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Gerry Leary <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 27 Jul 2015 06:12:48 -0600
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You also have to remember that if you are listening to WWV through remote software there is a delay.

Sent from my iPhone this time 

> On Jul 26, 2015, at 10:03 PM, David Pearson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> Hi List:
> 
> The other day I was listening to WA0TDA's station via the remoteham RCFORB 
> client software, and it was tuned to the WWV time signal(think that it was 
> 10MHz),so I thought that it would be a good oppurtunity to set my watch 
> correctly(I know that they're differing opinionsabout "beeps", but I can't 
> read Braille, and try to be discreet about checking time in public).
> 
> Anyway, I set the watch only to later discover that I neglected to subtract 
> 4 hours for UTC difference.
> 
> My question is when is   the exact moment to set time per WWV.  Is it at 
> the first time that you hear the beep after the voice announcement?This may 
> seem naive,but there's a lot of  ticking sounds, and I Just wanted to be 
> sure that I'm using the correct "noise" the next time I used WWV for this 
> purpose.
> 
> Secondly, I am going to be placing some adhesive  orientation "bump-dots" on 
> my keyboard(plastic keys).  What is the best stuff/method to use on the keys 
> to insure that these bumps adhere for as long as possible?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> 
> 
> David S. Pearson 
> 
> 
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