[time-nuts] Portable Time Standard
Tim Shoppa
tshoppa at gmail.com
Fri Jan 11 20:33:32 UTC 2019
Many of the 70's/80's Japanese marine quartz chronometers had a test button
that gave you an audible beep every second.
I am not an expert in every quartz clock mechanism BUT a 1-10mH nonshielded
inductor makes an excellent pickup for the "ticks" from any quartz clock or
watch that I've ever met.
Tim N3QE
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 3:04 PM Joe Hobart <nova at npgcable.com> wrote:
> I need a relatively lightweight, self powered, portable clock accurate to 1
> second per month. Temperatures may range from 10 to 35 C; altitude from
> 1000 to
> 7000 feet. Although expensive, some of the marine quartz chronometers
> appear to
> meet this requirement. ~0.3 PPM.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with these devices?
>
> If so, has anyone tried to detect the probably weak magnetic field
> generated by
> the clock mechanism for time comparison purposes?
>
> Thanks,
> Joe, W7LUX
>
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