mate.
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> Rob
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> -Original Message-
> From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On
> Behalf Of Steve Rooke
> Sent: 24 February 2011 10:13 AM
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Eart
ecise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Earthquake meets time ball
Many thanks, I appreciate your kind thoughts. If your any good at fixing
power, water, sewerage and can get the ADSL up on my newly re-connected
phone line, as dial-up is really boring, I'd welcome that with
Damn quakes - yet again - I am faced with having to repair the
pendulum on my No. 36 clock. And I had only got it running again for a
couple of weeks after fixing the damage from the September quake!
Not all bad I guess- at least the rack mounted gear keeps going as
long as the batteries hold up
Steve
Living in South Florida and have had two Hurricane eyes actually going over
my house I feel with you. Only difference, we have a warning and if so
choose, can get out of the way.
Bert Kehren Miami
In a message dated 2/24/2011 5:12:52 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
sar10...@gmail.com wr
Many thanks, I appreciate your kind thoughts. If your any good at
fixing power, water, sewerage and can get the ADSL up on my newly
re-connected phone line, as dial-up is really boring, I'd welcome that
with open arms. I do have a petrol generator now but getting it was a
real bun-fight and I was l
In message ,
Stev
e Rooke writes:
Keep smiling Steve, and let us know if we can do anything for you.
--
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Never attribute to malice what can adequ
Shame that the rest of Lyttleton is wrecked!
And I survived this one too, just about, almost had a desktop PC hit
me in the head but I had the presence of mind to knock it away with my
hands. It's pretty grim here but time still goes on.
All the best everyone,
Steve in Quakechurch
On 24/02/2011,
Hi,
You may recall we discussed here some time back about how time was
disseminated in days gone past, and mentioned Time Balls at various
locations from Greenwich onward.
I'd forgotten that there was (and still is) one at Lyttleton, NZ, right
at the epicentre of the big earthquake. This historica
