Time And Clocks in the Ham Shack

[@AndrewWoroniecki]

It's pretty incredible how few options exist for a simple clock that will both set itself via the WWVB digital signal AND allow you to pick a UTC/GMT time zone adjustment. Upsetting, really. This topic that you cover in this video really is worth a lot of discussion. Well done.

[@Jimmyzb36]

Thanks!!!! HeathKit Rocked!!!!!

[@banihex]

I just wanted to say I (and others) really appreciate this video and your effort! Clocks are an important tool in the shed, and a modern take/perspective was really needed.

[@rico1319]

Too funny ( for a good time listen to WWV) outstanding video thanks so much hope your health is well! 👍👍👍😎🇨🇱

[@JeffLeites]

Funniest line in the video: "I'm not a time nut" 🤣

[@pat3034]

Thanks for taking the "time" to share your shack Randy. What a great collection! I built 1 of the Nixie tube clock kits from PV Electronics based in the UK. It's also linked to a GPS receiver and very accurate. PVE have quite a variety of kits. They're kits are very well made and provide some of the best kit building instructions I've used ... might be something to add to your all ready awesome collection! Thanks again!!!

[@K7AGE]

Those look like neat clocks.

[@smky143]

The red filter is a must, I got some photo gel filter type stuff and put over mine.

[@pakeck1]

Very cool. Lots of ideas to try. Thanks Randy

[@paulhastings3109]

Nice setup for clocks Clocks in the house are local the radio is utc It used to be green which meantime

[@tubular031]

That intro was awesome!!

[@steve0432]

OMG! I love the ending of this video.

[@jameski5oeb668]

Loved this on Ham Nation!

[@sm3shg]

About the UTC acronym... From Wikipedia :) The official abbreviation for Coordinated Universal Time is UTC. This abbreviation comes as a result of the International Telecommunication Union and the International Astronomical Union wanting to use the same abbreviation in all languages. English speakers originally proposed CUT (for "coordinated universal time"), while French speakers proposed TUC (for "temps universel coordonné"). The compromise that emerged was UTC,[7] which conforms to the pattern for the abbreviations of the variants of Universal Time (UT0, UT1, UT2, UT1R, etc.).[8]

[@K7AGE]

Thanks

[@jeepien]

Any time the initials don't line up with the order of the words, you can bet the French had a hand in it. It's why the International System (of units) is called The SI.

[@brian-pu3yy]

Interesting stuff,thx

[@paulwilson7761]

According to convention, the initialism "UTC" was adopted as a compromise between the English "coordinated universal time" and the French "temps universel coordonné."

[@EddyGurge]

Fantastic video. Ordered my Mitxela!

[@boogermeats]

Nice. It sure beats my hour glass method.

[@kensurtees2303]

Great Video.😉

[@CT1JRZ]

Nice clock collection!

[@gregorykusiak5424]

I have my Asus router acting as an NTP server for my network referencing local stratum 1 atomic clocks. Over the past 30 days it has pulled the offset in to .002ms and drift is settling in below 3usec. It makes a difference in how each client device reacts, and how the network “feels” - by not having to correct timing errors between devices, data can flow much closer to the speeds the different interfaces were designed for

[@K7AGE]

Cool

[@gregorykusiak5424]

@@K7AGE I should do a video with all of the phones and tablets in the house in sync, changing time together, with a radio time signal in the background for audio...

[@normkirk65]

Great video ! Thank you ! Do you use or have any Rubidium oscillators/ frequency references ? Those would be neat to interface with a digital LED display and watch how it and WWV would deviate over the months and years if it had a battery back-up. Norm

[@K7AGE]

No other fancy refernces.

[@nr3rful]

Wow...just like the beginning of "The Time Machine "

[@mackfisher4487]

For now anyway the national Bureau of standards still broadcast its VLF WWVB time signal that commercially available "atomic clocks" use. Question one see a difference between Dimension 4 and WWVB? Of course the GPS clocks are super accurate too

[@K7AGE]

My WWVB clocks don’t get locked very often. Sometimes I need to move them to a window.

