[time-nuts] Looking for WWVB digital wall clock with digital 24 hour UTC display
Mike S
mikes at flatsurface.com
Fri Feb 21 11:18:24 UTC 2014
On 2/19/2014 8:47 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions, but the MFJ121 does not
> display the date and the Lacrosse 8055 and 8016
> do not display seconds. I need hour minutes seconds
> day and date. You wouldn't think that would be
> so hard. It looks like my only choice is this
> smallish "wall" clock (more like a desk clock):
How about a cheap Android tablet and a clock application? I assume
you're planning on AC power, since LEDs won't run long on battery.
Sellout.woot.com has a $60 tablet, and it's not hard to find them under
$100. According to the manual, "If Sero 7 connected with a Wi-Fi, you
can also select use network-provided time." While not strictly WWVB, if
you only need 1 second resolution, NTP should be fine. This also assumes
you have WiFi available.
You can probably find a 10" one for <$100. If you stretch, I've seen
refurb 1st gen iPads for $150 (pretty sure these can do NTP, too). The
real cheap tablets tend to have poor digitizers, but that really doesn't
matter for use as a wall clock.
http://sellout.woot.com
http://hisense-usa.com/tablets/sero7lt
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gadgetjuice.dockclock
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