[time-nuts] Freestanding mast

Steve Rooke sar10538 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 5 11:56:41 UTC 2010


On 5 September 2010 22:29, Bruce Griffiths <bruce.griffiths at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> Magnus Danielson wrote:
>>
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> On 09/05/2010 10:18 AM, Steve Rooke wrote:
>>>
>>> On 5 September 2010 04:42, Rob Kimberley<rk at timing-consultants.com>
>>>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Just a thought, as you are in southern hemisphere, wouldn't you see more
>>>> birds facing North?
>>>
>>> Oops! I really meant North. Well spotted that man. My satellite
>>> azimuth/elevation chart looks quite typical to text-book style. My
>>> GPSDOs still seem to be recovering from the long power outage caused
>>> by the earthquake here early Saturday morning but the stats seem to be
>>> settling down again. My timing gear and antenna were unaffected but it
>>> sure moved some of the heavy HP instruments that I have piled up on my
>>> workbench and demolished my computer "rack", but luckily everything
>>> seems to be working OK. The only thing that seems to be at fault is my
>>> broadband which is playing up now and I wonder if the telephone lines
>>> have been damaged in some way.
>>
>> I was about to ask how you New Zeeland time-nuts was doing and affected by
>> the earthquake.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Magnus
>>
> Along with other North Island dwelling TN's I didn't feel a thing.

Apparently they felt it up to New Plymouth. I'm glad it did not hit
Auckland as the effects could have been much worse. Down here were
very hardy and a bit of a wobble is nothing :)

Steve

> Bruce
>
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