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    Re: Useless Interesting Facts

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    Re: Useless Interesting Facts

    Useless fact, I have brothers and sisters that range from a multi-millionaire to a 45 year old who has never owned a home or held down a steady job. Guess which one is the only democrat in our family.

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    Re: Useless Interesting Facts

    Quote Originally Posted by Tommy Gun View Post
    Useless fact, I have brothers and sisters that range from a multi-millionaire to a 45 year old who has never owned a home or held down a steady job. Guess which one is the only democrat in our family.
    And by multi-millionaire brother, you mean you.

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    No Joe, I mean Tek. Lol

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    Re: Useless Interesting Facts

    Whirpool ranges sometimes stop heating in mid cycle for no apparent reason.

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    Re: Useless Interesting Facts

    Burner relay or control board failing?

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    Re: Useless Interesting Facts

    Quote Originally Posted by 68fastback View Post
    Burner relay or control board failing?

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    It's on a rental, but I'm thinking it's the igniter (they work on a duty cycle, so turning off and on is required) or the burner itself. But, our lease is structured so the tenant is responsible for appliance repairs...so I gave them a couple appliance repair contacts. If they don't fix it, I'll charge it against deposit when they move out.
    "Live every day as if it were your last. One day, you'll be right."

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    Re: Useless Interesting Facts

    You may have one - we have several. You know, those "atomic clocks" that have date/time and temp.

    Well, they really aren't atomic clocks... They get their time from a low frequency (60KHz) radio station called WWVB that transmits from Ft. Collins, CO. This radio signal sends a code that the clock detects. It can take several hours to acquire it. Because of the transmission characteristics of that band it is most easily detectable at night (even more so than the plethora of AM stations that area all of a sudden there after the sun sets) so it's not uncommon to see the clock blink at you when you put batteries in it and then to have the time in the morning. They re-sync whenever the signal is available.

    The radio signal includes daylight time info to boot.

    The clocks have a requirement to be able to claim "compliance". They can have only a very small amount of drift (<1 second in 24 hours) during the intervals when the radio signal is unavailable.

    More info here

    https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/radio-stations/wwvb/help-wwvb-radio-controlled-clocks

    NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) publishes a "design guide" for the design of the clocks. https://tf.nist.gov/general/pdf/2422.pdf


    In the old days before cell phones I on the DST time changes I would always call WWV to set my watch. 303-499-7111 is the number at the clock in Colorado. I would set my watch to the second and then go around and set all the other clocks. Now the clock on my cell phone is also synced to WWV (within 1 second) so I just use it to set everything. The "atomic clocks" match the cell phone too.
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    Re: Useless Interesting Facts

    We have one of those clocks and it works as you described ...initially you wonder if it's working at all and then, yeah, next morning it has the correct time.

    I remember when I was a kid in NYC I used to tune into CKLW (Canadian AM station somewhere north or east of Detroit, I believe) at night because they played good rock and roll

    They were a 50Kw station! Maybe still are.

    I believe WWVB is even more powerful ...and with a 60Hz carrier manages to blanket much of North America. Pretty cool!
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    Re: Useless Interesting Facts

    Quote Originally Posted by 68fastback View Post
    They were a 50Kw station! Maybe still are.
    More useless radio factoids...

    In the early days of radio there were carefully located radio stations that were referred to as "clear channel" stations. These stations ran a lower power during the day (typically 10kW for the local coverage but at night cranked up to 50kW. Some stations (mostly Mexico?) ran up to 250kW. The frequency was chosen so that during the night there were no local competitors. They also could go "directional" at the night power, so some in the midwest would orient their coverage north-south to go from Canada to Mexico and in doing so in essence cover most of the country east of the Rockies.

    I remember listening to the Grand Ole Opry on WSM Nashville, one of the early clear channel stations.

    The reference to "clear channel" was adopted by a radio station holding company that is now iHeartMedia.
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