[time-nuts] Spectracom 8170 Time of Day grief...

[Burt I. Weiner]

Well, at 12:00 Noon I watched to see what would happen (I wonder if 
the 12:00 Noon is pacific or elsewhere?)  The problem continued.  So 
apparently the twice a day legacy time signal is, as Paul said, no more.

Checking around home we have several "atomic clocks".  Based on my 
GPS clock time, they are all off by many seconds.  A friend of mine 
observes the same thing with all of his "atomic clocks"..

So now the question is, where do you find clocks that should set with 
the new WWVB Format?

Burt, K6OQK


>From: paul swed <paulswedb at gmail.com>
>
>Burt what you mention was indeed correct. But that non psk time was stopped
>about a month ago.
>Its pure PSK now as far as I know
>
>
>On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Burt I. Weiner <biwa at att.net> wrote:
>
> > Paul,
> >
> > Thanks for the information. Late last night I did a search and found out
> > about the "d-pskr-r" - an appropriate name, indeed. I gather there is no
> > final design that says, "Here, build this and it'll work". I have a malady
> > that I suspect is common in this group; I hate to throw anything away or
> > convert it to a door stop.
> >
> > Supposedly, WWVB reverts back to the non-psk mode twice a day, at 12:00
> > Noon and again at 12:00 Midnight, each time for 30 minutes. Last night my
> > 8170 did not set. At my location the signal has been the most stable during
> > the day, so I'm going to watch it today at noon. I'll report my useless
> > findings afterwards. If it were to set once every 24 hours I would probably
> > be happy as I'm not using it to time a network, just to hopefully be a
> > little more accurate than my 30 year old kitchen clock.

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