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From: Randall Morrow
Date: 2015 Sep 7, 12:52 -0700
I had been getting poor results recently, after a 6 month hiatus from sight taking. Usually errors were under 1 minute but had risen to 2-4 minutes. I re-calibrated my home made precision levels and errors did not improve. I did index correction checks with the sun and made sure screws were tight. Eventually I dug out my older Casio Wave-Ceptor watch and compared it to my newer model. The watch band broke so I replaced it, saving the works. I just checked these against the national time keeping site and found the older watch was correct. The newer watch was 4-5 seconds fast. Has anyone else had this happen?My assumtion was that these "atomic" watches always reset themselves with radio signals nightly. It turns out the time error pretty much eliminated my sight discrepacies.
Kind regards, Randy
