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Crosse WS-9611U-IT Atomic Alarm Clock
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The La Crosse WS-9611U-IT
Atomic Alarm Clock with Weather Forecaster
offers lots
of useful time and weather information, plus Oscar Outlook, a weather
boy that dresses in accordance with the weather forecast.
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The La Crosse WS-9611U-IT titanium gray with silver trim around the display. It is fairly
compact at about 5 inches wide and 3 1/2 inches tall.
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Starting with the upper
left of the WS-9611U-IT, we have an atomic clock display. When the
radio tower icon is present, the clock is receiving WWVB
radio transmissions*,
so you know the clock will be accurate to a fraction of
a second. On the first line of the display,
current time will be displayed.
By pressing the
"set" button, the second line of
the display can be toggled between weekday, month and
day; month, day and year; or seconds and alarm time. An alarm icon
displays when the alarm is enabled.
Below the time display
are displays for sunrise/sunset time, and the phase of
the moon displayed by one of 12 icons. By pressing the snooze button on the top of the
clock, the sunrise/sunset time display can be
toggled between sunrise time, sunset time, or sun
duration. The times are based on selection of one of
99 US and Canadian cities.
In the center of the
display is a weather forecast display made up of a
weather icon, a weather tendency arrow, and Oscar
Outlook, the weather boy. Depending on barometric
pressure trends and outside temperature, these elements
will display one of 15 displays. The icon will
display sunny, partly cloudy, clouds with rain, or
clouds with snow. The arrow will indicate the
likelihood of the weather getting better or worse.
Oscar outlook will dress appropriately for the weather
forecast, with outfits ranging from swimming trunks to a
coat, hat and scarf. In addition, he may be
accompanied by a beach chair, an umbrella, or a snow
man.
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On the right, indoor
temperature and humidity, and outdoor temperature are
displayed. Outdoor temperature is sensed by an outdoor
sensor and transmitted from up to 330 feet away. The
WS-9611U-IT can display up to 3 remote locations with
the use of additional optional sensors, one TX29U-IT
sensor is included with the unit. By pressing the
MIN/MAX button, minimum and maximum indoor temperature
and humidity readings since the last manual reset are
displayed. In addition, minimum and maximum outdoor
temperature readings are displayed for the selected
remote, along with time and date of reception.
The WS-9611U-IT is a fairly compact
unit at about 5 inches wide, 3 1/2 inches tall, and 1
inch deep. It has a flip out table stand, or can
be hung on a wall. The LCD display has momentary
LED backlighting that goes on when any button is pushed,
and turns off automatically. The
daily alarm function has a snooze function with
programmable length from off to 30 minutes in 5 minute
increments. Digit sizes are about
3/8 inch for time, temperatures and humidity, 1/4 inch
for date, and 3/16 for sunrise/sunset time. Please note
that with all this information displayed on a fairly
compact unit, the digits are on the small side. This
unit may not be suitable for someone with marginal
vision, especially if it used as an alarm clock, where
the user may not be wearing their glasses.
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Features and Functions:
- Weather-Man Forecast Icon Based on
Changing Barometric Pressure
- WWVB Radio-controlled time with manual
setting option
- Time reception ON/OFF (user selectable)
- 12/24-hour time display
- Automatic daylight saving time (DST)
updating
- DST ON/OFF (daylight saving time)
- Time zone option ±12 hours
- Year, month, date, weekday calendar
display
- Crescendo alarm with snooze function
- Weather tendency indicator
- Temperature display with MIN/MAX
records and time and date of reception
- Indoor and outdoor temperature display
in ºF or ºC
- Indoor humidity data display as RH%
with MIN/MAX records
- Can receive up to 3 remote
temperature/humidity sensors
- Sun rise and sun set for 99 selected US
and Canada cities
- Moon phase
- LCD contrast selectable
- LED backlight
- Low battery indicator
- Wall hanging or table standing
Specifications:
| Temperature
measuring range: |
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Indoor: |
14.2°F to
+139.8°F with 0.2°F resolution
(-10ºC to +59.9ºC with 0.1ºC resolution)
(“OF.L” displayed if outside this range) |
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Outdoor: |
-39.8°F to
+139.8°F with 0.2°F resolution
(-39.9ºC to +59.9ºC with 0.1ºC resolution)
(“OF.L” displayed if outside this range) |
| Relative
humidity measuring range: |
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Indoor: |
1% to 99%
with 1% resolution (displays “- -” when
lower than 1 %; displays "99" % if higher
than 99 %) |
| Temperature
checking interval: |
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Indoor: |
every 15
seconds |
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Outdoor: |
every 15
seconds |
| Humidity
checking interval: |
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Indoor: |
every 20
seconds |
| Transmission
range : |
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up to 330
feet (100 meters) in free air, range will be reduced
somewhat by walls |
| Power
consumption: |
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Wireless
Weather Station : 2 x AA (Alkaline batteries
recommended) |
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Wireless
Temperature Sensor : 2 x AA (Alkaline batteries
recommended) |
| Battery
life: |
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Approximately
24 months |
| Dimensions
(H x L x D) |
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Wireless
Weather Station : 3.5 x 5 x 1.2 inches (92.5 x 124.3 x
28.4 mm) |
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Wireless
Temperature Sensor : 5 x 1.5 x 1 inches (128 x 40 x 22
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*The
WS-9611U-IT projection clock calibrates
itself to the world's most accurate clock every night by
receiving WWVB 60 kHz radio transmissions. These
transmissions contain time information from the U.S.
atomic clock source, operated by the U.S. Commerce
Department and located near Boulder, Colorado. A radio
tower and waves icon to the left of the time in the LCD
panel indicates successful reception of the
time-synchronization signal.
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Note:
This is an "atomic" clock. Atomic (or radio controlled) clocks
receive a radio signal to set themselves. Like any radio receiver,
however, they may not be able to receive the signal if they are in a
building with a lot of steel in the structure, near computers or other
electrical equipment that may generate interference, or if the weather
is unsuitable. The signal they receive does not propagate well during
the day. That's the nature of the signal, not the clock. These clocks
are designed to catch the signal when they can, generally in the middle
of the night, calibrate themselves, and then run quite accurately for
days until they can catch another signal. When you first put batteries
in the clock, it will most likely not set itself until the middle of the
night. That's normal. By morning, weather permitting, it should be
correct. Under less than ideal conditions, signal reception and
calibration can take a few days. Also, daylight saving time changes may
not be made the first night if the location and weather are not
favorable.
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If the order
button is there, but the shopping cart page indicates that there
are no units available, then we are temporarily out of stock.
The item should be available in a day or two. Our
inventory control system tries it's best to keep us from
allowing the sale of something we don't have on the shelf.
If there is no
order button, most likely there are bigger problems with
availability. We may be out of stock for more than a few
days.
For shipping time estimates, please see the Fedex web site at www.fedex.com.
Your package will be shipped from zip code 60544. Keep in mind, Fedex travel days do not include
weekends or holidays.
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