[time-nuts] Re: Intro and question

[paul swed]

Kevin
So your giving up on the heathkit. Perhaps it can be revived. That old
there can be reasonable failures. Unless the top of the MCU blew off.
Humor. Do you care to share more details?
Regards
Paul
WB8TSL

On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 5:31 PM KevinC via time-nuts <
time-nuts at lists.febo.com> wrote:

> Hi all, new to this list.
>
> I just lost my beloved Heathkit GC-1000 that has, amazingly, run for
> almost 50 years (I built it when I was about 15, 65 now) after our last
> set of power outages up here in NE Missouri (37 hours without power due
> to snowstorms - set a new record for us).
>
> Not sure exactly what I want to replace it with, other than not wanting
> a GPS solution.  My office/man cave is tin sided, but I have loop
> antenna and long wire antenna feeds in through that. The GC-1000 synced
> up with the 5/10/15MHz radio signals and displayed time in 1/10th second
> increments.  Something similar would be sweet.
>
>   I have a lot of computer servers, all NTP synced, so its more about
> the tech used than a second resolution time - my PC or servers can
> provide me that.
>
> On the other hand, having NTP Stratum 0 output support would be diabetes
> inducing sweet.  I'm on gigabit Internet, so could support a bit of a load.
>
> Alas, being retired on fixed income does make cost an issue, so lets
> float $500 out as a proposed budget.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
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