[time-nuts] Used Spectracom

Burt I. Weiner biwa at att.net
Thu Jan 17 00:01:13 UTC 2013


Paul,

I just went out to my shoppe and looked.  Mine is locked and has been 
for most of the day, with two green lights.  Some time ago I added a 
meter to the front panel that I connected to one of the test 
points.  It's currently fairly steady except for the normal dips in 
carrier strength.  About this time of day it usually starts to go 
nuts because of the Diurnal shift.  I'm in Glendale, CA, just north 
of Downtown Los Angeles.  My WWVB antenna is a ferrite rod type in a 
PVC tube.  It's been laying by the side of the house on the ground 
for over 15 years.  That's where I've always gotten the cleanest 
signal - found that out when we re-roofed the house.

Burt, K6OQK


>From: paul swed <paulswedb at gmail.com>
>
>Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Used Spectracom
>
>Quite odd my 8170 absolutely will not lock
>
>On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Burt I. Weiner <biwa at att.net> wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure what the status of the new modulation scheme is at the
> > moment, but my Spectracom 8170 is still keeping good time.  That's about
> > all I use it for anymore - a clock in the rack.  It says it's locked.
> >
> > Burt, K6OQK
> >

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