From: mike 

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:16:12 -0400, "Frank Haber"
 wrote:

>My VCR (live steam only here) is unreliable with RCN's stripped vertical
>interval, so I set it manually.
>
>On other fronts,
>
>It's poltergeists.  My wife and I have near-identical bottom-feeder Moto
>flipphones on T-Mobile.  We're in a three-bar signal area. My phone got a DST
>update.  Hers needed a restart.
>
>Our NIST-shortwave-updated "atomic" kitchen clock magically
updated the time
>Sunday.  Usually, we have to stand it in the kitchen window overnight.
>
>Then it updated again, backwards, sometime yesterday (Monday).  And the
>butcher is fresh out of goat intestines.


One nit:

> Our NIST-shortwave-updated "atomic" kitchen clock


The NIST radio signal that radio-clocks use is 60kHz, which is considered
long-wave.   The shortwave NIST signals (5, 10, 15, 25MHz)
are prone to sky-waves, while the long-wave signal is ground-wave only.
Hence an accurate and reliable propagation delay can be calculated.

http://tf.nist.gov/stations/wwvb.htm

 /m

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