Re: [time-nuts] 60 KHz Receiver

2010-10-10 Thread d . seiter
The city of Sunnyvale was thinking of replacing it (the Blue Cube, etc) with car dealerships, but decided against it because only 3 dealers would fit. I was happy; who needs more car dealers? They now want to do something that won't increase traffic too much. They also just opened a bike

Re: [time-nuts] 60 KHz Receiver

2010-10-10 Thread J. Forster
Kind of sad, IMO, the way the US has squandered our space competance. FWIW, -John = The city of Sunnyvale was thinking of replacing it (the Blue Cube, etc) with car dealerships, but decided against it because only 3 dealers would fit. I was happy; who needs more car

Re: [time-nuts] Possibly OT - Any interest in a vintage HP/Dymec DY-5842 VLF receiver?

2010-10-10 Thread Paul Davis
In case anyone was wondering, the receiver has found a home with Paul, WB8TSL. He tells me he's got it receiving WWVB already. It will need a little TLC, but it was good to see its basic functionality confirmed. I've posted the scanned copy of the manual on my website at

Re: [time-nuts] 60 KHz Receiver

2010-10-10 Thread Don Latham
That's OK, the Chinese will establish a moon colony using our money and copies of our technology. Of course, it then becomes possible to deliver really large moon rocks to selected positions on the earth... who needs nuclear warheads or missiles? Excuse me, I have to go out and buy another