Most Accurate Clock

[Ernie Kluft]

         I have another suggestion, which did me quite well....    A few 
months back, a fellow "Heather" whose name escapes me, had a couple 
articles about changing the electrolytics in his clock....   I bought all 
of them for just over $20 from Mouser, and spent a couple hours in the 
change out....  I noticed a vast improvement in the frequency of hi-spec 
and the brightness of the LEDs....   I'm an old retired engineer, blind in 
one eye, so it CAN be done fairly easy....




At 09:32 AM 4/7/2005, you wrote:
>Ray and Heath team;
>My GC-1000 clock started to do the same thing. I did a receiver alignment 
>on it and that really "perked" it up. I believe (just can't remeber and I 
>don't have the manual in front of me), that the Receiver IF is 455kc. I 
>set my signal generator to 455kc and peaked the IF transformers and found 
>they were off. I then set the generator to 5, 10 and 15 mhz and aligned 
>the receiver front end coils. They were also off. After that, the clock 
>worked much much better!! Big difference. Pull out your schematic and 
>locate the IF and RF coils and using a stable/accurate signal generator, 
>give them a "tweak". you'll be amazed at the difference.
>
>Mark V. Johnson VE3DJU/VE3DDI
> >
> > From: "Ray D. Leivo" <ve6id at RAC.CA>
> > Date: 2005/04/06 Wed PM 10:37:58 EST
> > To: HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV
> > Subject: [HEATH-TEMPE] Most Accurate Clock
> >
> > About 3 or 4 years ago our Most Accurate Clock (GC-1000) stopped 
> picking up
> > the WWV  time signal for an extended time. On the way to take it to the
> > trash bin I decided to try one more time by putting it in the corner of 
> our
> > house closest to Fort Collins, Colorado. Surprise, it worked fine and has
> > picked up the signal since then just fine. Does any one have any comments
> > about this, ie WWV personnel?
> >
> > Ray VE6ID ( ex VE3AQJ, OZ4DI (summer job in Denmark 1972), VE6ABH )
> > St. Paul, Alberta, Canada  - Grid Square DO43 from my 6 metre days, bravo
> > to the SB-110 (never had one!)
> >
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