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George:

Yes, there are two talking so-called atomic clocks, and even one atomic 
watch. There's one clock that is just a clock, with a british female 
announcement voice, and there is a combination talking atomic clock with 
temperature senser. I believe that both speak-to-me: and independent living 
aids carry these. Both venders also have the atomic watch, though ILA is out 
of them presently. ILA does sell the atomic watch $10 below the speak-to-me 
price.

One observation, though. These clocks actually receive a time signal from 
WWVB at 60KHz, not the WWV signals at 2.5, 5, 10, and 15MHz. Given that the 
clocks are looking for time synchronization signals on this low frequency, 
you really should have the clock near a window, especially if you live in an 
apartment or condo complex. I used to live in a town house, but when I moved 
back to my condo, well, even when placing my two atomic clocks on window 
sills, they rarely get synchronized, doubtless because of the compressors, 
florescent lights, and everything else around here that's trashing the low 
portion of the radio spectrum.

If you need further information, just write me off list.

HTH!

John



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Cassell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 9:23 PM
Subject: [VICUG-L] Radio-controlled talking clocks?


>I guess there's a new breed of clocks these days, clocks that never have to
> be manually set, because they have a built-in radio receiver that receives
> the WWV world time standard, and automatically set themselves, and keep
> themselves precisely set to the very second all the time.
>
> This is nice, of course, having an electronic clock of this type that 
> never
> has to be set or reset, even when we switch into and out of Daylight 
> Savings
> time.
>
> So I am wondering, does anyone know if anyone has bothered to make a 
> talking
> version of any of these super whiz bang electronic clocks of the future,
> that are already here today?
>
> -- George
>
>
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