[@1crazynordlander]

Great video! I love the ending. If I could put it together I would like to enact a scene where a WWV employee is sitting at their desk in the radio studio and listening to the tick...tock...tick and every minute giving the time in UTC (I know this is a recording) and as time goes by the employee starts to grow weary and messes up the hour and the minute and soon after starts to have a mental break down and goes crazy from all the ticking and tocking and runs out the building to the mountains and becomes a hermit.

[@K7AGE]

Twilight Zone

[@Siskiyous6]

UTC Universal Time Co-ordinate. The usage is what got mixed up, not the designation at time of invention. Plus, it was sort of a Euro thing and subjected to translation, and you know how strange that becomes.

[@iankirk3537]

Because the orbital inclination of the GPS satellites is 55 degrees and Oregon is 46 north there will be rarely be one due north of Oregon. It should happen, though.

[@AC9BXEric]

UTC is a specific time standard and is itself (the coordinated part) a composite of other specific time standards & observations. It is very closely in sync with UT1 which uses earth's rotational position in relation to distant quasars and such objects as a reference, almost the same as mean solar time (yet another standard). UTC ticks in SI unit seconds in sync with International Atomic Time but with leap seconds added or subtracted to keep it within 1 second of variation. There are several of these time standards. "What time is it?" or "how long is 1 second?" are rather complicated questions. Terms such as GMT, Greenwich Mean Time, although once a standard, today more describes a time zone. GMT & "zulu" aren't really synonyms for UTC. The NIST atomic clock is accurate to 1 second in 100 million years. That means only the duration of a second has such precision. It doesn't answer the question of what time it is.

[@DK5ONV]

Uncle Günter waving a hand into OR-State. Good to have you back on the Channel again. Stay safe Randy. de D K 5 O N V

[@anthonygallo3576]

Really great and informative. I live that tide clock i am on the atlantic coast north jersey shore.i cant find one.wede did u get yours?

[@carlbrown5150]

beautiful!!

[@charleswatson336]

Could you post the link to the plastic cover company? What were the dimensions you had the red plastic cover cut to? Ordered the clock. Let's hope I can successfully assemble it. Thank you.

[@carlos-i5c1j]

espero que te encuentre bien saludos 73

[@ryanwalsh6549]

Randy the setup looks great joe Ei4gx

[@seanchallenge]

Brilliant 👏 de ZS5X Pinetown South Africa

[@pixoariz]

That time that iHeart Radio took over WWV on a LMA.

[@Tocsin-Bang]

I use an arduino clock linked to GPS. Gives me UTC day, time to 1 second and date.

[@LikeDotAudio]

Awesome clock

[@ammocraft]

Love the thumbnail. ;)

[@kevinkc3onohelijeepworld953]

How is tower coming along ? Have you had any water incursion? Have you strung up any dipoles ? Thank you Kevin KC3ONO

[@sklegg]

I’m always struggling with the arithmetic to figure out when contests start.

[@K7AGE]

Time and the day too

[@sklegg]

@@K7AGE yes exactly. I really like that UTC clock kit. I think I will pick one up for the shack. Very cool.

[@jkyontz]

Randy, are you sure you’re not a time nut?

[@stephenrichendefer8782]

Wikipedia has a great read if interested in how UTC came about. The page is "Coordinated Universal Time" .

[@K7AGE]

I’ll check it out

[@aurtisanminer2827]

I never knew that there were two locations for wwvb. I thought it was just in colorado this whole time.

[@danmeadows2190]

WWV and WWVB are in CO, WWVH is in HI.

[@aurtisanminer2827]

@@danmeadows2190 ok, I see. Thanks for the info! I always thought I was getting my signal from Colorado before, but I’ve actually been getting it from Hawaii. That would explain the good signal up here in AK.

[@wvwildlifecam9159]

If you don't have a shortwave radio you can also call in and hear the time.

