Klockit still sell Quartex atomic modules, do these not work? I had planned on buying a spare at some point....
On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 8:33 PM Terry S <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/6a7f9715-54c0-4afd-89dd-52277b962398n%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/CAOX%2BRHJSjZ%3Dg%3DyR_wZVmvqmbGsip-YsD2mOn2O3hTd2ZuTOfbw%40mail.gmail.com.
