[time-nuts] Spectracom 8170 is sync'ed to wwvb...

Burt I. Weiner biwa at att.net
Sun Jun 16 10:51:39 EDT 2013


Paul,

Looking forward to seeing what you did.  I'm an old dog and don't 
seem to learn new tricks such as looking at the other clocks in my 
shoppe to see what time it is.  I keep looking at the 8170.

Burt, K6OQK


>To: Time-nuts <time-nuts at febo.com>, paul swed <paulswedb at gmail.com>
>Subject: [time-nuts] Spectracom 8170 is sync'ed to wwvb. Nice to see it again
>
>As I mentioned earlier. Simply built up a AM rcvr using a MSA8160 clock
>chip and then a inverter clock oscillator with a 60 Khz xtal and some and
>gates. The spectracom came right up immediately locked the VCO and then
>decoded time. Sweet.
>Cost sub $10.
>Will chicken scratch a drawing sometime tomorrow and share out. Notes are a
>bit messy.
>Regards
>Paul
>WB8TSL
>

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Broadcast Technical Services
Glendale, California  U.S.A.
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