[access-uk] Re: WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR ATOMIC CLOCK
- From: "martin wilsher" <m.wilsher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:08:11 -0000
I believe the cumbria talking clock sends out a signal every hour or so.
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Carol Pearson
Sent: 28 October 2007 16:18
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR ATOMIC CLOCK
Well, she's only just four ... and hasn't been knocked about, you know!
Anyway, we'll watch it next time around ... until then she should be OK.
--
Carol
carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 4:14 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR ATOMIC CLOCK
> Yes, David's right. At those frequencies propergation over that sort
> of distance isn't a problem.
>
> Could be Carol that Freeda's getting old?
>
>
>
> From Ray
> I can be contacted off-list at:
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> David W Wood
>
>
> Carol:
> The transmitter for the standard time signal moved earlier this year
> from
> Rugby to a site on the west coast of Cumbria - the lease on the rugby
> site
> ran out.
>
> This distance shouldn't make a material difference from London.
>
> David
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of
> David Russell
> Sent: 28 October 2007 14:55
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR ATOMIC CLOCK
>
> carol,
>
> I do not know the answer to your atomic clock problem, but the signal
> may be
> variable depending on where you position the clock, in the same way
> that a
> portable radio may work well in one position and not so well somewhere
> else.
>
>
> David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf
> Of Carol Pearson
> Sent: 28 October 2007 14:51
> To: Access UK Mailing List
> Subject: [access-uk] WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR ATOMIC CLOCK
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Some of you will have the RNIB's atomic clock. Ours has served us
> well for
> four years now, without even changing the batteries. We were not
> over-surprised when it didn't change today and figured that probably
> the
> battery strength needed to be greater to acquire the atomic signal
> than even
> to use speech ... so we changed batteries - and waited! No, she
> didn't
> change ... and hadn't when we left our home 20 minutes later!
>
> Thankfully, when we arrived home, we found that Freda (for that's her
> name)
> had put herself right - at last!
>
> We're a bit puzzled though at the time this took, since we remember,
> when
> she was new, that it didn't take long for her to acquire the correct
> information.
>
> Anyone any theories as to why it should take so long to acquire the
> signal?
> I know this used to be transmitted from Rugby but that this changed a
> few
> years back. Is it just because the signal is further away from us now
> that
> it takes so long, or is it only transmitted at certain times in a day?
> Where does it come from now?
>
> I'm just curious so would appreciate any answers that anyone can give.
>
> (Incidentally, she's called Freda because our friend first introduced
> us to
> the atomic clock with his before they became available for VI's; and
> he
> affectionately called his Fritz!)
>
> Now, less of this waffle and over to you ...
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Carol
> carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
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