I have two of those beauties NIB (except for the razor slit where the manual was removed) and one of the antennas, but no down convertor. TVB had enough data on his site that it didn't look likely that it could be reused as any kind of slave display without rewriting EPROM code.
There are people on this list who find that exercise trivial, but I'm not one of them. But I can't bear to throw anything out that was once useful. I'm willing to give it away to a good home, though. If there is hope for using that fine receiver, I'd love to hear about it. Normally, I might prioritize such a project into the sub-basement level, but there's a big Veit truck parked near a man-hole one house away from me. A fault in a 30" storm sewer drain line into our pond caused a sinkhole that threatened to swallow the neighbor's riding mower. So the City hired Veit to fix it by inserting a thermosetting plastic liner into the 150 foot section of pipe that was failing. Can't have people falling into sink holes. Seemed simple enough, but they couldn't get the pond end of the pipe dry, so they built a plywood coffer dam and started pumping it out. They started the thermoset process at about 4 PM, with rain forecast for tomorrow. The pond pump and the hot water truck were still running at 8:30, so I asked politely if we were going to get any sleep tonight. Well, he says, we're recycling 180 F water through the boiler truck and we've reached 180. Now we have to hold for two hours and then cool it down. We ought to be out of here by 1 AM. At 10 PM, the house has a strengthening smell of thermosetting plastic as the wind dies, and the noise is still semi-continuous. I'm trying to attain an altered state where I don't care, and going through my favorite mailing list. Forgive me for rambling, but I thought you'd like a diversion from the usual fare. Either that, or I've reached a state where I think someone could be interested. The plastic smell is really toxic. Bill Hawkins Bloomington, MN -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glenn Little WB4UIV Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 9:16 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] 468-DC NBS Time receiver Thank you for the reply and the links to the resources. I may use this as a slave display from another time generator. At least I will not waste my time trying to get this to function as it was intended. Thanks 73 Glenn WB4UIV _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