[@butch3715]

Hey Doc... you left your equipment on. :)

[@HAMRADIOJOE4178]

FIRST, HELLO RANDY. NICE VIDEO, I LIKE THAT TIC CLOCK. THANKS, JOE

[@knife-wieldingspidergod5059]

My soldering skill is not good, where can I get one of his long LED UTC clock or something similar to it assembled?

[@K7AGE]

I don’t know.. google around

[@lewisg6987]

Was looking for the flux capacitor

[@K7AGE]

Hidden

[@OregonDX]

Randy I enjoy your videos. I’m curious if you have tried to check in to the Medford Rouge valley 2m SSB net? I live in Reedsport and haven’t had any luck on 2m SSB. Wondering how large of a group they are.. 73 N7ORG

[@K7AGE]

No. I do have a 2M beam to go on the tower.

[@KE6GRM]

Thank you Randy ai6lz

[@hankus253]

Were you in Federal Way last Friday?

[@ianxfs]

It’s all relative Randy 👍🏻

[@tjmacfarlane1983]

Universal Time Constant -UTC

[@carlos-i5c1j]

hola randy soy carlos el que te mando las qsl espaero que te acuerde mi saludo

[@where578]

Randy, gps sats are NOT polar orbit....?

[@K7AGE]

I looked into this and found that the maximum inclination of the orbits 57 degrees. Learned something new. Thanks.

[@ColoRadio6996]

I'll tell you that Bernie has shown up in more places..... Cheers, Stay Healthy.

[@jameski5oeb668]

Link for the date/time clock?

[@K7AGE]

mitxela.com/shop/clock

[@NipkowDisk]

Dr. Judah Levine would be proud.

[@1958johndeere620]

I use meinburg ntp sync. The windows sync sucks for ft8. Its not accurate, not even close.

[@MikeHoughtonasUnit8720]

as in time clocks which Bernie never had to do

[@jamesalles139]

yes clocks

[@johnantonuk8047]

UTC is the French acronym

[@speedbuggy16v]

UTC FTW thats all you need to know.

[@Capecodham]

Time to leave the dinner table.

[@jgwimmer]

UTC is not Universal Coordinated Time it is universal time coordinated

[@Nico_83]

Is it daylight savings or saving time ? 😂😉

[@K7AGE]

Or in the UK, winter and summer time

[@warplanner8852]

..saving..

[@radiorainerhistory]

Grüße von meinem Kanal neues von gestern, Radio Rainer

[@K1ZEK]

Very "timely video" HI HI .

[@Davidjb37721]

Thanks ke4hpq

[@onenesswithJesus]

After my Hero Jesus Christ you are my Favorite person.

[@warplanner8852]

Randy, time nut = horologist

[@K7AGE]

I solder parts on a printed circuit board

[@warplanner8852]

@@K7AGE sorry! I meant a builder/horologist!

[@toddanonymous5295]

If only I could do that just by snapping my fingers

[@paxdomini9714]

His mittens were made by a lady who had to go out of business because of high taxes

[@K7AGE]

Sad

[@ericzerkle5214]

Why is ham radio dominated by old men?

[@warplanner8852]

Seriously? It's because women are too weak and emotionally strung out to handle the rigors of amateur radio, perhaps?

[@ericzerkle5214]

@@warplanner8852 Who knows or it's the cringe factor of so many old weird men that act funny around women and never bathe?

[@warplanner8852]

@@ericzerkle5214 I was being facetious. There are a lot of women in amateur radio.

[@ronvaliant9337]

Crazy Bernie. Almost as bad as Sleepy Joe

[@aprilk141]

Nope, he has fought for working class folks in real ways when most dems and all repubs has betrayed the working class for decades.

[@ronvaliant9337]

@@aprilk141 Actually Trump did more for working people than Biden AND Obama. Biden will turn America into part of China. Sleepy Joe did nothing good for 42 years except raise a crooked son.