[time-nuts] Affordable PoE 6-digit time displays?

[David Andersen]

Thanks, all - sounds like either finding a cheap IRIG display or hacking up
a pi/arduino/etc. version will be the path forward.  The IRIG displays I
can find quickly on ebay are still priced for people building music
studios, so...

RPi 3 B+ supports PoE with an extra hat, and you can get pi-powered 3.5"
TFTs cheaply.  This may work best.

A friend also pointed me to some networked dot-matrix displays that will do
NTP from timemachinescorp, which might be a fun diversion. :); -Dave


  -Dave


On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 12:52 PM Bob kb8tq <kb8tq at n1k.org> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I suspect part of the answer is “they are cool looking stuff, grab it when
> it’s swapped out” ….
> They are out there, but not on the surplus market.
>
> Bob
>
> > On Jun 15, 2018, at 12:10 PM, Martin VE3OAT <ve3oat at storm.ca> wrote:
> >
> > What about the clock part of the old AN/GSQ-53A frequency/time rack?
> >
> > It wasn't NTP of course, but ran off of 1 MHz (as I recall) and
> generated IRIG-B for remote displays.  The rack included a nice Sulzer
> crystal oscillator (plus a spare), later upgraded to HP rubidium RVFS
> (5061A?).
> >
> > There must have been thousands of them made for US DoD and NASA.  We had
> at least a dozen in Canada that I know of (5 field sites, plus spares).
> >
> > Where did they all go?
> >
> > ... Martin   VE3OAT
> >
> >
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