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T Behler <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:23:08 -0400
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    Danny:

Try the instructions I just gave Lou.

They worked for me.

Just be sure your clicking links as you go, and be sure to get the last one 
which says "graphic link".

73 from Tom Behler:  Kb8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Danny Dyer" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: WWV


> Don't feel bad, I couldn't "click the clock either, dd.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Lou Kolb" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 4:17 PM
> Subject: Re: WWV
>
>
>> Okay gang, what am I doing wrong?  I can't seem to figure out where to
>> click
>> to here the tick.  It says click the clock but I find no link where the
>> time
>> is displayed.  Lou, grinning sheepishly
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 8:36 PM
>> Subject: WWV
>>
>>
>>> Hi, everyone.
>>>
>>> Check out this funny story and internet link  about WWV from this week's
>>> Handiham e-letter.
>>>
>>> Enjoy!
>>>
>>> 73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ
>>>
>>> Fake WWV audio is a hoot!
>>> Tick, tick, tick... 1, 2, 3, 4... Every second counts at WWV.
>>>
>>> It's funny how I find stuff to put in the e-letter. This one came about
>>> because Jerry had mentioned to me that he heard a rumor about WWV
>>> discontinuing its HF transmissions, which, as far as I know, is a rumor
>>> without any substance. Anyway, as I was researching WWV, I started with 
>>> a
>>> Google search.  Seeing a link to WWV on Wikipedia, another of my 
>>> favorite
>>> web resources, I decided to see what the popular online encyclopedia had
>> to
>>> say. There is, as I expected, a wonderful overview of station WWV on
>>> Wikipedia, and no truth to the closing down HF rumor.  But there was a
>>> bonus: a link to a satire page - a fictitious website presents what WWV
>>> would be like if it were purchased by a commercial radio broadcasting
>>> conglomerate and privatized. The format change would include prerecorded
>>> snappy patter amid the time clicks, and the station would be called "The
>>> Tick":
>>> http://www.lownoiserecords.com/wwv_the_tick.html
>>>
>>> Well, I suppose people are used to hearing about things getting
>>> "privatized", so I guess rumors will be rumors!
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> --
>>> ----
> 

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