Hourly beeps

[Dan.Strassberg]

Also, WWV... If you've got the time, we've got the time.
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Dan Strassberg
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russ Butler" <songbook2@comcast.net>
To: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>; "Russ Butler"
<songbook2@comcast.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 6:43 PM
Subject: Hourly beeps


> The WTIC Hartford CT hourly sounder "dah-dah-dah-dar" (Letter "V" in Morse
> Code) is still a unique, hourly audible beep in broadcasting, I think.
> Weren't those large old Western Electric studio clocks with the little red
> light bulb on the cream colored dial that lit up on the hour with the
> hourly beep connected to a mechanism that re-set the time each hour
> automatically? The second-hand would flick back to the 12-o'clock position
> when it was re-set with the tone signal and red light to click away for
> another hour.
>
> Then there was/is the WWV National Bureau of Standards "beeps" following
> the automated announcer's time signal and the dull "ticking clock" sound
> each second for the other 59 seconds each minute.
>
> -Russ Butler  songbook2@comcast.net
>
> (...remember the parody "This is W W V, all time, all the time, anytime!")
>