The other night I was at Wal-Mart looking for a battery operated alarm clock to take with me on my Leonid shower watch. I was afraid that I might doze off in my car in advance of the peak. Anyway, I discovered a nifty little "radio controlled" clock from Oregon Scientific. It receives the signal from WWV (or whatever it's called now) and sets itself. I've had it running since last Sunday and just compared its LCD readout with the atomic clock at http://nist.time.gov/ . The alarm clock is about 0.3 seconds faster than the atomic time on the Internet. That's pretty good in my opinion and all for about $13.00 US currency! Now I finally have an atomic clock that I can use anywhere and for very little money. It works well as an alarm too. The silver model I chose is RM103A. Oregon Scientific online can be located at http://www.weatherconnection.com/oregonscientific/default.asp Clear skies, Tom Iowa USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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