Hi Jim:
How about a photo?
Have Fun,
Brooke Clarke
http://www.PRC68.com
Jim Palfreyman wrote:
I have posted about this before, but I actually have one of the
original six speaking clocks used in Australia. I keep it running and
found a way to synchronise it to the gps.
There was one in each state and it provided the message over the phone
as well as accurate time signals to radio stations. Originally it was
all synced back to a caesium unit in Melbourne via phone lines. They
knew the phone line delay because they put an atomic clock on a plane
and flew it to each state on installation.
It's my most treasured possession. I have it connected up to an old
black Bakelite phone for extra ooohhs and aaahhhs.
It's the size of a fridge.
Jim
On Friday, 20 May 2011, Dr. David Kirkby<[email protected]> wrote:
On 05/19/11 05:20 PM, Max Robinson wrote:
Is anyone else old enough to remember when you would hear on the radio
"Time at the tone, 5 o'clock. Beep." The tone was anywhere from half a
second to one second long and it might have been hard to pin down if the
beginning or the end of the tone was 5 o'clock but it was probably
within a couple of seconds accuracy which was plenty good for setting
your watch or the kitchen clock. Why don't you hear that now a days?
Digital TV has latency which is dependant on the equipment used by the
cable or satellite company and is somewhat variable between receiver
manufacturers. The engineer of our local public radio station told me
that digital radio has 7 seconds delay. When I asked the station manager
if there were any plans to run studio time 7 seconds ahead of real time
so listeners would get accurate time he just frowned.
Regards.
Max. K 4 O D S.
Email: [email protected]
In the UK you can phone the number "123" from a BT phone and get:
At the third stoke the time from BT will be 10 10 and fixty seconds beep beep
beep
At the third stoke the time from BT will be 10 11 precisely beep beep beep
At the third stoke the time from BT will be 10 11 and ten seconds beep beep beep
At one time (excuse the pun), it used to say something like "At the third stoke the
time sponsored by Accurist will be ..."
Before that, I can't recall, but I think when I was younger there was neither
BT or Accurist in the message.
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