> FWIW, I have a digital wristwatch that I didn't set for > about four months or maybe five. I would just check it > every few days against WWV to see how far off it was. > By the time I set it, it was about 17 seconds fast > (gain of less than 0.2 second per day!). One reason I > picked this one was because the numerals for the > seconds are the same size as minutes and hours. ... > This watch cost me all of $7.00 at Wal-Mart. That's > pretty accurate time for a very low price, so I can > recommend it (the cheap digital wristwatch idea) to > others. Obviously for flash timings or attempts at > position measurements, I use a good stopwatch > calibrated with WWV. But for knowing when to look, my > seven-dollar wristwatch has been a very good deal. How many lap times can this particular stopwatch hold? ------------------------------ Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com 39.706d N 75.683d W http://www.geocities.com/tlj18_99/ 5 hours behind UT (-5) ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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