[time-nuts] Datum 9390 - Y2K update?

[karl strauss]

The model that was being offered on EBay was the "older" model  - the one 
with the single line display and the keyboard on the left.
 From everything I've read, (thanks to the many experts here on the 
forum)  I became more and more convinced that this old-9390 would not work 
(shall I say, would not work for what I wanted to do) -- luckily the EBay 
seller agreed to cancel the sale without any penalty whatsoever.  She was 
convinced that the unit was unusable and, much to point out that there is 
at least one honest person in the world, even posted such speculation in 
the Ebay ad - a crucial line that I had missed.

I talked to her to say a very much appreciated Thank You, she said that she 
was using the 9390 as a step stool (!) anyway.

Good luck on your pursuits. If anyone knows of a usable 9390, I'd be 
interested on a pointer...

Thanks

At 09:07 AM Saturday 3/11/2006, you wrote:
>I also purchased a version of the 9390 off of ebay last year. This one has a
>rubidium inside. I asked a lot of questions about it on here, and elsewhere,
>and the general consensus was that because of the week rollover it would
>likely not work. Well, I entered my local coordinates after turning it on.
>And, low and behold after a short while the actual date and time came up on
>the display. The information on the LCD display still seems flaky as at
>times it tells me that there are 2 usable satellites, or no usable
>satellites, or it is doing a GPS correction. Regardless of what it says, it
>always seems to lock on and always displays the correct time. It came all
>the way from California so had a totally different set of initial position
>coordinates programmed into it. The attached photo shows it running next to
>a Z3801A. The copper mesh on the top of the Z3801A is something I put on
>there in place of the original cover as it just seemed to run way too hot. I
>also built a linear AC to DC power supply into the box. It was a tight fit.
>Good luck with your 9390. I seemed to luck out with mine. Regards - Mike
>
>
>
>Mike B. Feher, N4FS
>89 Arnold Blvd.
>Howell, NJ, 07731
>732-886-5960
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
>Behalf Of Karl F Strauss
>Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 9:17 PM
>To: time-nuts at febo.com
>Subject: [time-nuts] Datum 9390 - Y2K update?
>
>I just purchased a Datum 9390 off EBay.  The seller is warning me that she
>was told that the 9390's need some sort of update w/r/t Y2K in order for it
>to operate.  The seller states (and the pticures show) that the unit
>responds Self Test OK during power on.
>
>The seller is giving me the right to bow out of the sale if the unit cannot
>work.  My main goal here is to develop a precise 1PPS and millisecond tick.
>To be able to pre-set the time and date would be ideal but not ABSOLUTELY
>required.
>
>Advice, please!
>
>
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