f9715-54c0-4afd-89dd-52277b962398n%40googlegroups.com.
