MFJ 148RC TRIAL

You can tell me the date and five minutes later I’m looking for a calendar.Īlso thought the price was a little high. My recommendations for a better design would be to add dates to both time zones. Other than that it seems to make a nice addition to the ham shack. I have to play around with this some more to see if that makes a difference. I’m thinking it could be because the UTC Daylight savings time is off and PST daylight savings time is on. Occasionally the clocks will be off a split second of each other. At 2300 hours the PST time will synchronize and at 0000 hours the UTC time will then synchronize. Occasionally I may miss a signal due to poor propagation but learned to leave it alone as it will correct itself the next day.Īs you know this clock has two separate times and on my clock they synchronize at different times.(ex. Now the clock receives successful signals 97 % of the time. Only press the Reset Button at time of best propagation (In my case between 23:00 hrs and 0300 hrs)

MFJ 148RC TRIAL

Played around with clock positions and even placed it outside a couple of times to try to get better reception.Īfter some trial and error here is what works best for me in the USA/Pacific Northwest

Hitting the reset button worked sometimes but the following day I would lose the radio signal mark again. (No radio signal mark indicates the receive signal was not successful) I was frustrated for the first week or two after purchase because I couldn’t get clock to reset automatically. I will see if I can get a replacement from MFJ, but since I bought it from Gigiparts, my confidence that this will be possible is not particularly high. I would love to keep this clock prominently displayed, but it is turning out to be a lot of work and human intervention to keep reliable time on my desk. Now I just reset the clock whenever 'it goes stupid' and we are back to the races for a few days until it does it again. Even with a brand new set of batteries, it will do this again within a few days. I replaced the batteries the first few times this did this and decided to do a test. In the beginning, I thought it was eating my batteries, but I took them out and they still showed as very good with plenty of reserves. Appearance-wise it is the perfect ham shack clock!Įventually, the 'Local-side' clock goes blank and the 'UTC side' will only show partial numerals.

Mfj 148rc