[time-nuts] Personal time keeping...

[Brooke Clarke]

Hi Jim:

How about a photo?

Have Fun,

Brooke Clarke
http://www.PRC68.com


Jim Palfreyman wrote:
> I have posted about this before, but I actually have one of the
> original six speaking clocks used in Australia. I keep it running and
> found a way to synchronise it to the gps.
>
> There was one in each state and it provided the message over the phone
> as well as accurate time signals to radio stations. Originally it was
> all synced back to a caesium unit in Melbourne via phone lines. They
> knew the phone line delay because they put an atomic clock on a plane
> and flew it to each state on installation.
>
> It's my most treasured possession. I have it connected up to an old
> black Bakelite phone for extra ooohhs and aaahhhs.
>
> It's the size of a fridge.
>
> Jim
>
>
> On Friday, 20 May 2011, Dr. David Kirkby<david.kirkby at onetel.net>  wrote:
>    
>> On 05/19/11 05:20 PM, Max Robinson wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Is anyone else old enough to remember when you would hear on the radio
>> "Time at the tone, 5 o'clock. Beep." The tone was anywhere from half a
>> second to one second long and it might have been hard to pin down if the
>> beginning or the end of the tone was 5 o'clock but it was probably
>> within a couple of seconds accuracy which was plenty good for setting
>> your watch or the kitchen clock. Why don't you hear that now a days?
>> Digital TV has latency which is dependant on the equipment used by the
>> cable or satellite company and is somewhat variable between receiver
>> manufacturers. The engineer of our local public radio station told me
>> that digital radio has 7 seconds delay. When I asked the station manager
>> if there were any plans to run studio time 7 seconds ahead of real time
>> so listeners would get accurate time he just frowned.
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> Max. K 4 O D S.
>>
>> Email: max at maxsmusicplace.com
>>
>>
>> In the UK you can phone the number "123" from a BT phone and get:
>>
>> At the third stoke the time from BT will be 10 10 and fixty seconds beep beep beep
>> At the third stoke the time from BT will be 10 11 precisely beep beep beep
>> At the third stoke the time from BT will be 10 11 and ten seconds beep beep beep
>>
>> At one time (excuse the pun), it used to say something like "At the third stoke the time sponsored by Accurist will be ..."
>>
>> Before that, I can't recall, but I think when I was younger there was neither BT or Accurist in the message.
>>
>>
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