[access-uk] Re: WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR ATOMIC CLOCK
- From: "David W Wood" <g3yxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:08:30 -0000
Hi Carol:
It is a continuous transmission in a prescribed format which I cannot recall
from memory.
I am sure that I have the information somewhere if you are interested.
David
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Carol Pearson
Sent: 28 October 2007 16:05
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR ATOMIC CLOCK
No, I didn't think it should make a difference either.
Is the signal transmitted at intervals, or is it always being sent out?
--
Carol
carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "David W Wood" <g3yxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 3:59 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR ATOMIC CLOCK
> 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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