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W9CW
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Rating: 5/5
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Oct 28, 2003 21:12
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Great Watch & Value
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Time owned: 3 to 6 months
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I purchased my Timex Internet Messenger watch six months ago, and couldn't be more pleased with the accuracy and reliability. I think I paid around $35 for the watch. It included a free 1 year SkyTel paging service, but I chose not to activate it. If I would have activated the service, it would function as a pager and allows e-mail messages sent to the watch. However, even without activating the paging service, it sends free news, sports, entertainment, and weather updates to the watch from the SkyTel paging services. The time is constantly being set by SkyTel's Flex system through local cell towers, and it's accurate, and traceable, to WWV. The watch uses a standard 675 zinc-air hearing aid battery, and the battery lasts around two to three months. When it fails, simply install a new battery, and the clock fully syncs to the FlexTime signal from the cell system, in a minute or so, and everything's set! It couldn't be easier. I've owned Atomic Watches before, and this is a much better system as the signal strength from the local cell system is always very strong. One heck of a watch for very little money.
Don Allen W9CW
Urbana, IL
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N9EYL
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Rating: 5/5
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Jul 4, 2002 12:22
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By far outperforms Atomic Clocks
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Time owned: 3 to 6 months
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I own numerous Atomic clocks from various manufactures such as Radio Shack, Atomix, Zeit and Lacrosse. I have also used GPS and of course WWV.
But my problem with most Atomic clocks is they normally only set themselves once a night if propagation is good. And here in Indianapolis sometimes they can go for days without resychronizing with WWVB. Yes, some are better than others. But when I was out on the East Coast in New Jersey a week at a time without resychronizing was not uncommon. I have had my Lacrosse be off as much as 45 seconds with no way of correcting it!
Anyway about the Beepwear, put the battery in, set the time zone and within 5 minutes it will set itself. EVERYTIME! ANYTIME! It even works in the concrete steel rebar basement that I work in surrounded by wires and electrical noise. Forget about that with ANY atomic clock!
It can also ignore DST if you need to, like here in Indianapolis. Some of my Atomic clocks will and some won't. Also, I get UTC time and date at the push of a button. You could set it to show UTC and give you local at the push of a button.
You can also program the receiver to come on and go off for any portion of the day. Normally the the receiver would stay on during the normal Business day and I guess that might be hard on the batteries. Did I mention that it also picks up yahoo news broadcasts too?(Stocks,Weather,Sports,Top Story)
It is built like a Timex! ;) And it has super back lighting. It also has the ability for multiple single,daily,weekly,monthly,yearly alarms.
One other minor point, it is also a pager but I never saw the need to activate it.
Hands down great dead on accurate watch with six batteries delivered for 29.00!
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