Hi Steve, Have you thought about locking the "cuckoo" call to GPS? I don't know how that call is generated, but I guess it wouldn't be too difficult to control electronically.
Ron G3SVW ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Rooke" <[email protected]> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 11:52 AM Subject: [time-nuts] GPS disciplined mechanical clocks > Has anyone looked at locking an old mechanical clock to precise time? > What I'm thinking of is something like an old cuckoo clock. The rule > is that the clock remains basically standard and is only steered by > the external source, say, by a magnetic pulse to the pendulum, IE. no > physical connection. Obviously the correct period of the pulse would > have to fit the timing of the pendulum. OK, it seems pointless as you > can't read time with any real accuracy on something like a cuckoo > clock but I'm sure there is the likelihood of something like this > being done by someone like us. > > 73, > Steve > -- > Steve Rooke - ZL3TUV & G8KVD & JAKDTTNW > Omnium finis imminet > > _______________________________________________ > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
