>As a side note to Jinx's "not happening yet" project...how about this
>for a bunch of remote controllable clocks. What if you got a number of
>those radio controlled clocks that sync up to the WWV atomic clock
>signal. I've never looked in one, but perhaps you could detune it
>slightly, and make a low powered transmitter to mimic WWV and take
>remote control of them? I don't know if they broadcast time signals on
>other continents, so perhaps you wouldn't have to detune them at all.
>Comments? Instead of using them as clocks, perhaps you could get them to
>work as remote displays for a countdown timer or something. Granted
>going with an off the shelf RF module and a PIC would probably be
>cheaper, but is all this even possible?
>
>Just an idea that popped into my head.

Not a bad idea. Note that the 60KHz transmissions also are available in the
UK and Europe (somewhere in Germany I believe). I think they all use the
same data format, I do have a PDF somewhere that describes the UK format.

Sorry this is way behind the thread, I have had a week off sick.

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