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From: johng@trwind.UUCP (John Greene)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: NBS time broadcast
Message-ID: <564@trwind.UUCP>
Date: 12 Aug 89 03:39:34 GMT
References: <8720@kean.mun.ca> <6142@stiatl.UUCP>
Reply-To: johng@trwind.UUCP (John Greene)
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In article <6142@stiatl.UUCP> john@stiatl.UUCP (John DeArmond) writes:
>In article <8720@kean.mun.ca> andrew@kean.mun.ca writes:
>
>The clock displays one-hundreths of seconds.  IT also has an RS-232 
>port that outputs the time in ascii each second.  Funny, the output is
>not synchronized to the time code.
 
Funny, mine is.

>
>The receiver in the Heath unit is very poor.  I had to erect a large
>dipole to get a signal under any condition.  Even with this antenna,
>I cannot receive the signal if a computer is on in the shack.
>
I don't have any problem with the receiver on mine.  Maybe that is why you
got such a good deal at the surplus place.  I keep my antenna about 1.5 feet 
high and it lights the "most accurate" light almost every night.  If I go to
an external antenna or extend the rod antenna to its full extent, the "most
accurate light is on for the majority of the time.

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