Hi Lou!
Always glad to know someone knows what I was talking about. Those clocks
were great. Mine saw a lot of service at home as well as at work when I was
in the radio reading service arena. As you say, they were great for radio
work.
The In Touch network ran the New York Times every day at 1 pm, and that
clock would let me hit that network feed on the money every time. If anyone
still has one in working order, I'd buy it in a heart beat.
Couldn't run it being on a 50 hz power system here, but having it for US
visits would be worth it.
73,
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Lou Kolb
Sent: Saturday, 14 November 2015 1:56 p.m.
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Net control operator
Dave,
I had a couple of those clocks over the years. Used them at radio stations
to backtime to the network news at the top of the hour. They were dandy
clocks and, like you, I'd love to get another one or two. Lou WA3MIX Lou
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Allen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2015 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: Net control operator
> Hi Ron!
>
> I ran some Army MARS nets largely like you described, but that was
> several years ago.
>
> Guess the fifty second clear period for tuning purposes at the
> beginning of the net is probably historic by now, since tuning the
> modern rig doesn't demand so much effort. Anyway, we still had to do
> that back in the day, and I was able to time that quite accurately
> because I had one of the Science Products modified braille clocks that
> had wheels including a seconds wheel that was marked every 5 seconds.
> When the braille Sense is working, it has a stop watch that would
> serve the purpose, but making that machine work reliably on demand is
> more miss than hit now so I'm not sure how I would arrange that tuning
> period in the modern age. If that is now history that you can confirm,
> that's OK, but if it is still a part of the net preamble, I wonder how
> we'd handle it now. They haven't sold that clock in several years, and
> the motor in mine finally stopped. I'd love to replace it with
> something that worked as well, but that is elusive also. I can set a
> timer on the iphone at the minute level, using Siri, but don't think
> it works for seconds. Ah well, progress bites again, hi hi.
>
> 73,
> Dave
> Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Ron Miller
> Sent: Saturday, 14 November 2015 6:42 a.m.
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Net control operator
>
> Hi Linda,
> I ran an Air Force MARS net for almost a year using nothing but
> headphones to listen and a Perkins Brailler to log. It's not high-tech
> but it worked very well for me. Today, you could transcribe your
> brailed notes into an MS Word file after the net so that you can
> create a date/time bulleted net log.
>
> 73,
>
>
>
>
> Ron Miller
> N6MSA
> Tarpon Springs, FL
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linda C. Knight
> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 10:36 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Net control operator
>
> Hi alleaa
>
> Since I got my license a few years ago, i've yet to try my how at net
> contro= l.
>
> Well, my goal is to do my turn as a Net Control and not sure of the
> best wa= y to do this. My radio is not near a computer so was
> thinking how do you d= o this-take down the callsigns. To count
> checkins. Thanks.=20
> =20
>
> Sent from my iPhone=
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